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Dean and professor at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1976 : oral history transcript / 2000.
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Dean and professor at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1976 : oral history transcript / 2000Library School oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Danton, J. Periam, 1908-2002, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
McCreery, Laura, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Hanel, Mary, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Columbia's library school, New York Public Library, 1920s; the American Library Association, 1930-1933; University of Chicago's
graduate library school, 1933-1935; university positions at Colby, Temple, Columbia; critique of library education, 1945;
Dean of Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1946-1961: colleagues, finances, courses taught; establishing doctoral programs
in librarianship; the Library School Library; Donald Coney and UC Berkeley's main library, loyalty oath, Clark Kerr, Free
Speech Movement, the Library Council, the Chancellor's Administrative Advisory Council; Raynard Swank and the Institute of
Library Research; on-line catalogs and other changes to librarianship; deanships of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland; publications,
sabbatical in Vienna.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLibrarians -- California -- Interviews
Library science -- California -- Berkeley
Bibliothécaires -- Californie -- Entretiens
Bibliothéconomie -- Californie -- Berkeley
Library science
Librarians
California -- Berkeley
California
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Librarianship -- History
University of California, Berkeley. -- Library School Library.
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Librarianship
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J. Periam Danton ; with an introduction by Michael K. Buckland. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 1999 and Mary Hanel
in 1993. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Library School oral history 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 3164 C:1-11.
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:
biographyInterviews.
History.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (x, 158 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm
11 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright 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.