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A dukedom large enough : oral history transcript : forty years in Northern California's public and academic libraries, 1936-1976
/ 2000.
BANC MSS 2001/107 c; Phonotape 3169 C:1-10
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Title:
A dukedom large enough : oral history transcript: forty years in Northern California's public and academic libraries, 1936-1976 / 2000Library School oral history series
University of California source of community leaders oral history series
Creator/Contributor:
Reynolds, Flora Elizabeth, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
McCreery, Laura, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Childhood in Marin County, CA; living in International House, UC Berkeley, master's degree in Latin; School of Librarianship,
1935-1936: comments on Sydney Mitchell, Della Sisler, Edith Coulter; employed at Sausalito and Mill Valley public libraries;
army librarian in California, 1943-1945; reference librarian, SF State College, 1949-1953; librarian of Mills College, 1955-1976:
predecessor Evelyn Steel Little, staff, students, collection development, early computerization; further on Edith Coulter;
influence of Frances Clarke Sayers; teaching reference and bibliography; working with LeRoy Merritt, Leslie Clarke, Roger
Levenson; William J. Monihan and University of San Francisco Gleeson Library; retirement: Associate in The Bancroft Library.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCoulter, Edith M. (Edith Margaret) -- 1880-1963
Mills College. -- Library -- History
Librarians -- California -- Interviews
Academic librarians -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Note:
Flora Elizabeth Reynolds ; with an introduction by Charles and Grace Larsen. 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 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 3169 C:1-10.
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. (xi, 180 p.) ; 29 cm.
10 sound cassettes.
Language:
English
Identifier:
http://nma.berkeley.edu/ark:/28722/bk0005z1229
BANC MSS 2001/107 c
Phonotape 3169 C:1-10
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.