Notes on the Evaluation of Library Schools

Abstract

The paper reviews the eight (seven published) efforts to secure a relative evaluation of the accredited North American library schools, and reproduces the rankings of each effort. The paper discusses the pros and cons of different evaluative methods, compares the results of the eight evaluations, and finds that there is a remarkable consistency in the rankings of the top five to ten schools; conversely, 40 schools (about fifty-eight per cent of all) appear on no list, 47 never appear in as high a ranking as tenth, and 41 never appear in as high a ranking as fifteenth.

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