Dr. Charles Osburn
Dean and Professor Emeritus
From 1980 to 2001, Dean and Professor Emeritus Osburn was dean of the libraries at the University of Alabama and the University of Cincinnati, prior to which appointments he was an assistant director in the libraries of Northwestern University and the State University of New York at Buffalo. He began his library career as Humanities Bibliographer at the University of North Carolina. Dr. Osburn has served on the boards of the Association of Research Libraries, the Center for Research Libraries, SOLINET, and several publishing enterprises, as well as on the Research Libraries Advisory Committee of OCLC.
Education
Ph.D., Library Science, University of Michigan
M.S., Library Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
M.A., French, Pennsylvania State University
B.A., French, Grove City College, Pennsylvania
Topics of Interest
Dean Osburn's writing is in the fields of library theory and management and scholarly communication. He conducts courses in academic libraries and collection development and a seminar in the theory of knowledge and information.
Teaching at SLIS
CIS 606 Seminar in Knowledge and Information Theory