1926 - 2012
Russell Shank American Librarian
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Details
| Birthday |
2nd September, 1926
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| Birthplace |
Spokane, Washington
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| Died |
26th June, 2012
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| Place of Death |
Irvine, California, US
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Librarian
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| Occupation |
Librarian
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Russell Shank (September 2, 1926 – June 26, 2012) was an American librarian. Shank studied electrical engineering at the University of Washington and earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1946. He went on to receive a bachelor's in librarianship in 1949, also from the University of Washington. Shank went on to receive a master's in business administration from the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in library science from Columbia University. He served as an assistant university librarian at the University of California Berkeley from 1959 to 1964 and was a member of the faculty of the Columbia University library school. Shank was the first director of libraries at the Smithsonian Institution from 1968 to 1977. In 1977, he was named chief librarian at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) until he retired from that position in 1989. Shank was also a professor emeritus in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.
