With this experience he was introduced to printing, publishing, administration, and handling books, which would encompass his life's work.

[4] He entered Davenport College, a preparatory school in 1894, studying Greek and ancient history among the other essential subjects.

In 1895, Wilson entered Haverford College, but "left on account of ill-health" at the end of his Junior year, 1898.

[5] His Senior year, he decided to attend the University of North Carolina, the location of a milder climate which would be more beneficial to his health.

His Master's thesis was "The Influence of Lyly and Green upon the Pastoral Comedy of Shakespeare," and was published in the October 1902 issue of the University Magazine.

[3] During the beginning of his librarianship, he obtained copies of the Dewey abridged classification scheme, providing the rules and forms for cataloging, and widened his knowledge and expertise pertaining to the operation of libraries.

Wilson also worked with Katherine McCall, a graduate of the New York State Library School at Albany, during the summer of 1901 changing the classification system from a fixed location to the more modern "relative" Dewey arrangement that was being adopted by librarians across the nation.

[3] In addition to these works, Wilson prepared an exhibit of early North Caroliniana for display at the State Fair, which won a gold medal for the library.

"[3] Wilson also urged the various academic departments to provide expertise in their fields by assisting the librarian in building the collections.

The necessity of permanent assistants to help with the operations of the library was also stressed by Wilson, in addition to his emphasis on the careful treatment of rare items, and he was also concerned with building an extensive collection of North Carolina.

Wilson's statements in his report received the impressed attention of President Venable in which he wrote, "the salary of the Librarian should be increased so as to obtain the services of a skilled officer.

"[3] Wilson received his Ph.D. in philology with a dissertation on Chaucer's relative constructions in 1905 from the University of North Carolina as well.

In 1905, he also joined the faculty as a German professor in 1905, and even began teaching courses in library science.

[7] Wilson left Chapel Hill and became dean of the University of Chicago Graduate Library School in 1932.

The university library; its organization, administration and functions, by Louis Round Wilson and Maurice F. Tauber.