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The American Library Association is formed.
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Melvil Dewey establishes the Columbia School of Library Economy
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Prior to the full-time program, a six-week summer course of library training was conducted to help prepare the untrained librarians of the Seattle area and the Pacific Northwest. (ischool.uw.edu)
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Vandevar Bush publishes "As We May Think" in Atlantic Magazine. Saracevic pinpoints this article as "the impetus for the development of information science."
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The end of WW2 is often cited as the beginning of the "information explosion."
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Calvin Mooers coins the term "Information Retrieval."
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Jesse Shera forms the Center for Documentation and Communication Research at the library school of Western Reserve University. Shera's model joined library school curriculum with Information Science.
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Predating the wide use of the term "information science," this conference, held in Washington DC, was attended by 1000 delegates from 25 countries.
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Alan Pritchard coins the term "bibliometrics."
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UW's School of Librarianship becomes The Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
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The first Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) is held, brings together work in Information Retrieval.
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Marcia Bates publishes "The Invisible Substrate of Information Science."
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" The iSchools organization was established, a cluster of academic programmes covering a wide range of disciplinary approaches to the study of information phenomena, behaviour, policies and technologies" (Cronin)
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Blaise Cronin publishes "The Waxing and Waning of a Field: Reflections of Information Studies Education."