Neeley, James D.2009-08-292009-08-292008Libraries & 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.pdf1932-4855https://hdl.handle.net/1808/5441This 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.en-USLibraryMarvin, Frank O. (Frank Olin), 1852-1915Art collectionsEngineering libraries—united states—historyEngineering libraries—united states—surveysAcademic libraries—departmental libraries—historyScience and technology libraries—united states—historyUniversity of kansas. libraries—historyUniversity of kansas. engineering library—historyUniversity of kansas. school of engineering—historyEngineering—study and teaching—kansas—lawrence—historyEngineering—study and teaching—united states—historyEngineers—education—united states—historyEngineering teachers—kansas —lawrence—biographyUniversity of kansas—faculty—biographyEngineers—united states—biographyBlake, Lucien I. (lucien ira), 1853-1916Haworth, Erasmus, 1855-1932Raymond, Frederic N. (Frederic Newton), 1873-1961University of kansas. libraries—catalogs—historyLibrary buildings—kansas—lawrence—historyEngineering management—historyEngineering and the humanities—historyEngineering and the arts—historyHelen Foresman Spencer Museum of ArtSeminar method in teaching—engineering—kansas—historyTechnical writing—study and teaching—kansas—historyTechnical literature—historyTechnical literature—study and teaching—historyEngineering—research—kansas—historyDissertations, academic—technical—kansas—historyEngineering schools—united states—competition—historyColumbia university. engineering library—historyCornell university. engineering library—historyMassachusetts institute of technology. engineering library—historyUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. engineering library—historyUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison. engineering library—historyUniversity of Michigan. engineering library—historyUniversity of Pennsylvania. engineering library—historyUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln. engineering library—historyIowa state university. engineering library—historyUniversity of Missouri–Columbia. engineering library—historySociety for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.)Society for the promotion of engineering education (u.s.). committee on technical books for librariesAllegheny college (Meadville, PA.). library—historyTingley, Jeremiah, 1826-1915ArticleopenAccess