Education
M.S.L.S., Syracuse University, 1950 Bachelor of Surgery, Chemistry City College of New York
Library of Congress Internship in Science and Technology, 1950-1953.
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Herbert White
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A recipient of the American Library Association Melvil Dewey Award, White is the primary author of at least nine books, and the author of an estimated 200 articles in the professional literature of Library Science. He is a major contributor to current theory and understanding of the role of the Special library in contemporary American organizations. Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Bloomington campus, Indiana University.
Executive Director of National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Scientific and Technical Information Facility at College Park, Maryland 1964-1968 Program Manager for International Business Machines Corporation"s Corporate Technical Information Center (1960’s) President of Special Libraries Association, 1970 Professor at Indiana University, 1975 Dean of Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, 1980.
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Herb White is the author of more than 9 books and 200 articles on topics of library administration, supervision and library automation. He has for many years been a frequent speaker and presenter at seminars and workshops. Now retired, he continues adjunct teaching at the University of Arizona, writing and lecturing. White is also widely known among professional librarians in the United States as author of the popular "White Papers" column published in Library Journal for more than a decade. Many of these popular columns were collected and republished in "Librarianship Quo Vadis?" (Libraries Unlimited: 2000).
