Herbert S. White is Dean Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, School of Library &
Information Science, Indiana University

Indiana University

Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...

, and Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona

University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is a land-grant and space-grant public institution of higher education and research located in Tucson, Arizona, United States. The University of Arizona was the first university in the state of Arizona, founded in 1885...

, Tucson. A recipient of the ALA Melvil Dewey

Melvil Dewey

Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey was an American librarian and educator, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system of library classification, and a founder of the Lake Placid Club....

 Award, White is the primary author of at least nine books, a contributor to
many more, and the author of an estimated 200 articles in the professional literature of Library Science

Library science

Library science is an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary field that applies the practices, perspectives, and tools of management, information technology, education, and other areas to libraries; the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources; and the...

. He is a major contributor to current theory and understanding of the role of the Special library

Special library

A special library is a term for a library that is neither an academic, school, public or national library. Special libraries include law libraries, news libraries, corporate libraries, museum libraries, and medical libraries and are not usually open to the public for use...

 in contemporary American organizations.

Education

M.S.L.S., Syracuse University, 1950

B.S., Chemistry CCNY

Library of Congress Internship in Science and Technology, 1950–53

Notable achievements

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

Library Journal

Library Journal is a trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey . It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice...

 for more than a decade. Many of these popular columns were collected and republished in "Librarianship Quo Vadis?" (Libraries Unlimited: 2000).

Earlier career

Executive Director of NASA's Scientific and Technical Information Facility at College Park, Maryland

College Park, Maryland

College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, USA. The population was 30,413 at the 2010 census. It is best known as the home of the University of Maryland, College Park, and since 1994 the city has also been home to the "Archives II" facility of the U.S...

 1964-68

Program Manager for IBM's Corporate Technical Information Center (1960’s)

President of Special Libraries Association

Special Libraries Association

Special Libraries Association is an international professional association for library and information professionals working in business, government, law, finance, non-profit, and academic organizations and institutions....

, 1970

Professor at Indiana University, 1975

Dean of Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, 1980

Awarded the title of Distinguished Professor at Indiana University, 1991

American Society for Information Science Award of Merit

External links and references

"Librarianship Quo Vadis" (Libraries Unlimited: 2000): http://books.google.com/books?id=N6740WI7Y6cC

"Introducing Herbert S. White" Current Contents (ISI) #3, January 26, 1972: http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/essays/V1p260y1962-73.pdf


Official Biography at Indiana University: http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/members/white.html


LibraryThing book list (partial): http://www.librarything.com/author/whiteherberts


Bibliography of articles (very partial): http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/w/White:Herbert_S=.html