The Perennial Question and a Radical Response: The Student Bibliographer Program in the Vanderbilt Divinity Library

Abstract

The student bibliographer program at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library has functioned successfully for thirty years. Created in 1979 by the library director, Dorothy Parks Evins, as a cost savings measure, the program has employed Ph.D. students to select materials and to perform other professional level tasks. The essay outlines the origins and development of the program. An appendix includes responses from former student bibliographers to questions regarding how their experience in the Student Bibliographer Program has influenced their professional and academic careers