SI 75th Anniversary

Students and faculty in the first summer program in library methods	1909
		1915	U-M General Library, built in 1883, razed in 1915. Some of the stacks in this building formed the core of the new library (now the Hatcher Library) whose development William Warner Bishop oversaw.
U-M Regents vote to create Department of Library Science with William Warner Bishop as chair	1926
		1926	American Library Association accredits U-M library science program
1928 class picnic with Professor Carl Joeckel	1928
		1938	Library Science Alumni Society inaugurates Margaret Mann Award to honor one of the Department's first three faculty memebers as she retires
Rudolph Gjelsness succeeds William Warner Bishop as department chair	1940
		1948	ABLS program discontinued and PhD program launched
Wallace J. Bonk named chair of Department	1964
		1967	Russell Bidlack named chair of Department
Department moves from General Library to West Quadrangle Winchell House	1968
		1969	Department becomes School of Library Science with Russell Bidlack as dean
Gwendolyn Cruzat hired, School's first minority tenure-track faculty member	1971
		1980	Library Science technology lab opens
Robert M. Warner named dean	1985
		1986	School becomes School of Information and Library Studies
School moves to present West Hall home	1988
		1992	Daniel E. Atkins named dean
School awarded $4.3 million W.K. Kellogg Foundation grant to remake itself for the 21st century; second $5 million grant in 1996 supports practical learning and service	1994
		1995	Internet Public Library, world's first virtual public library, opens online as a SILS course project
School rechartered as School of Information with broadened mission	1996
		2000	John L. King named dean

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