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Reference and rare books : oral history transcript : three decades at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950-1981 / 2000.
BANC MSS 2001/92 c; Phonotape 3165 C:1-16
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Title:
Reference and rare books : oral history transcript: three decades at UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1950-1981 / 2000Library School oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Mosher, Fredric J. (Fredric John), 1914-, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
McCreery, Laura, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family background, education in North Dakota; doctoral study at the University of Illinois; postwar library studies a the
University of Chicago graduate library school; head of reference at Chicago's Newberry Library, late 1940s; to UC Berkeley's
School of Librarianship, 1950: impressions, loyalty oath controversy, teaching reference and bibliography from 1950-1981,
comments on deanship of J. Periam Danton, others; intellectual freedom and the Fiske Report of 1956 on censorship in California
libraries; 1960s, 1970s, deanship of Raynard C. Swank, Institute of Library Research, Fulbright in Denmark, the Free Speech
Movement; faculty views of computers for librarianship; interest in the history of printing, rare books, and the history of
books and libraries.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caDanton, J. Periam -- 1908-2002
Swank, Raynard Coe -- 1912-1995
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
Free Speech Movement (Berkeley, Calif.)
Librarians -- California -- Interviews
Library science -- California -- Berkeley
Rare books -- Study and teaching
Reference services (Libraries) -- Study and teaching
Note:
Fredric J. Mosher ; with introductions by Grete W. (Frugé) Cubie and Michael F. Buckland. Interviews conducted by Laura McCreery
in 1999. 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 3165 C:1-16.
Also available online.
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.
Volume includes index.
Type:
biographyOral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 v. (xiii, 201 p.) : port. ; 29 cm.
16 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1407
BANC MSS 2001/92 c
Phonotape 3165 C:1-16
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.