University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

What's History Got to Do with It?: Seventy Years of Historical Dissertation Research at the School of Information Sciences of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Smith, Mikki; D'Arpa, Christine

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Title
What's History Got to Do with It?: Seventy Years of Historical Dissertation Research at the School of Information Sciences of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Author(s)
  • Smith, Mikki
  • D'Arpa, Christine
Issue Date
2017
Keyword(s)
  • Historical research
  • Historical topics
  • Historical methods
  • Primary sources
Abstract
The School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has a long tradition of historical research at the doctoral level, facilitated by faculty and the extensive resources available on campus, including the archives of the American Library Association. In this paper the authors identify dissertations completed over the course of the seventy-year history of the doctoral program in library and information science (LIS) at Illinois that focus on historical topics, employ historical methods, and/or engage extensively with primary sources. The authors analyze those dissertation topics by decade and category within the context of the School of Information Sciences' history and shifts in LIS.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 65 (4). Spring 2017
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/103583
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2017.0019
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Copyright 2017 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 65 (4) Spring 2017: Spanning the Information Sciences : A Celebration Marking Seventy Years of the Doctoral Program in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign PRIMARY
Library Trends 65 (4) Spring 2017: Spanning the Information Sciences : A Celebration Marking Seventy Years of the Doctoral Program in the School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Edited by Alistair Black and Emily J.M. Knox.