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crln-23247	Swigger, Keith	Money, sex, and reputation in doctoral programs in library science	1991	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3809	121	47	I n the last 20 years, various attempts have been made to rank library schools in terms of qual­ity. Reputation rankings have also been criticized by Webster, who makes the following objections: rat­ ings are subject to the halo effect, in which the overall reputation of an institution affects the rank­ ing of individual departments; ratings lag several years behind reality, so the reputation of a school may be based on events, persons, or activities that are no longer a significant part of a program; schol­ ars from the nation’s leading universities serve in disproportionately large numbers as raters, and they tend to rank highly departments of the same type and with the same emphases as their own universities have.4 Herubel demonstrates there is considerable overlap between the list of schools of high repute and the list of schools from which the faculties of library science programs (who rate the schools) received their degrees.5 There have been several attempts to relate quantitative variables to reputation.	cache/crln-23247.pdf	txt/crln-23247.txt