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MSS 89-93
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Title: David Bishop Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1971-88
Collection number: MSS 89-93
Creator: Bishop, David, 1928-1989
Extent: 1 carton and 1 box
Repository:
University of California, San Francisco. Library. Archives and Special Collections
San Francisco, California 94143-0840
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Collection is open for research.
[Identification of item], David Bishop Papers, MSS 89-93, Archives & Special
Collections, UCSF Library & CKM
David Bishop, University Librarian and Associate Professor of the History of the Health
Sciences, UCSF was a native of Newfoundland, Canada (naturalized in 1966). He graduated
with a BA in Economics from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia (1952) and a MSLS cum laude
from Columbia University School of Library Service (1958).
Mr. Bishop had an outstanding career in biomedical librarianship, beginning with his
appointment at the Los Angeles County Medical Association (LACMA) Library. In 1961 he
went to the UCLA Biomedical Library, where he designed and acquired the collection for
the new UCLA dental school, and as serials librarian he helped design one of the first
batch-mode computer-based serials control systems in the country. In 1965 Mr. Bishop
became the "founding librarian" for the new medical school at the University of Arizona
in Tucson. where he planned both a library facility and the collection and services of a
new academic health sciences library.
When David Bishop took the position of Medical Librarian at McGill
University in Montreal (1971), his goal was the development of a Life Sciences
Area Library from seven independent libraries. This accomplished, in late 1973 he
returned to the U.S. as director of the Library of Medicine at the University of Nebraska
Medical Center in Omaha. When he accepted the position of University Librarian at UCSF
(1977), his top priorities were planning the new library facility with extended services,
and working toward new computer-based systems for the UCSF Library in a UC-wide context.
His work at UCSF included directing a statewide AHEC library program, extending online
search training to UCSF faculty and staff, and working with the School of Medicine to
introduce computer-based information systems into the medical curriculum.
The author of some two dozen articles or book chapters in the library literature, he
served as the associate editor of the 4th edition of the official
Handbook of
Medical Library Practice
for which he received the Medical Library Association's
President's Award in 1989. He served on the MLA Board of Directors from 1971 to 1974 and
presented the prestigious Janet Doe Lecture in 1976.
As a consultant to the National Library of Medicine in various areas
1968-87, he served eleven years as a selection consultant for
Index Medicus.He was a member of the American Library Association, American Society for
Information Sciences, Association of American Medical Colleges (personal member), Bay
Area History of Medicine Club, Northern California and Nevada Medical Library Group,
Society for the History of Technology, and University of California Press Associates.
Papers include correspondence, reports, manuscripts, plaques, relating to his tenure at
the UCSF Library and work with professional organizations.
Photographs of D. Bishop transferred to Archives Photo Collection.