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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Title: Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dean. Administrative files of Robert Mayo Hayes.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 450
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
12 linear ft.
(30 boxes)
Date: 1973-1991
Abstract: Record Series 450 contains the administrative files of Dean Robert Mayo Hayes of UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information
Science.
Creator:
Graduate School of Library and Information Science.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dean. Administrative files of Robert Mayo Hayes
(University Archives Record Series 450). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives.
Biographical Note
Robert Mayo Hayes received three degrees in Mathematics from UCLA: a B.A. in 1947, an M.A. in 1949, and a Ph.D. in 1952. Hayes
served as lecturer at UCLA in the Mathematics Department (1952-1964), as Director of the Institute of Library Research, UCLA
and UC Berkeley (1965-1970) and Dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), UCLA (1974-1989).
In 1991, after twenty-seven years of service on the faculty of GSLIS/UCLA, Hayes retired and became Professor Emeritus.
Hayes has served as President of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS) (1962/63); President of the Information
Science & Automation Division (now LITA) of the American Library Association (ALA) (1968/69); Vice-President and Chairman
of Section T of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1969-1971); and Chairman of ALA Committee
on Accreditation (1984-1986).
He was a Presidential appointee, 1979/80, on the Advisory Committee to the 1979 White House Conference on Library and Information
Service. He served as Chairman of the Public Sector/Private Sector Task Force of the National Commission on Libraries and
Information Science (1979-1982). Hayes was Chairman of the Planning Panel for the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on the
future of the NLM collection (1985-1987).
Scope and Content
Record Series 450 contains the administrative files of Dean Robert Mayo Hayes of UCLA's Graduate School of Library and Information
Science.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
UCLA Catalog Record ID