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By Cara Bertram; Claire Drone-Silvers
Collection Overview
Title: Anita R. Schiller Papers, 1959-2010
Predominant Dates:1970-1989
ID: 97/1/82
Primary Creator: Schiller, Anita R. (1926-2021)
Extent: 22.7 Cubic Feet
Arrangement: Arranged by topic, then alphabetical or chronological thereunder.
Date Acquired: 07/06/2021
Subjects: Bibliographic Data Bases, Copyright, Electronic Resources, Equality Award, Fair Use (Copyright), Feminist Task force, Srrt, Government Documents Round Table (GODORT), Government Publications, Honorary Membership, Information Technology, Intellectual Freedom, Library Technology, Research, Salaries, Schiller, Anita R., Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), Status of Women, Women Librarians
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
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.
Biographical Note
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.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
The American Library Association Archives
Access Restrictions:
This series has restrictions. Please contact the Archives for further information.
Due to the technical requirements to access audiovisual materials, advance notice of 2 to 3 weeks is required to access audiovisual items onsite. Please contact the Archives for further information.
Acquisition Source:
Dan Schiller & Zach Schiller
Appraisal Information:
Removal of duplicates and publications available within the archives/library.
PDF Box/Folder List
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Career and Personal Files],
[Series 2: Conference Materials and Proceedings],
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Series 3: Notes and Outlines],
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Series 4: Professional Associations and Organizations],
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Series 5: Project Files],
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Series 6: Publications, Lectures, and Drafts],
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Series 7: Research Files],
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Series 8: Unsorted Clippings and Notes],
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Series 9: Artifacts],
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- Series 2: Conference Materials and Proceedings
- Box 2
- Folder 13: Academic Libraries - Conferences on Cutbacks, 1985-1986
- Folder 14: American Association for the Advancement of Science Seminar, 1984
- Folder 15: American Library Association - Annual Conference, 2001
- Folder 16: American Library Association - Midwinter Meeting - Legislative Workshop, January 7, 1989
- Folder 17: American Library Association - Midwinter Meeting, 2007
- Folder 18: American Society for Information Science - Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1976, 1978
- Folder 19: Conference on Fair Use, 1997
- Folder 20: Conference on the Global Responsibility of Law Librarians, 1989
- Folder 21: Delivering Electronic Information in a Knowledge-Based Democracy - Summary of Conference Proceedings, July 14, 1993
- Folder 22: Eusidic [European Association of Scientific Information Dissemination Centres] Conference - The On-line Age: Plans & Needs for On-line Information Retrieval, Proceedings, December 4-5, 1975
- Folder 23: First International Conference on Conflict Resolution and Peace Studies (Fiji), 1986
- Folder 24: International Federation of Library Associations - Booklet 10: Division of General Research Libraries - Section of National Libraries, August 1989
- Folder 25: International Federation of Library Associations - International Conference on Government Publishers, Printers, Librarians, and Users, 1982
- Folder 26: International Youth Forum of Peace and Friendship (Chalki, Greece), 1986
- Folder 27: Mary C. Richardson Lecture - Libraries Communication and International Theme, Dr. Luther H. Evans, 1964
- Folder 28: Metronet Conference - A Question of Balance: Evolving Responsibilities in an Information Society, 1982
- Folder 29: National Online Information Meeting, March 25-27, 1980
- Folder 30: Online '80 Conference - Shifting Public and Private Sector Boundaries, 1980
- Folder 31: Pittsburgh Conference - Resource Sharing in Libraries, September 29-October 1, 1976
- Folder 32: Pittsburgh Conference - Online Revolution in Libraries, 1977
- Folder 33: Pittsburgh Conference - Toward the White House Conference: The Structure and Governance of Library Networks in the Light of a Developing Technology, November 6-8, 1978
- Folder 34: Psychology Abstracts - Data Base Workshop, 1975-1976
- Folder 35: Public Library Association Conference, 1991
- Folder 36: Special Libraries Association Conference - President's Task Force on the Value of the Information Professional, 1987
- Folder 37: Union on Democratic Communication, 1990
- Folder 38: Washington Conference on Library and Information Services, 1988-1991
- Folder 39: Women in a Woman's Profession: Strategies - Proceedings of the Preconference on the Status of Women in Librarianship, 1974
Browse by Series:
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Series 1: Career and Personal Files],
[Series 2: Conference Materials and Proceedings],
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Series 3: Notes and Outlines],
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Series 4: Professional Associations and Organizations],
[
Series 5: Project Files],
[
Series 6: Publications, Lectures, and Drafts],
[
Series 7: Research Files],
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Series 8: Unsorted Clippings and Notes],
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Series 9: Artifacts],
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