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Ernest Cushing Richardson
Lewis C. Branscomb
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Description for Ernest Cushing Richardson
Hardback. Richardson was one of the foremost library scholars and innovators of early librarianship in the U.S. Appendix and bibliography. Num Pages: 160 pages, 1ill. BIC Classification: BG; GL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 166 x 15. Weight in Grams: 331.
Richardson was one of the foremost library scholars and innovators of early librarianship in this country. His academic background included earning degrees from Amherst College and Hartford Theological Seminary as well as an honorary masters from Princeton and an honorary doctorate from Washington and Jefferson College. A prodigious worker, he wrote over 200 books, periodicals, and other works. Classification, Theoretical and Practical and Some Aspects of Cooperative Cataloging were among his most influential books. He worked unceasingly to strengthen research library collections in the United States. His efforts in this area took him to Europe on innumerable occasions to ... Read more
Richardson was one of the foremost library scholars and innovators of early librarianship in this country. His academic background included earning degrees from Amherst College and Hartford Theological Seminary as well as an honorary masters from Princeton and an honorary doctorate from Washington and Jefferson College. A prodigious worker, he wrote over 200 books, periodicals, and other works. Classification, Theoretical and Practical and Some Aspects of Cooperative Cataloging were among his most influential books. He worked unceasingly to strengthen research library collections in the United States. His efforts in this area took him to Europe on innumerable occasions to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810826724
SKU
V9780810826724
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Lewis C. Branscomb
Lewis C. Branscomb (AB, Duke; ABLS, MLS, University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of Chicago) is former Director of Libraries and now Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University. He has edited The Case for Faculty Status for Academic Librarians and published several pieces about Richardson in library journals and biographical anthologies.
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