Philosopher of information
Subtitle: an eclectic imprint on Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1965-1991
By: Patrick G. Wilson ; with an introduction by Howard D. White. 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: Swank, Raynard Coe, 1912-; 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.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Library School oral history series.; University of California Source of community leaders oral history series.
Description: Childhood and early musical achievements, Santa Cruz, CA; UC Berkeley, 1945-1949, student jobs in the main library, influence of Richard Teggart; School of Librarianship, 1952-1953, positions as map librarian, South Asia bibliographer for the Modern India Project; Ph.D. in philosophy at Berkeley, 1960; teaching philosophy at UCLA, 1960-1965; Berkeley's School of Librarianship (later School of Library and Information Studies), since 1965: deanship of Raynard C. Swank, the Institute of Library Research, Wilson's deanship, 1970-1975; changing the school and its curricula in an atmosphere of unrest; writing on bibiographical organization and control, library and information policy, and cognitive authority; serving on Academic Senate committees, chairing the Committee on Courses of Instruction; thoughts on librarianship as intellectual platform, librarianship as a "science," the future of librarianship; honored at Scandinavian conference, 1993.