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Information for all : oral history transcript: an activist librarian and library educator at the University of California, 1961-1984 / 2001Library School oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Blake, Fay M., 1920-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
McCreery, Laura, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Early life and political upbringing in New York City; Hunter College, 1936-1940; American Student Union and Young Communist
League; political interests and activism in southern California during WWII; working and attending the library school at the
University of Southern California, 1956-1961; UCLA acquisitions department's gifts and exchange program, 1961-1970; Lawrence
Clark Powell and the UCLA library; concurrent Ph. D. studies in English literature at UCLA, 1960s; appointment status of University
of California librarians; the Librarians Association of the University of California; on the faculty of UC Berkeley's School
of Librarianship, 1971-84; developing the school's field studies program; deanships of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland;
serving on the California State Library board; effects of Proposition 13 on libraries; role of the public library in society;
the future of librarianship; ongoing collaborations with H. Morton Newman [husband, present during interviews].
Date:
2001 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caLibrarians -- California -- Interviews
Library science -- California -- Berkeley
Bibliothécaires -- Californie -- Entretiens
Bibliothéconomie -- Californie -- Berkeley
Librarians
Library science
California
California -- Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Librarianship -- History
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Library and Information Studies -- History
University of California (System). -- Librarians Association.
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Librarianship
University of California, Berkeley. -- School of Library and Information Studies
University of California (System). -- Librarians Association
Wilson, Patrick -- 1927-2003
Buckland, Michael Keeble
Newman, H. Morton
Buckland, Michael K -- 1941-
Newman, H. Morton
Wilson, Patrick -- 1927-2003
Note:
Fay M. Blake ; with an introduction by Anne G. Lipow. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery in 2000. Regional Oral History
Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Library School oral history series.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3181 C:1-6.
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:
biographyHistory
Interviews
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (x, 124 pages) : portrait ; 29 cm.
6 audiocassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z0x39
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
LD757 .B53 2001Copyright Note:
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.