SLIS 25th Anniversary Display Page 12
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Title
SLIS 25th Anniversary Display Page 12
Subject
MLIS
SLIS
SLIS
Description
Article about the beginning of SLIS classes
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
FIMS Graduate Library
Date
Winter 1992
Format
TIFF
Language
English
Identifier
Page 12_Display.tif
Date Created
1967-09
Is Part Of
SLIS 25th Anniversary Display
Spatial Coverage
SLIS Building
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Text
SEPTEMBER 1967
MOVE TO FORMER SLIS BUILDING. FIRST ORIENTATION SEMINARS COMMENCE ON SEPTEMBER 18 AFTER A WEEK’S POSTPONEMENT CAUSED BY BUILDING DELAYS. ENROLMENT - 40 FULL-TIME AND 20 PART-TIME STUDENTS.
Osborn chose a radical curriculum for SLIS, and to support the program he wanted to set up an experimental and demonstration library that would go beyond the provision of typical library services. It would "pioneer in having a computer-usable classification system", and which would use a cataloguing system involving "new principles of description". As a result of its non-standard systems, the SLIS Library was unable to take part in the automation and information networking that was to occur between the
main university library, its branches, and the libraries of the affiliated colleges. The name of the new school, School of Library and Information Science, recognized the growing awareness of the importance of both the technical and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing field of information science, as well as the close association of this field with modern methods of storage and retrieval of information.
MOVE TO FORMER SLIS BUILDING. FIRST ORIENTATION SEMINARS COMMENCE ON SEPTEMBER 18 AFTER A WEEK’S POSTPONEMENT CAUSED BY BUILDING DELAYS. ENROLMENT - 40 FULL-TIME AND 20 PART-TIME STUDENTS.
Osborn chose a radical curriculum for SLIS, and to support the program he wanted to set up an experimental and demonstration library that would go beyond the provision of typical library services. It would "pioneer in having a computer-usable classification system", and which would use a cataloguing system involving "new principles of description". As a result of its non-standard systems, the SLIS Library was unable to take part in the automation and information networking that was to occur between the
main university library, its branches, and the libraries of the affiliated colleges. The name of the new school, School of Library and Information Science, recognized the growing awareness of the importance of both the technical and theoretical aspects of the rapidly developing field of information science, as well as the close association of this field with modern methods of storage and retrieval of information.
Original Format
paper
Citation
Unknown, “SLIS 25th Anniversary Display Page 12,” Special Collections, accessed October 31, 2025, https://archive.fims.uwo.ca/specialcollections/items/show/410.