The Wisconsin Library School at 120: Rediscovering a history of leadership and impact

By Thomas Jilk Drawing on rich historical collections, a team of scholars is rediscovering the people, places, and practices that built today’s Information School. “A librarian should be bigger than the day’s work and its routine,” wrote Mary Emogene Hazeltine, the first head of the Wisconsin …

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