Davis, Donald G. (chemia).

Professor Emeritus Donald Gordon Don Davis, Jr., taught from 1971 until his retirement in 2006 at the University of Texas at Austin’s Graduate School in Library and Information Science (GSLIS), renamed the School of Information in 2002, and the Department of History. He earned a Ph.D. in Library Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1972 and a M.A.T.S. from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in 1996. Throughout his career, Davis actively participated on numerous committees and round tables of library and historical associations, including the American Library Association, the Association for the Bibliography of History, Association for Library and Information Science Education, Fellowship of Christian Librarians and Information Specialists, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions, and the Texas Library Association, among others. Davis wrote The Association of American Library Schools, 1915-1968: An Analytical History (1974) and Bibliography and Chronology of Texas Library History, 1685-2000 (2002). From 1977 to 2005, he edited the Journal of Library History, now Libraries & the Cultural Record, and co-authored 14 books.

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Davis, Don. Donald G. Davis, Jr. School of Information, UT Austin. http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~dgdavis/ (accessed July 19, 2010).