Lester Eugene Asheim

Biography

Lester Eugene Asheim (22 January 1914-1 July 1997) published notable works on book selection,
manpower for librarianship, communication, and international librarianship.

• Born in Spokane, Washington on January 22, 1914.
• Graduated from University of Washington with a B.A.in Librarianship in 1937 and M.A. in Literature, in 1941.
• Worked as a librarian at the US Federal Penitenitay, Washington from 1941 to 1942.
• Received PH.D from University of Chicago in 1949.
• Taught in the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago from 1948 to 1952.
• Served as the dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School from 1952 till 1961.
• Became the director of International relations office for the American Library Association in 1961,
  and then became the director of the ALA's office for library education until 1974.
• Served as a faculty member at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until 1984
• ALISE award for Professional Contribution to Library and Information Science Education.
• Died on July 1, 1997 at Carolina Meadows Retirement home.

Publications

• Library's Public (1949, Co-author, Bernard Berelson).
• Mass Communications (1949).
• Reader in Public Opinion and Communication (1950).
• Public Library Inquiry (1950).
• Core of Education for Librarianship (1954)
• Persistent Issues in American Librarianship (1961).
• Educational Television, the Next Ten Years (1962).
• Librarianship in the Developing Countries (1966).
• Differentiating the Media (1975).
• Trends in Library Education-U.S.A. (1975).
• Not Censorship But Selection
• The Preparation and Use of Library Manpower
• Lester Asheim Papers, 1952, 1956, 1961-1965, 1979

References

• Preliminary Inventory of the Lester Eugene Asheim Papers, 1940s-1990s, Collection Number 4775,
  accessed 27 April 2004.
• Lester Asheim in Cyberspace:A Tribute to Sound Reasoning
• Carolina Archives, accessed 29 April 2004.
• Bowman, John S., The Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography. N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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