Description
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.