"A brilliant mind": Margaret Egan and social epistemology

Library Trends, Spring, 2004 by Jonathan Furner

Table 1. The Relationship of Social Epistemology to Epistemology,
Psychology, and Sociology.

                              Level of analysis

Mode of orientation   Individual     Social

Cognitive             Epistemology   Social epistemology
Goal-directed         Psychology     Sociology
Affective             Psychology     Sociology

Table 2. Frequency of Publications Authored by Egan

                                    Book     Journal    Conf.
                          Books   chapters   articles   papers

Egan only                                       3         4
Egan & Shera                                    2
Shera & Egan                1        1          1
Egan & others                                             3
Others & Egan               1

Total Egan first author                         5         7

Total Egan                  2        1          6         7

                          Magazine    Book               Edited
                          articles   reviews   Reports   works

Egan only                    1          4                  1
Egan & Shera                            1
Shera & Egan                            1         2        1
Egan & others                                     1
Others & Egan

Total Egan first author      1          5         1        1

Total Egan                   1          6         3        2

                          Editorial
                           matter     Letters   Total

Egan only                     1                  14
Egan & Shera                                      3
Shera & Egan                  1          1        9
Egan & others                                     4
Others & Egan                                     1

Total Egan first author       1                  21

Total Egan                    2          1       31

Egan, M. E. (1937). An experiment in advisory service and graded reading in the C.C.C. camps. Library Quarterly, 7(4), 471-491.

Fihe, P.J., Egan, M. E., MacLean, H. H., & Chancellor, J. M. (Eds.). (1939). Books for adult beginners; Compiled by the staff of the Readers' Bureau of the Cincinnati Public Library. Chicago: American Library Association.

Egan, M. E., Butler, P., Davies, D. W., Keck, L. L., & Whitmarsh, A. (1947). Special materials: A symposium. In H. H. Fussler (Ed.), Library buildings for library service: Papers presented before the Library Institute at the University of Chicago, August 5-10, 1946 (pp. 71-75). Chicago: American Library Association.

Egan, M. E. (1948). [Review of the book How to take, keep and use notes, by J. Edwin Holmstrom]. Library Quarterly, 18(4), 298.

Egan, M. E., Wheeler, J. L., Bennett, W., & Shera, J. H. (1948). Survey of the Saginaw Library System: Final report. Saginaw, MI: Hoyt Memorial Library.

Egan, M. E. & Shera, J. H. (1949). Prolegomena to bibliographic control. Journal of Cataloging and Classification, 5(2), 17-19.

Shera, J. H. & Egan, M. E. (1950). Documentation in the United States. American Documentation, 1(1), 8-12.