Oral history interview with Richard P. Matthews, 1991.

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Oral history interview with Richard P. Matthews, 1991.

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The interview focuses Matthews's professional career as a librarian, which started with a cataloging position in Rollins College in Florida in 1949, full-time positions at Princeton University, and a cataloging position at Bowdoin College in Maine, before being hired as a social science librarian at Trenton State College in 1963. Topics include what the college was like in the 1960s, the resignation of President Heussler, the formation of faculty unions, the tenure issue for librarians, Special Collections and New Jersey History Collection he helped to expand as Special Collections Librarian, and his impression of Ralph Nader. People mentioned include Clayton Brower, Bob Cole, Virgil Gillenwater, Robert Heussler, Felix Hirsch, Robert Hutchins, Edwin Martin, Charles Packard, and Babe Ruth.

Transcript: 17 leaves ; 28 cm.Videorecording: 1 videocassette (VHS) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

The College of New Jersey, TCNJ Library

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The College of New Jersey, TCNJ Library

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Richard P. Matthews, Assistant Professor, Special Collections Librarian, receieved his undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago and his library degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1949, and worked at Trenton State College from 1963 to 1991. From the description of Oral history interview with Richard P. Matthews, 1991. (Trenton Free Public Library). WorldCat record id: 664367386 ...

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