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Subtitle: an activist librarian and library educator at the University of California, 1961-1984
By: Fay M. Blake ; with an introduction by Anne G. Lipow. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 2000. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Wilson, Patrick, 1927-; Buckland, Michael Keeble.; Newman, H. Morton.; University of California, Berkeley. School of Librarianship -- History.; University of California, Berkeley. School of Library and Information Studies -- History.; University of California (System). Librarians Association.; Librarians -- California -- Interviews.; Library science -- California -- Berkeley.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Library School oral history series.
Description: Early life and political upbringing in New York City; Hunter College, 1936-1940; American Student Union and Young Communist League; political interests and activism in southern California during WWII; working and attending the library school at the University of Southern California, 1956-1961; UCLA acquisitions department's gifts and exchange program, 1961-1970; Lawrence Clark Powell and the UCLA library; concurrent Ph.D. studies in English literature at UCLA, 1960s; appointment status of University of California librarians; the Librarians Association of the University of California; on the faculty of UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1971-84; developing the school's field studies program; deanships of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland; serving on the California State Library board; effects of Proposition 13 on libraries; role of the public library in society; the future of librarianship; ongoing collaborations with H. Morton Newman [husband, present during interviews].