Libraries and the inquiring mind : oral history transcript / Robert G. Vosper ; interviewed by Dale E. Treleven ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 994.

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Libraries and the inquiring mind : oral history transcript / Robert G. Vosper ; interviewed by Dale E. Treleven ; completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 994.

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Vosper discusses his childhood and college education in Oregon; library training, University of California, Berkeley; career as librarian, at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of Kansas; major topics: evolution of university librarianship nationally and internationally, university/library relations, and professional library organizations and their work on national and international fronts; detailed account of institutions and personnel at UC Berkeley, 1940-1942, Stanford University Library, 1942-1944, UCLA, 1944-1952, University of Kansas, 1952-1961, and UCLA, 1961-1973, when Vosper was University Librarian, emeritus since 1983; academic appointment in Graduate School of Librarianship, 1961-present; work on Association of Research Libraries and American Library Assn. and regional library organizations; Council on Library Resources; thorough index to all aspects of UCLA Library.

Transcript: 3 v. (xiv, 1099 leaves) : port. ; 28 cm.

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Vosper, Robert.

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Robert Gordon Vosper was born on June 21, 1913 in Portland, OR; BA (1937) and MA (1939), Univ. of Oregon, 1939; library certificate, UC Berkeley, 1940; junior librarian, UC Berkeley, 1940-42; asst. reference librarian, Stanford Univ., 1942-44; head of acquisitions dept. (1944-48), asst. librarian (1948-49), and assoc. librarian (1949-52), UCLA; director of libraries, Univ. of Kansas, 1952-61, and at UCLA, 1961-73; also professor of library science (1961-83), emeritus professor and director of Wi...

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Association of College and Research Libraries.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library

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Powell was a librarian, Strashun the curator at the music library, and Whiting the curator of rare books at the UCLA library (at the respective times of correspondence). Sproul was president of UCLA from 1930 to 1958. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Isolde Klarmann, 1946-1947, 1978. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864679 ...

Treleven, Dale E.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Oral History Program

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