A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915

Neeley, James D.

dc.contributor.author	Neeley, James D.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-29T20:29:34Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-29T20:29:34Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	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
dc.identifier.issn	1932-4855
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5441
dc.description.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.
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	University of Texas Press
dc.subject	Library
dc.subject	Marvin, Frank O. (Frank Olin), 1852-1915
dc.subject	Art collections
dc.subject	Engineering libraries—united states—history
dc.subject	Engineering libraries—united states—surveys
dc.subject	Academic libraries—departmental libraries—history
dc.subject	Science and technology libraries—united states—history
dc.subject	University of kansas. libraries—history
dc.subject	University of kansas. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of kansas. school of engineering—history
dc.subject	Engineering—study and teaching—kansas—lawrence—history
dc.subject	Engineering—study and teaching—united states—history
dc.subject	Engineers—education—united states—history
dc.subject	Engineering teachers—kansas —lawrence—biography
dc.subject	University of kansas—faculty—biography
dc.subject	Engineers—united states—biography
dc.subject	Blake, Lucien I. (lucien ira), 1853-1916
dc.subject	Haworth, Erasmus, 1855-1932
dc.subject	Raymond, Frederic N. (Frederic Newton), 1873-1961
dc.subject	University of kansas. libraries—catalogs—history
dc.subject	Library buildings—kansas—lawrence—history
dc.subject	Engineering management—history
dc.subject	Engineering and the humanities—history
dc.subject	Engineering and the arts—history
dc.subject	Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art
dc.subject	Seminar method in teaching—engineering—kansas—history
dc.subject	Technical writing—study and teaching—kansas—history
dc.subject	Technical literature—history
dc.subject	Technical literature—study and teaching—history
dc.subject	Engineering—research—kansas—history
dc.subject	Dissertations, academic—technical—kansas—history
dc.subject	Engineering schools—united states—competition—history
dc.subject	Columbia university. engineering library—history
dc.subject	Cornell university. engineering library—history
dc.subject	Massachusetts institute of technology. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Wisconsin–Madison. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Michigan. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Pennsylvania. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Nebraska–Lincoln. engineering library—history
dc.subject	Iowa state university. engineering library—history
dc.subject	University of Missouri–Columbia. engineering library—history
dc.subject	Society for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.)
dc.subject	Society for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.). committee on technical books for libraries
dc.subject	Allegheny college (Meadville, PA.). library—history
dc.subject	Tingley, Jeremiah, 1826-1915
dc.title	A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915
dc.type	Article
kusw.kuauthor	Neeley, James D.
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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