1941 San José State College is officially accredited by American Association of Universities. 1941 San José State College is officially accredited by American Association of Universities.
1943 The library program has 10 women students: 3 seniors and 7 juniors. The average age is 22 years old. Total number of San Jose State graduates has risen to 112; 66 are still working in libraries. Fifty-nine have positions in Northern California, 5 in Southern California, 2 in other states. Thirty-six alums are married and not working, the rest found jobs in other fields.
1943 Admission to the library school requires a 1.5 GPA; education and home economics departments require only a 1.25 GPA. Students already taking library courses have an average GPA of 1.846. Library department facilities consist of a classroom/laboratory with bookcases with glass doors for the cataloging collection, wall shelves for reference books, a low counter for bibliographic tools, a blackboard, and bulletin boards. Equipment for student use includes a 16mm sound projector, a “reflectoscope,” photographs, and other illustrative material. Students are assigned desks and given keys to the room. Tuition is $7 per quarter.
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1947 The library school has 5 part-time faculty.
1949 The library program now accepts students interested in working in non-school libraries. The department consists of a suite of offices, a laboratory, and classroom on the second floor of Wahlquist South. Five part-time faculty teach the library science courses. A library student group called “Bibliophiles” is active on campus and seen “as a means by which faculty and students become better acquainted.”
From the bulletin: "The Department occupies a suite of offices, a classroom and a laboratory on the second floor of the library. A special collection of books housed in the library classroom offers a variety of problems in classification and cataloging. Specimens of fine book making and beautiful printing are available for the course in History of Books and Libraries. A juvenile book collection in the Education Reading Room provides material to supplement the course in Children's Literature. The Children's Room in the Public Library and its Willow Glen Branch and the libraries in the City Schools offer opportunities for observation and practice."
