1876年,麦尔威·杜威首创十进制图书分类法,并于1887年在哥伦比亚大学创建了全美第一所正规的图书馆学院,这标志着美国图书馆学专业教育已由零散独立的发展阶段步入正规化、标准化的发展阶段。随后,威斯康星大学和雪城大学也相继建立了图书馆学院。1926年,芝加哥大学在卡内基基金会的支持下建立了美国第一个图书馆学研究生院,培养图书馆学领域的高级人才,图书馆学从此真正进入了学术研究的范畴。自20世纪70年代以来,计算机和网络的蓬勃发展促进了图书馆学与当代信息技术的 In 1876, Melville Dewey pioneered the Decalogue Classification, and in 1887 created the first formal library college in the United States at Columbia University, marking the beginning of a fragmented and independent developmental phase of American library science education Into the normalization and standardization of the development stage. Subsequently, the University of Wisconsin and Syracuse University have also established a library college. In 1926, with the support of the Carnegie Foundation, the University of Chicago established the first graduate school of library science in the United States to cultivate top talents in the field of library science. From then on, library science entered the category of academic research. Since the 1970s, the vigorous development of computers and networks has promoted the development of library science and contemporary information technology