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Lester Asheim

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#1606

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#8492

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Masters Library Science University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Lester Eugene Asheim was an American librarian and scholar of library science and film history. He was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and the University of North Carolina and held positions in the American Library Association . He was included among the "100 most important leaders we had in the 20th century" by the American Library Association.

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Lester Asheim's Published Works

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: From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947) (252)
: Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula Stories as Art and Popular Culture (1977) (225)
: The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (1988) (151)
: No Sense of Place: The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior (1986) (124)
: Screening out the Past: The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry (1982) (86)
Content Analysis in Communication Research. Bernard Berelson (1952) (52)
Librarianship in the developing countries (1966) (45)
Selection and Censorship: A Reappraisal. (1983) (26)
EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION, THE NEXT TEN YEARS. (1965) (25)
Librarians as Professionals (1979) (19)
: The Culture and Control of Expertise: Toward a Sociological Understanding of Librarianship (1989) (15)
: Hollywood Looks at Its Audience: A Report of Film Audience Research (1951) (13)
A Philosophy of Librarianship (1951) (9)
The preparation and use of library manpower. (1972) (6)
From book to film : a comparative analysis of the content of selected novels and the motion pictures based upon them (1949) (5)
: Mass Communication: Television, Radio, Film, Press: The Media and Their Practice in the United States of America (1957) (5)
From Book to Film: Simplification (1951) (5)
Research in Mass Communication and Adult Reading (1957) (4)
The humanities and the library (1957) (4)
Ortega Revisited (1982) (4)
The Film and the Zeitgeist (1947) (4)
From Book to Film: Mass Appeals (1951) (4)
Reading and Successful Living: The Family-School Partnership (1983) (3)
Education for Librarianship (1955) (3)
: Reading Research and Librarianship: A History and Analysis (1983) (3)
The humanities and the library : problems in the interpretation, evaluation and use of library materials (1957) (3)
As much to learn as to teach : essays in honor of Lester Asheim (1979) (2)
The Foundation for the Dialogue (1984) (2)
Limited in Scope: A History of the School of Library Service, Columbia University (1954) (2)
The Future of the Book : implications of the newer developments in communication : papers presented before the twentieth annual conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, June 20-24, 1955 (1955) (2)
A Hard Look at Soft Covers (1958) (2)
From Book to Film: Summary (1952) (2)
Introduction: New Problems in Plotting the Future of the Book (1955) (2)
Library manpower: needs and utilization (1967) (2)
From Book to Film: The Note of Affirmation (1951) (2)
The Core Curriculum. (1978) (1)
Freedom versus Suppression and Censorship. Charles H. Busha (1973) (1)
Movies: A Psychological Study. Martha Wolfenstein , Nathan Leites (1950) (1)
Resource Sharing of Libraries in Developing Countries. Proceedings of the 1977 IFLA/UNESCO Pre-Session Seminar for Librarians from Developing Countries, Antwerp University, August 30-September 4, 1977. H. D. L. Vervliet (1980) (1)
: The Flight from Reason: Essays on Intellectual Freedom in the Academy, the Press, and the Library (1976) (1)
Readability: An Appraisal of Research and Application (Book Review) (1958) (1)
Librarianship: A Third World Perspective. Rosario Gassol de Horowitz (1989) (1)
A forum on the Public Library Inquiry (1970) (1)
Report on the Conference on Reading Development (1951) (1)
Differentiating the media : proceedings of the thirty-seventh annual conference of the Graduate Library School, August 5-6, 1974 (1975) (1)
Research on the Reading of Adults (1953) (1)
Standards for Library Services: An International Survey. F. N. Withers (1976) (1)
: The First Freedom Today: Critical Issues Relating to Censorship and to Intellectual Freedom (1985) (1)
: Forbidden Books in American Public Libraries, 1876-1939: A Study in Cultural Change (1985) (1)
Persistent issues in American librarianship : papers presented before the Twenty-fifth Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, August 15-17, 1960 (1961) (1)
A forum on the Public Library Inquiry : the Conference at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School, August 8-13, 1949 (1950) (1)
A History of Education for Librarianship in Colombia (1970) (0)
Branch Library Practice. A. G. S. Enser (1952) (0)
: Libraries in Senegal: Continuity and Change in an Emerging Nation (1982) (0)
Books and the Mass Market. Harold K. Guinzburg, Robert W. Frase , Theodore Waller (1954) (0)
Audio-Visual Materials of Instruction. Nelson B. Henry (1950) (0)
The Metropolitan Library. Ralph W. Conant (1973) (0)
Introduction (1961) (0)
Reading in the 1980s. Stephen Graubard (1984) (0)
Louis Round Wilson: Librarian and Administrator. Maurice F. Tauber (1967) (0)
What Do Adults Read? (1956) (0)
Mass Media and Education. Nelson B. Henry (1955) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Volume Information (1978) (0)
Review: Novels into Films by George Bluestone (1958) (0)
Comparative and International Library Science. John F. Harvey (1978) (0)
A Handbook of Comparative Librarianship. S. Simsova , M. Mackee (1975) (0)
The State of the Accredited Library Schools, 1966-67 (1968) (0)
Library Journal Classics. (1993) (0)
The Freedom to Read: Perspective and Program. Richard McKeon , Robert K. Merton , Walter Gellhorn (1957) (0)
Introduction (1975) (0)
Who Owns the Media? (Book Review) (1983) (0)
What Kind of Books? What Kind of Readers? (1949) (0)
The Derivative Art (1958) (0)
Borrowings from the Bristol Library, 1773-1784; A Unique Record of Reading Vogues. Paul Kaufman (1960) (0)
Advances in Librarianship. Vol. 2. Melvin J. Voigt (1972) (0)
Great Books: Panacea or What?Edward A. Fitzpatrick (1953) (0)
Graduate Theses Accepted by Library Schools in the United States, 1951-52 (1952) (0)
Book Review:Book Selection and Censorship: A Study of School and Public Libraries in California. Marjorie Fiske (1960) (0)
Afterword (1955) (0)
New directions in public library development : papers presented before the twenty-second Annual Conference of the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago, June 19-21, 1957 (1957) (0)
Library Science Education for Foreign Students and Their Employment in the United States: Library Science Education for Foreign Students (1975) (0)
Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps. Robert B. Textor (1966) (0)
Books and the Mass Market (1954) (0)
The Anatomy of Censorship. Jay E. Daily (1974) (0)
Authors on Film. Harry M. Geduld (1973) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
Bases of Modern Librarianship: A Study of Library Theory and Practice in Britain, Canada, Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United States. Carl M. White (1965) (0)
Thirty-Seventh Annual Report ALA Committee on Accreditation (1960) (0)
Bernard Berelson (1912-1979) (1980) (0)
Librarianship in Francophone West Africa (1982) (0)
Summary of the Conference (1957) (0)
The Core fo Education for Librarianship (Book Review) (1954) (0)
Leon Carnovsky (1961) (0)
Librarianship in the developing countries / Lester Asheim (1966) (0)
Science and the Mass Media. Hillier Krieghbaum (1968) (0)
A Philosophy of Librarianship. A. Broadfield (1951) (0)

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