Reference and rare books
Subtitle: three decades at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950-1981
By: Fredric J. Mosher ; with introductions by Grete W. (Frugé) Cubie and Michael F. Buckland. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: McCreery, Laura.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: Danton, J. Periam, 1908-; Swank, Raynard Coe, 1912-; 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.; Rare books -- Study and teaching.; Reference services (Libraries) -- Study and teaching.; Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Library School oral history series.
Description: Family background, education in North Dakota; doctoral study at the University of Illinois; postwar library studies a the University of Chicago graduate library school; head of reference at Chicago's Newberry Library, late 1940s; to UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950: impressions, loyalty oath controversy, teaching reference and bibliography from 1950-1981, comments on deanship of J. Periam Danton, others; intellectual freedom and the Fiske Report of 1956 on censorship in California libraries; 1960s, 1970s, deanship of Raynard C. Swank, Institute of Library Research, Fulbright in Denmark, the Free Speech Movement; faculty views of computers for librarianship; interest in the history of printing, rare books, and the history of books and libraries.