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John Newman Olsgaard
December 29, 1953 - December 07, 2007
Obituary Notice
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 COLUMBIA - Memorial service for John Olsgaard, 53, will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Rutledge Chapel on the campus of the University of South Carolina. Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, is assisting the family.
Mr. Olsgaard passed away Friday, December 07, 2007. He was born and raised in Jamestown, N.D. He graduated from a number of different universities, including receiving a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois(Urbana-Champaign) in 1984.
Mr. Olsgaard met his wife, Jane Kinch Olsgaard, while both were attending graduate school at the University of Iowa. They were married in 1978. They moved to Columbia in 1984 where he became a faculty member in the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina. He served in a number of faculty and administrative capacities at the University, including fifteen years as associate provost.
Surviving are his wife of Columbia; daughter, Sarah E. Olsgaard of Columbia; son, Neal J. Olsgaard of Columbia; his mother, Doris E. Olsgaard of Jamestown, N.D.; sister, Nancy A. Whitmer of Billings, Mont.; sister-in-law, Nyla Schneeweis of Grand Rapids, Minn.; and numerous cousins and aunts.
Memorials may be made to the USC Educational Foundation, Attention: the John and Jane Olsgaard Scholarship Fund, School of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
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From his webpage:
John received his B.A. in History from Jamestown College in 1974. In 1976 he received an M.A. in American History from the University of North Dakota. In 1977 he received his M.L.S. in Library Science from the University of Iowa. From 1977 to 1981 he served as the Documents Librarian and Archivist, Assistant Professor, at the University of South Dakota. In 1984 Dr. Olsgaard received his Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
In 1984 he was appointed Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean in the College of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina . From 1985 to 1986 he served as the Interim Dean of the College of Library and Information Science. In June 1989 he was promoted to tenured Associate Professor. In August 1989 he was appointed Associate Provost of the University of South Carolina. Dr. Olsgaard also served as Interim Dean of University Libraries at USC from 2001 to 2002. In 2004, John came home to the School of Library and Information Science.
Dr. Olsgaard's primary research interests were in the areas of: academic library administration, research methodologies in library and information science, and information system design.
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