Special Libraries Association Education Division
About
Founded as a division in June 1974 at the Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association in Toronto, the Education Division had its beginnings in the "Education and Library Service Section" in 1948 which was later dissolved in 1955. Then seventeen years later, with renewed interest on the part of a few education libraries' leaders around the country, yet another attempt was made at the Pittsburgh Annual Conference in June 1973, culminating in the formation of Education Division in 1974.
The division was mandated to address the needs of "university education libraries, federal education libraries, school district professional libraries, education association libraries, textbook publishers, AV media publishers" and a wide variety of other special libraries with some education dimension.
The chair and several past chairs celebrated at the division's twenty-fifth anniversary in Philadelphia on June 13, 2000. They included Charles Missar, John D'Amicantonio, Suzanne Brown, Hope Tillman, Karen McQuillen, Debbie Bogenschutz, Maxine Goldsmith, Martha Wilding, Kamla Motihar, and Jacqueline Snider.
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