technology but do not become its servant’’. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science shortly before his death on March 8, 1982, aged 78. Many of his books are actually compilations of essays or presentations, but there are a fair number of text books scattered through his life’s work. JESSE, the primary email discussion list used by library and information science educators, is named in honor of Jesse Shera. The American Library Association offers two awards in Shera’s name: the Jesse H. Shera Award for Distinguished Published Research, and the Jesse H. Shera Award for the Support of Dissertation Research. The first of these awards is given for research articles published in English during the calendar year, nominated by any member of Library Research Round Table (LRRT) or by the editors of research journals in the field of library and information studies. The second award is given to provide recognition and monetary support for dissertation research employing exemplary research design and methods. Books by Jesse Shera Introduction to library science: basic elements of library service. Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, 1976 Knowing books and men; knowing computers too. Littleton, Colo., Libraries Unlimited, 1973 The foundations of education for librarianship. New York, Becker and Hayes 1972 "The complete librarian"; and other essays. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1971, 1979 Sociological foundations of librarianship. New York, Asia Pub. House 1970 Documentation and the organization of knowledge. Hamden, Conn., Archon Books, 1966 Libraries and the organization of knowledge. London, C. Lockwood 1965 An epistemological foundation for library science. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1965 Information resources: a challenge to American science and industry. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve Univ. 1958 The classified catalog: basic principles and practices. Chicago, American Library Association, 1956 Documentation in action / Jesse H. Shera, Allen Kent, James W. Perry [editors]. New York : Reinhold Publishing Corp., 1956. Historians, books and libraries: a survey of historical scholarship in relation to library resources, organization and services. Cleveland, Press of Western Reserve University, 1953Bibliographic organization. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951Foundations of the public library: the origins of the public library movement in New England, 1629–1855. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1952, 1949An eddy in the western flow of America culture. Ohio state archæological and historical quarterly. --Columbus, O., 1935.The age factor in employment, a classified bibliography, by J.H. Shera ...