library science

noun

1. the study of the organization and administration of a library and of its technical, informational, and reference services.

Word History and Origins

Origin of library science¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

After receiving a second bachelor’s degree, in library science, from the University of Washington in 1939, she became a children’s librarian in Yakima.

From Washington Post

The range of responses was not limited to universities with library science programs or culinary institutions interested in acquiring Lynne’s expansive food library.

From Eater

Dad teaches in Berkeley three days a week, working with a few grad students in the library science program.

From Project Gutenberg

In general, I have ruled out chapters on the bibliography of bibliographies in handbooks of library science.

From Project Gutenberg

We can only regret his failure to print his two books on bibliography and library science.

From Project Gutenberg

I have found no reviews of it in the contemporary journals for bibliography and library science.

From Project Gutenberg

Presumably the Bibliothecariographia was a treatise on library science.

From Project Gutenberg