Fred Schlipf Publications Page 1

Fred Schlipf Publications Page 1

Fred Schlipf

Professional Publications

The New York Public Library: A Background Paper. Chicago: University of Chicago, Center for Urban Studies, 1965. vi,58p.

Trends in Branch Library Use Related to Community Characteristics. Master's Dissertation, GraduateLibrarySchool, University of Chicago, 1966. iv,83p.

(With Philip H. Ennis) Copying and Duplicating Practices in American Education. (NORC Report #115). Chicago: NationalOpinionResearchCenter, University of Chicago, 1966. xii,111p.

“Leon Carnovsky: A Bibliography,” Library Quarterly (October 1968), 38:429-41.

“The Cover Design,” Library Quarterly (April 1969), 39:196. Reprinted in: Winger, Howard W., ed. Printers' Marks and Devices. Chicago: The Caxton Club, 1976. P. 66. [An article on Nicolaus Marschalk, a German printer of the early 16th century.]

The Geographical Distribution of Urban Public Library Use and its Relationship to the Location of Branch Libraries. Ph.D. Dissertation, GraduateLibrarySchool, University of Chicago, 1973. x,328p.

(Editor) Collective Bargaining in Libraries. (Allerton Park Institute Number 20). Urbana, Illinois: Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois, 1975. xiv,179p. Selected reviews:ARBA (American Reference Books Annual) 76, item no. 184, p. 123; Library Quarterly; Southeastern Librarian (Summer 1976), 95-96.

(With Jeanne Brown) “The Use of Microfiche and COM Indexes to Improve Municipal Documents Control,” Government Publications Review (July-August 1982), 9:289-310.

(Edited with Barbara Jean Evans and Barbara L. Roberts) Early History and Pioneers of ChampaignCounty by Milton W. Mathews and Lewis A. McLean. [Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Reprint Series No. 3] Whipporwill Publications. n.d. [A reprint of an 1891 collected biography, with added appendices, historical notes, and index.]

(Edited with Raymond Bial) Upon a Quiet Landscape: The Photographs of Frank Sadorus. (Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Publications Series No. 6). Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1983. 168p. Selected reviews:Afterimage (March 1984); Choice (June 1984) 21:1459; Illinois Historical Journal (Winter 1984), 77(no.4):312-13; Illinois Writers Review (Spring 1986), 5:1:10-12; Library Journal (May 1, 1984), 892; Picturescope (Summer 1985), 36-7; Views: The Journal of Photography in New England (Summer 1984), 5(no.4):18.

(Editor) Cunningham, J.O. The History of Champaign County: Reprint of the 1905 Edition with Indexes by Mary Thompson and by Jean and Rupert Evans. (Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Publications Series No. 7). Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1984. 538p.

(Editor) Combined 1893, 1913, and 1929 Atlases of Champaign County, Illinois. Second Edition, with added appendix and index. (Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Publications Series No. 8). Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1984. 444p.

(Editor) Index to the Combined 1893, 1913 and 1929 Atlases of Champaign County, Illinois. (Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Publications Series No. 9.) Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1984. 116p.

(With Jeanne Brown) “The Urbana Municipal Documents Project: A Cooperative Approach to Municipal Documents Control,” Library Journal (March 1, 1985), 110, No. 4: 51-56.

“Model Making,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 5th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1986. Pp. 715-27. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 27 magazines in seven categories.]

“Models,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for School Libraries. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1987. [Reviews of 19 magazines in six categories.]

(With Jean E. Koch and Howard C. Grueneberg, Jr.) The UrbanaMunicipalDocumentsCenter Manual. Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1987. ix,260p. Selected reviews:Library Journal (March 1, 1985), 110:51; Government Publications Review (1988), 15:77-82, 172-76; International Institute of Municipal Clerks News Digest (March 1988), 40:3:4-5; Nation's Cities Weekly (September 28, 1987), 10:39:9.

A Building Program for the BementTownship [Illinois] Public Library. 1987. 40p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1989.]

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 6th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1989. Pp. 781-96. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 37 magazines in nine categories.]

“The UrbanaMunicipalDocumentsCenter: Ten Years of Development,” Illinois Libraries (November 1989), 71:452-56.

A Building Program for the Paris [Illinois] Carnegie Public Library. 1990. 40+19p. [Expansion and remodeling of the Paris Carnegie Public Library. Phase I of building project completed in 1993.]

A Building Program for the Arthur [Illinois] Public Library. 1990. 34p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1991.]

A Building Program for the CamargoTownship Public Library[Villa Grove, Illinois]. 1990. 33p. [Conversion of an existing retail structure to a public library. Construction completed 1992.]

A Building Program for the Mattoon [Illinois] Public Library. 1991. 64p. [Expansion and remodeling of a 1902 Carnegie structure. Construction completed 1995.]

