A career in public libraries and at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1937-1975
By: Grete W. (Frugé) Cubie ; with an introduction by Sheila Dowd. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California (1868-1952). School of Librarianship -- History.; University of California, Berkeley. School of Librarianship -- History.; University of California, Berkeley. School of Library and Information Studies -- History.; Librarians -- California -- Interviews.; Library science -- California -- Berkeley.; Cataloging -- Study and teaching.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Library School oral history series.; University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Early life in Germany; emigration, 1930, and education at Lowell High School, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley; School of Librarianship, 1936-1937: founder, Sydney B. Mitchell and early faculty, Edith M. Coulter and Della J. Sisler, students, coursework; positions at Sacramento, Oakland, and San Francisco public libraries, 1930s and 1940s; School of Librarianship faculty, 1947-1950s: changes in the school, teaching cataloging and classification with Anne Ethelyn Markley, Dean J. Periam Danton, the Coulter Lectureship, Loyalty Oath; 1960s-1970s: student movements, South Hall, curriculum changes, Alumni Association, deans Raynard C. Swank, Patrick G. Wilson; discusses online catalogs and other changes to the profession, censorship, stereotypes of librarians, the history of cataloging and the Library of Congress classification system.