Dissertation Information for Kenneth Gerard Peterson NAME: - Kenneth Gerard Peterson
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of California, Berkeley (USA) (1968)
ADVISORS: - Ray E. Held
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - [Indecipherable1] - J. Periam Danton
MPACT Status: Complete - Except Indecipherables
Title: The history of the University of California Library at Berkeley, 1900-1945
Abstract: Providing material resources, facilities, and services for its users was the primary goal toward which the University of California's library at Berkeley was directed during the period 1900-1945. The steps taken to accomplish this included: amassing a large research collection (number of columns increased from 80,000 in 1900 to over 1,250,000 in 1945); enlarging the old Bacon library and eventually replacing it in 1911 with the monumental Doe Library, which was also subsequently enlarged; developing a competent staff of trained library workers; providing an adequate plan of library government and administration, and organizing the library's research resources; and furnishing reference services and other facilities for supplying books and information.
The university library was able to develop successfully for several reasons: the desire of California's citizens to promote public education and the natural wealth of the State combined to provide the institutional structure and financial resources required for the library; moreover, the trends present in American higher education and particularly among California's faculty members strongly encourages the library's development. the men who served as University regents and president, recognized the library's fundamental importance to the academic community and provided adequately for its physical, financial, and staff needs. The university was also fortunate in having had capable men appointed to the position of librarian who understood the library's needs and were dedicated to meeting them.
The history of California's library contributed to an understanding of academic library developments during the first half of the twentieth century by showing that: (1) the university library had evolved as an integral part of the larger intellectual and research-oriented community of which it was a part; (2) adequate financial support was a key element in the library's development: (3) the figure of the strong administrator-librarian emerged (particularly during the twenties and thirties) in response to the increased size and complexity of the university library; and (4) the "book repository" view of academic libraries commonly held in the nineteenth century had been replaced by the mid-twentieth century concept of an information and use-oriented facility.
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