“Models,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Young People. 2nd ed. New Providence, N.J.: R.R. Bowker, 1991. Pp. 201-06. [Reviews of 15 magazines.]

“Municipal Libraries, District Libraries, and SB 390,” ILA Reporter (October 1991), 9(no.6):7,18.

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 7th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1992. Pp. 827-40. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 41 magazines in nine categories.]

“Collection Development: Model Making and Collecting,” Library Journal (April 1, 1992), 117(no.6):85-88. [A survey of model building and collecting hobbies, with 26 reviews of books in the field.]

“Magazines,” Library Journal (April 1, 1992), 117(no.6):158. [Six reviews of model-making and collecting magazines.]

“Model Making & Collecting: An Update,” Library Journal (June 15, 1993), 118(no.11):72-73. [12 reviews of new books in the field.]

“Problems in Public Library Collection Development; or, Why I Can't Ever Get What I Want Through Interlibrary Loan, and What I Want You to Do About It,” in Cargill, Jennifer and Diane J. Graves, eds. Advances in Library Resource Sharing, Vol. 4. Westport, CT: Meckler. [Scheduled for 1993. Publication delayed.]

A Building Program for the Forsyth [Illinois] Public Library. 1993. 53p. [Expansion and remodeling of a 1982 building. Building completed in 1997.]

A Building Program for the Hudson [Illinois] Area Public Library District. 1994. 46p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1995.]

“Modeling: An Annual Update,” Library Journal (June 15, 1994), 119:11:68-69. [18 reviews of books in the field.]

A Building Program for the Forrest [Illinois] Public Library District. 1994. 46p. [Conversion of an existing structure to a public library. Building completed in 1997.]

A Building Program for the Philo [Illinois] Public Library District. 1995. 43p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1997.]

A Building Program for the Martinsville [Illinois] Public Library District. 1995. 46p. [Conversion of an existing structure to a public library. Building completed.]

A Building Program for the Mt.Zion [Illinois] District Library. 1995. 41p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1998.]

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 8th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1995. Pp. 884-902. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 50 magazines in ten categories.]

A Building Program for the Tolono [Illinois] Public Library District. 1995. 54p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1997.]

“Toy Trains and Military Miniatures,” Library Journal (December 1995), 120:20:100. [Annual update on new books on model building and collecting, with 14 reviews of books in the field.]

A Building Program for the Cordova [Illinois] District Library. 1996. 55p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed in 1998.]

A Building Program for the Arcola [Illinois] Public Library District. 1996. 58p. [Remodeling and expansion of a Carnegie library building. Schematic design completed. Program extensively revised in 2000-2001 and building completed in 2004. See below.]

A Building Program for the Ogden [Illinois] Rose Public Library. 1996. 49p. [Construction of a new combined public library and community building. Building completed in 1998.]

Illinois Library Association. Public Library Management Forum. Standards Review Committee. Serving Our Public: Standards for Illinois Public Libraries. Rev. ed. Chicago: The Association, 1997. 95p. [One of committee of eight that prepared the document. Author of the section on “Sample Surveys,” pp.74-88.]

A Building Program for the Washington [Illinois] District Library. 1997-2001. 80p. [Construction of a new public library building combined with a recreation building. Architect selected. Building completed 2007.]

(Editor, with Jean E. Koch and Howard C. Grueneberg, Jr.) Combined 1893, 1913, and 1929 Atlases of Champaign County, Illinois. Third Edition, with a name index by the staff and volunteers of The Urbana Free Library. 352p. (Champaign County Historical Archives, Historical Publications Series No. 12). Urbana, Illinois: The Urbana Free Library, 1997.

A Building Program for the Eureka [Illinois] Public Library District. 1997, rev. 2001. 61p. [Construction of a new public library building. Architect selected. Project inactive.]

“Model Making and More: Fifteen Titles to Update Your Collection,” Library Journal (November 15, 1997), 122:19:56.

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 9th ed. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1997. Pp. 954-74. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 63 magazines in ten categories.]

(With Jean E. Koch and Dian Strutz) “The UrbanaMunicipalDocumentsCenter,” Illinois Libraries (Spring 1998), 80:66-70.

A Building Program for the Toulon [Illinois] Public Library and Community Center. 1998, rev. 2001. 63p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed 2012.]

A Building Program for the Westville [Illinois] Public Library District. 1998, rev. 2001. 57p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed 2003.]

A Building Program for the Milford [Illinois] District Library. 1998. 47p. [Expansion of a Carnegie library building. Building completed 2000.]

