TY - JOUR
AU - Carl A. Hanson
AB - During John Cotton Dana's forty-year career as librarian, fundamental changes occurred in librarianship that helped lay the groundwork for information science. Two of those changes, greatly increased access to sources and a utility-driven broadening of the range of materials collected, owed much to Dana. This article posits that librarianship, information science, and related fields were involved in an evolutionary process in which a practical approach to information and its use supplanted an elitist ideology of culture.

BT - Libraries & Culture
IS - 2
LA - English
N2 - During John Cotton Dana's forty-year career as librarian, fundamental changes occurred in librarianship that helped lay the groundwork for information science. Two of those changes, greatly increased access to sources and a utility-driven broadening of the range of materials collected, owed much to Dana. This article posits that librarianship, information science, and related fields were involved in an evolutionary process in which a practical approach to information and its use supplanted an elitist ideology of culture.

PY - 1994
SP - 186
EP - 204
T2 - Libraries & Culture
TI - Access and Utility: John Cotton Dana and the Antecedents of Information Science, 1889-1929
VL - 29
ER -