A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915

It was written by Jim Neeley, the fairly recently retired head of the Spahr Engineering Library at KU, and was published late last year in the journal Libraries and the Cultural Record. A very interesting piece. While the focus in on how an engineering library started at KU, many of the forces that led to its creation were more generally present elsewhere, and led to a blossoming of engineering libraries in the late 19th and early 20th century, (a few examples from and ties to other institutions are offered). Jim also makes mention in a number of places of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, which was founded in 1893 and later morphed into ASEE. Finally, in the appendix there are a handful of links to pages at other institutions related to the histories of their engineering libraries. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lac/v043/43.4.neeley.html