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.