Brief Description: Papers of Anita R. Schiller, librarian at the University of California San Diego and ALA Honorary Member (1959-2010), including correspondence, career and personal files, conference materials and presentations, publications and reviews, notes, course materials, clippings, and project and research files concerning copyright, intellectual property, fair use, salary and pay equity, statistics, women in libraries, government documents and information, databases, access and restrictions, private and public sectors, automation, library technology, cable and telecommunications, computers, Library of Congress, National Archives, Office of Management and Budget, document delivery and interlibrary loans, information policy and resources, University of California San Diego, the Liphart Elections Archives, Council on Library Resources, California Council for the Humanities, Schiller's Honorary Membership, ALA Equality Award, professional association memberships and documents.

Record Series Number: 97/1/82

Created by: Schiller, Anita R. (1926-2021)

Volume: 22.8 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 07/06/2021.

Arrangement: Arranged by topic, then alphabetical or chronological thereunder.

Biographical Note for Schiller, Anita R. (1926-2021) : Anita R. Schiller was born in 1926 in New York. Schiller earned a master’s degree in library science from Pratt Institute. She worked at the University of Illinois Library and as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University before working at the University of California San Diego in 1970. At UCSD, she served as a reference librarian, social science bibliographer, and data services librarian until she retired in 1991. In 1968, Schiller published “Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Libraries,” a landmark study on the pervasive patten of gender inequality within the library profession. She continued to study salary disparities between male and female librarians through the 1970s. Schiller was an active member of ALA, serving on ALA Council, the SRRT Feminist Task Force, the Committee on the Status of Women in Librarianship, and the President's Task Force on Better Salaries and Pay Equity for Library Workers. In 1985, she received the ALA Equality Award and in 2007 receive an ALA Honorary Membership. Schiller died in 2021.

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Acquisition Notes: Dan Schiller & Zach Schiller