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A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915
Neeley, James D.
Neeley, James D.
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Abstract
This article investigates the influence of developments in engineering
education on the establishment of departmental libraries for engineering
in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American universities. A
case study is made of the University of Kansas and Frank O. Marvin, a
former president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education
and dean of the university’s School of Engineering when its library
opened in 1909. While national forces spanning the profession supplied
the necessary preconditions for Kansas’s library, Marvin was the local
catalyst. His beliefs about what attributes the successful engineer should
possess and how a liberal education could produce those attributes made
the library inevitable.
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2008
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University of Texas Press
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Library, Marvin, Frank O. (Frank Olin), 1852-1915, Art collections, Engineering libraries—united states—history, Engineering libraries—united states—surveys, Academic libraries—departmental libraries—history, Science and technology libraries—united states—history, University of kansas. libraries—history, University of kansas. engineering library—history, University of kansas. school of engineering—history, Engineering—study and teaching—kansas—lawrence—history, Engineering—study and teaching—united states—history, Engineers—education—united states—history, Engineering teachers—kansas —lawrence—biography, University of kansas—faculty—biography, Engineers—united states—biography, Blake, Lucien I. (lucien ira), 1853-1916, Haworth, Erasmus, 1855-1932, Raymond, Frederic N. (Frederic Newton), 1873-1961, University of kansas. libraries—catalogs—history, Library buildings—kansas—lawrence—history, Engineering management—history, Engineering and the humanities—history, Engineering and the arts—history, Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Seminar method in teaching—engineering—kansas—history, Technical writing—study and teaching—kansas—history, Technical literature—history, Technical literature—study and teaching—history, Engineering—research—kansas—history, Dissertations, academic—technical—kansas—history, Engineering schools—united states—competition—history, Columbia university. engineering library—history, Cornell university. engineering library—history, Massachusetts institute of technology. engineering library—history, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. engineering library—history, University of Wisconsin–Madison. engineering library—history, University of Michigan. engineering library—history, University of Pennsylvania. engineering library—history, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. engineering library—history, Iowa state university. engineering library—history, University of Missouri–Columbia. engineering library—history, Society for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.), Society for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.). committee on technical books for libraries, Allegheny college (Meadville, PA.). library—history, Tingley, Jeremiah, 1826-1915
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Libraries & the Cultural Record, Vol. 43, No. 4 (2008): 411-439. URL: http://muse.jhu.edu.www2.lib.ku.edu:2048/journals/libraries_and_culture/v043/43.4.neeley.pdf