"A Dukedom Large Enough": Forty Years in Northern California's Public and Academic Libraries, 1936-1976 2000, x, 158 pp. Childhood in Marin County, CA; living in International House, UC Berkeley, master's degree in Latin; School of Librarianship,...
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"A Dukedom Large Enough": Forty Years in Northern California's Public and Academic Libraries, 1936-1976 2000, x, 158 pp. 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 bibiliography; working with LeRoy Merritt, Leslie Clarke, Roger Levenson; William J. Monihan and University of San Francisco Gleeson Library; retirement: Associate in The Bancroft Library. See less
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I think Tamalpais was a very good high school. We had several rather remarkable teachers. Almost everyone who took the academic course had Latin with Miss [Ruby] Scott, who lived in Berkeley. I don't think she ever taught anywhere except Tamalpais. But she was a much admired teacher, one...