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A career in public libraries and at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1937-1975 : oral history transcript / 2000.
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A career in public libraries and at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1937-1975 : oral history transcript / 2000
Library School oral history series
University of California source of community leaders oral history series

Creator/Contributor:

Frugé, Grete W., creator, interviewee.

Creator/Contributor:

McCreery, Laura, interviewer.

Creator/Contributor:

Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.

Abstract:

Early life in Germany; emigration, 1930, and education at Lowell High School, San Francisco, and UC Berkeley; School of Librarianship, 1936-1937: founder, Sydney B. Mitchell and early faculty, Edith M. Coulter and Della J. Sisler, students, coursework; positions at Sacramento, Oakland, and San Francisco public libraries, 1930s and 1940s; School of Librarianship faculty, 1947-1950s: changes in the school, teaching cataloging and classification with Anne Ethelyn Markley, Dean J. Periam Danton, the Coulter Lectureship, Loyalty Oath; 1960s-1970s: student movements, South Hall, curriculum changes, Alumni Association, deans Raynard C. Swank, Patrick G. Wilson; discusses online catalogs and other changes to the profession, censorship, stereotypes of librarians, the history of cataloging and the Library of Congress classification system.

Date:

2000 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-ca
Librarians -- California -- Interviews
Library science -- California -- Berkeley
Cataloging -- Study and teaching
Bibliothécaires -- Californie -- Entretiens
Bibliothéconomie -- Californie -- Berkeley
Catalogage -- Étude et enseignement
Library science
Librarians
Cataloging -- Study and teaching
California -- Berkeley
California
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
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Library and Information Studies
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Librarianship

Note:

Grete W. (Frugé) Cubie ; with an introduction by Sheila Dowd. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Library School oral history series and University of California, Source of Community Leaders series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3166 C:1-12.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

biography
Interviews.
History.
Oral histories.

Physical Description:

print
1 volume (xi, 198 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
12 audiocassettes

Language:

English

Origin:

California

Copyright Note:

AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Related Item:

Career in public libraries and at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1937-1975 : oral history transcript 2000 : Frugé, Grete W. : (OCoLC)1085935805