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In 1986, full-time faculty members at ALA-accredited schools and directors of academic libraries belonging to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) were surveyed to determine which library schools they perceived as providing the highest quality of education at the master's and the doctoral levels, and which schools' faculties "presently contribute most significantly to the advancement of the profession through research, publication, and leadership." Responses from each of the two survey populations are ranked; they are also compared with rankings derived from White's 1980 survey, which was carried out in almost identical fashion, and from 1970 and 1974 surveys. Of more interest, perhaps, than the rankings themselves is the evidence of change in schools' prestige, and the distinguishable trends in this change, over sixteen years.
Herbert S. White (Wed,) studied this question.