Dean and professor at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1976
By: J. Periam Danton ; with an introduction by Michael K. Buckland. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 1999 and Mary Hanel in 1993. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Hanel, Mary.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. School of Librarianship -- History.; University of California, Berkeley. Library School Library.; Librarians -- California -- Interviews.; Library science -- California -- Berkeley.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Library School oral history series.
Description: Columbia's library school, New York Public Library, 1920s; the American Library Association, 1930-1933; University of Chicago's graduate library school, 1933-1935; university positions at Colby, Temple, Columbia; critique of library education, 1945; Dean of Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1961: colleagues, finances, courses taught; establishing doctoral programs in librarianship; the Library School Library; Donald Coney and UC Berkeley's main library, loyalty oath, Clark Kerr, Free Speech Movement, the Library Council, the Chancellor's Administrative Advisory Council; Raynard Swank and the Institute of Library Research; on-line catalogs and other changes to librarianship; deanships of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland; publications, sabbatical in Vienna.