Interior landscapes: Personal perspectives on professional lives: The first generation of librarians at the Illinois Library School, 1893-1907

From 1893 to 1907, 361 students comprised the first classes entering the Illinois Library School when Katharine Lucinda Sharp was director. Three hundred and forty-nine of these students were women. As the first generation of college-educated women seeking a career in the Progressive Era, they faced many personal pressures while obtaining their library training and establishing their careers. Although these women were committed to their new profession, societal and personal pressures often made achievement difficult. Among these pressures were family obligations, marriage, physical and mental health, and extenuating financial circumstances, which often forced them to abandon school plans, change jobs, or re-enter the job market after a long absence.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Library and Information Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Date dc:date

10000-01-01

Author dc:creator

• Cardman, Elizabeth R.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Krummel, Donald W.

• Library Science
• Women's Studies

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1996 Cardman, Elizabeth R.

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

9780591197532
AAI9712212
(UMI)AAI9712212

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/19849