Overview

Focuses mainly on Bishop's activities from 1902 to 1941 as a leader in professional movements and organizations in the United States and abroad, advisor to philanthropic foundations in their library-related activities, scholar, administrator, library educator and author.

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...Scarecrow Press is to be commended for continuing to produce its series of biographies that, as a whole, provide a perspective on individuals who have contributed to our history and should, over time, help improve the quality of biographies of librarians.... -- Norman Stevens * Wilson Library Bulletin * ...clearly deserved to be printed when it was written a quarter century ago, and it is a pleasure now to be able to welcome it to our body of published scholarship where it can be more widely read.... Perhaps others can even now find inspiration in Dr. Bishop by seeing him through the clear and perceptive eyes of his excellent biographer. -- David Kaser * Journal of Academic Librarianship * A good, well-written study; an interesting read about a major figure in world librarianship. -- J. Periam Danton * L&C *

A good, well-written study; an interesting read about a major figure in world librarianship.--J. Periam Danton L&C

Author Information

Glenn Sparks (BA, MA, MLS, PhD) is a professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, The University of Texas at Austin. His other publications are related to the history of the American library profession, biography of librarians, library and information science education, and management.

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