(With John A. Moorman) The Seven Deadly Sins of Library Architecture. Summary of a presentation at the March 1998 Public Library Association Conference in Kansas City. Published on the website of The Urbana Free Library. Reprinted in The One-Person Library. vol. 25, no. 6 (October 2008), pp 7-8.

A Building Program for the Gilman [Illinois] Area District Library. 1999, rev. 2000. 57p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed 2002.]

A Building Program for the Hoopeston [Illinois] Public Library District. 1999, rev. 2000. 67p. [Remodeling and expansion of a Carnegie library building. Building completed 2002.]

A Building Program for the Chicago Ridge [Illinois] Public Library. 1999. [Expansion and remodeling of an existing public library building. Building completed 2002.]

A Building Program for the Kansas [Illinois] Community Unit #3 School District Library. 1999. [Construction of a new building housing the school library, a community meeting room, and the superintendent’s office. Project inactive.]

A Building Program for the Combined Library of the Central Community Unit School District No. 4 and the Central Citizens’ Library District [between Clifton and Chebanse, Illinois]. 1999. 30p. [Construction of a new combined school/public library in the expanded middle school/high school building. Building completed 2002.]

A Building Program for the Catlin [Illinois] Public Library District. 1999-2001. 44p. [Conversion and expansion of an existing structure to form a public library. Building completed 2003.]

(With John Moorman) The Public Library Construction Process: From Problem Recognition to Ribbon Snipping. 1999-2013. 25p. [Prepared to accompany the authors’ presentation at the Public Library Association symposium on “Planning, Designing and Building the Perfect Library,” March 25-27, 1999. Subsequently revised and expanded for presentations at the South Carolina State Library 2001 Public Library Trustee Institute, the Illinois State Library 2001 Small Public Library Management Institute, the Illinois Library Association 2002 Trustees’ Institute, the Rolling Prairie Library System 2002 Annual Seminar, the 2002 Small Public Library Management Institute, the 2005 Pennsylvania Public Library Trustees Institute, and a 2016 meeting of LACONI—the Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois.] Recent version online at

A Building Program for the Watseka [Illinois] Public Library. 2000-2001. 65p. [Remodeling and expansion of an existing library building. Schematic design completed. Building completed 2003.]

Bloomington [Illinois] Public Library: Short-Term Facility Improvements. 2000. 13p. [Report of a study of functional problems, with a list of possible improvements, including priorities based on costs and needs.]

A Building Program for the Effingham [Illinois] Public Library. 2001. 99p. [Construction of a new public library building. Extensively revised in 2006 as A Building Program for the Helen Matthes Library.]

A Building Program for the Carthage [Illinois] Public Library District. 2000. 67p. [Remodeling and expansion of an existing library, or construction of a new library building. Conversion of an existing structure to a new library completed in 2006.]

A Building Program for the LaSalle [Illinois] Public Library. 2000-2001. 71p. [Remodeling and expansion of a Carnegie library building. Building completed 2003.]

A Building Program for the Arcola [Illinois] Public Library District. 2001. 67p. [Remodeling and expansion of a Carnegie library building. An extensive revision and expansion of a program first prepared in 1996. Building completed 2004.]

A Building Program for the Tinley Park [Illinois] Public Library. 2000. 123p. [Construction of a new library building. Building completed 2004.]

A Building Program for the Homer [Illinois] Opera House. 2000. 27p. [Remodeling of the historic Homer Opera House, then used as a community center, to better utilize space, expand village offices, and expand the library. Architect selected. Schematic design completed. In 2006, the village instead purchased a large modern church due to vastly easier conversion. Construction completed 2007.]

[With John Moorman] (Un)desiderata: Twenty-Seven Snappy Rules for Good and Evil in Library Architecture. 2000. 2p. Reprinted as “27 Rules for Good and Evil in Library Architecture” in George M. Eberhart, ed.,The Whole Library Catalog 4. Chicago: American Library Association, 2006. Pp. 59-60. Reprinted in The One-Person Library, vol. 25, no. 6 (October 2008), pp. 8-9. [Prepared to accompany the authors’ presentation at the Public Library Association national conference, March 30, 2000. Subsequently presented in revised and updated versions at the South Carolina State Library 2001 Trustees’ Institute; the Illinois School Library Media Association 2000 conference; the Illinois State Library 2001 Small Public Library Management Institute; the Illinois Library Association 2001 annual conference; the Rolling Prairie Library System 2002 Annual Seminar; the Heritage Trail Libraries System 2003 workshop “A Full Day with Fred;” the University of Tromsø, Norway, 2004; the Pennsylvania 2005 Public Library Trustee Institute; and the Royal Danish Library School, Copenhagen, 2006.] Online at

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Bill Katz and Linda Sternberg Katz. Magazines for Libraries. 10th ed. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 2000. Pp. 1060-83. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 76 magazines in ten categories.]

