Library education -- History, Library education, Libraries 

"Library history is more than an arid academic exercise, and the growth of academic librarianship is in no sense 'arid', but an exciting and satisfying story of the sense of vocation among librarians of the last one hundred years which has helped to nurse the tender flower of librarianship into full professional bloom.

Starting with the first beginnings of formal library courses towards the end of the last century, Mr Bramley plots the often chequered development of professional education up to the present day, when librarianship is established at university level in most leading countries, and when the opportunities of advanced academic status are now offering rich scope for research into both techniques and philosophies of the subject

Mr Bramley describes the history of library education in the UK, USA and commonwealth countries — India, Australia and South Africa — contrasting the different movements and showing how a common approach to further educational development is becoming a possibility. His book is both informed and extremely readable, and is a valuable contribution to the field which it surveys."--Book jacket. 

131 pages : 23 cm. 

Includes index.