A Building Program for the Mt.Hope-Funk’s Grove Townships [McLean, Illinois] Library District. 2000. 58p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed 2002.]

A Building Program for the ElwoodTownship [Ridge Farm, Illinois] Carnegie Library. 2000. 58p. [Expansion and remodeling of an existing Carnegie library.]

A Building Program for the Charleston [Illinois] Carnegie Public Library. 2000, 2001. 108p. [Expansion and remodeling of an existing Carnegie library. Building completed 2008.]

(With Jerry Goff) A Building Program for the Sherrard [Illinois] Public Library District. 2000. 59p. [Construction of a new public library.]

A Building Program for the Rantoul [Illinois] Public Library. 2001. 88p. [Conversion of an existing structure to a public library. Building completed 2003.]

(With Lian Ruan) A Building Program for the Illinois Fire Service Institute Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 2001. 73p. [A new Fire Service Institute building providing a library, conference rooms, classrooms, etc., was completed 2010.]

Evaluation of the Possible Conversion of the FormerMahometMethodistChurch to a New Home for the Mahomet [Illinois] Public Library. 2001. 26p. [A strongly negative report. Conversion not undertaken. A new public library building was completed in 2010.]

A Building Program for the LaGrange [Illinois] Public Library. 2001. 102p. [Expansion and remodeling of an existing public library building, or construction of a new building. New building completed.]

A Building Program for the Warsaw [Illinois] Public Library. 2001-02. 69p. [Construction of a new public library building. Building completed 2006.]

A Report on the Suitability of Locating a Branch of the Bloomington [Illinois] Public Library in the Former Beich Candy Factory. 2001. 10p. [The factory was proposed as a location for a variety of community services, but the building was later destroyed by fire.]

PublicLibraryBuilding Needs. 2001. 8p. [Prepared to accompany the author’s presentation at the Illinois State Library’s 2001 Small Public Library Management Institute. Subsequently revised and expanded for presentations at the Illinois Library Association 2002 Trustee Institute, the Rolling Prairie Library System 2002 Annual Seminar, and the 2002 Small Public Library Management Institute.]

Combined School and Public Libraries. 2001. 3p. [Prepared to accompany the author’s presentation at the Illinois State Library’s 2001 Small Public Library Management Institute. Subsequently revised to accompany the author’s presentation at the 2002 Institute.]

A Building Program for The Urbana [Illinois] Free Library. 2001. 113p. [Remodeling and expansion of an existing library building. Building completed 2005.]

Suggested Lighting Improvements for the Park Forest [Illinois] Public Library. 2001. 6p. [Installation of new lighting completed.]

“Model Making and Collecting,” in Cheryl LaGuardia, ed. Magazines for Libraries. 11th ed. New Providence, NJ: R.R. Bowker, 2002. Pp. 1106-31. [Descriptions of model building and collecting hobbies, with reviews of 79 magazines in 11 categories.]

[With John Moorman] Let There be at Least Half-Way Decent Light: Five Healthy Maxims for Successful Library Lighting. 2002. 1p. [Prepared to accompany the authors’ presentation at the Public Library Association national conference, March 2002. Presented in updated and significantly altered versions at the Heritage Trail Library System 2003 workshop, “A Full Day with Fred;” the Illinois Library Association 2003 annual conference, October 16; and the Virginia Library Association 2003 annual conference November 2003.]

[With John Moorman] Let There be at Least Half-Way Decent Light: How Library Illumination Systems Work—And Don’t Work. 2002. 18p. [A detailed outline of the authors’ presentation at the Public Library Association national conference, March 2002, Illinois Library Association conference fall 2003, and subsequent conferences.]

A Building Program for the FairviewHeights [Illinois] Public Library. 2002-03. 72p. [Expansion and remodeling of an existing library building. Architect selected.]

A Report of the Suitability of Expanding the Bloomington [Illinois] Public Library into the CurrentCity Hall. 2002. 12p. [A negative report. Expansion project not undertaken.]

A Report on the Possible Use of the Former Bloomington-Normal [Illinois] AirportTerminalBuilding as a Branch for the Bloomington Public Library. 2002. 12p. [Exploratory study. No action taken by library board.]

A Building Program for the PalosHeights[Illinois] Public Library. 2002. 91p. [Remodeling and expansion of an existing library building. Construction completed 2004.]

A Building Program for the Mahomet [Illinois] Public Library. 2002-07. 92p. [Construction of a new library building. Construction completed 2010.]

A Building Program for the Park Forest [Illinois] Public Library. 2002-04. 126p. [Remodeling and expansion of an existing library building, remodeling of another building, or construction of a new library. Architect selected and feasibility studies competed. Project subsequently reduced to remodeling only. Completed 2011.]