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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
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Series 1: Career and Personal Files],
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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],
[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 6: Publications, Lectures, and Drafts
- Sub-Series 1: Articles
- Box 4
- Folder 20: Articles and Papers by and about Anita Schiller, 1964-1986
- Item 1: "A Survey of Salaries," ALA Bulletin, April 1964
- Item 2: "Reference Service: Instruction or Information," The Library Quarterly, 1965
- Item 3: "The Widening Sex Gap," Library Journal, March 15, 1969
- Item 4: "Academic Librarians' Salaries," College & Research Libraries, March 1969
- Item 5: "The Disadvantaged Minority: Women Employed in Libraries," American Libraries, April 1970
- Item 6: "Aware," American Libraries, 1971-1972
- Item 7: "Participative Management," College & Research Libraries, November 1973
- Item 8: "Women in Librarianship," Advances in Librarianship, 1974
- Item 9: "Anita Schiller's Librarianship," interview with Anita Schiller, Emergency Librarian, 1975
- Item 10: "Women in Librarianship, Status of," ALA Yearbook 1976
- Item 11: "Shifting Boundaries in Information," Library Journal, April 1, 1981
- Item 12: "Instruction or Information: What's Changed?" The Reference Librarian, 1981
- Item 13: "Who Can Own What America Knows?" A. Schiller and Herbert I. Schiller, The Nation, April 17, 1982
- Item 14: "Information as a Commodity: There's No Such Thing as a Free Hunch," Technicalities, June 1982
- Item 15: "Constraints on Public Access to Information," Library Issues: Briefing for Faculty and Administrators, November 1983
- Item 16: "Libraries, Public Access to Information and Commerce," Anita R. Schiller and Herbert I. Schiller, June 1986
- Item 17: "The Library as Emporium: Commercializing Information," Anita R. Schiller and Herbert I. Schiller, The Nation, October 4, 1986
- Item 18: "The Idea of the Marketplace and the Marketplace of Ideas"
- Item 19: "Bibliographic Databases - The Library Role"
- Item 20: "The Second Sex and the Library Profession"
- Folder 21: "Constraints on Public Access to Information," (Schiller, Library Issues, 4.2) and Research, 1981-1983
- Folder 22: "Letting the Private Information Sector Mind the Store," Draft and Notes, 1982
- Folder 23: "Libraries, Public Access to Information and Commerce," (A. Schiller and H. Schiller), Notes and Drafts, 1986
- Sub-Series 2: Chapters
- Box 4
- Folder 24: "Sex and Library Careers," Anita R. Schiller, in Women in Librarianship: Melvil's Rib Symposium, 1975
- Folder 25: Chapters, 1986-1987
- Item 1: Reference Service: Instruction or Information," Anita Schiller, in User Instruction in Academic Libraries: A Century of Selected Readings, 1986
- Item 2: On Reading - In the Year of the Reader, table of contents, 1987
- Sub-Series 3: Conferences
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Conferences, 1974-1986
- Item 1: Women in a Woman's Profession: Strategies - Proceedings of the Preconference on the Status of Women in Librarianship, July 1974
- Item 2: Program Information & Official Registration Form, Online '80
- Item 3: Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Colloquium on Intellectual Freedom, 1986
- Item 4: Metronet Conference, October 1984
- Sub-Series 4: Drafts
- Box 5
- Folder 2: Publication Drafts [3 folders]
- Sub-Series 5: Reports by Schiller
- Box 5
- Folder 3: Reports, 1966, 1968
- Item 1: Library Service in the Illinois Portion of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, Illinois State Library, 1966
- Item 2: Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Library, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, May 1968
- Folder 4: Reports, 1968-1970
- Item 1: Characteristics of Professional Personnel in College and University Libraries, Anita R. Schiller with James W. Grimm and Margo C. Trumpeter, Illinois State Library, February 1969
- Item 2: Final Report of the Activities Committee on New Directions for ALA and Subcommittee Reports, June 1970
- Anita R. Schiller in the acknowledgements.
- Folder 5: Commercial Online Services and the University Library: Some Impacts and Implications, 1976-1977, Council on Research Libraries
- Sub-Series 6: Reviews by and about Schiller
- Box 5
- Folder 6: Reviews, 1968-1984
- Item 1: "The Future of the Research Library, by Verner W. Clapp," Anita Schiller, AV Communication Review, Spring 1965
- Item 2: "Library Service in the Illinois Portion of the St. Louis Metropolitan Area, by Anita R. Schiller," Frederick Wezeman, The Library Quarterly, April 1967
- Item 3: "Discrimination Discussed," Laurent G. Denis and Kenneth H. Plate; and "Schiller Responds," Anita R. Schiller, American Libraries, July-August 1970
- Item 4: "Women and the Equal Rights Amendment: Senate Subcommittee Hearings on the Constitutional Amendment, 91st Congress, ed. by Catherine Stimpson," Anita R. Schiller, College & Research Libraries, January 1973
- Item 5: "Women on Campus: The Unfinished Liberation," Anita R. Schiller, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, September 1975
- Item 6: "Book Reviews: The Information Society: Issues and Answers: American Library Association's Presidential Commission for the 1977 Detroit Annual Conference," Anita R. Schiller, Library Research, 1979
- Item 7: "Career Profiles and Sex Discrimination in the Library Profession, prepared by Kathleen M. Heim and Leigh S. Estabrook," Anita Schiller, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, January 1984
- Item 8: "Fear of Success Theory and Librarians: A Preliminary Study," Anita R. Schiller
- Sub-Series 7: Speeches and Talks
- Box 5
- Folder 7: Berkley Talk and Notes
- Folder 8: Information Consumers and the Marketplace of Ideas - Tape #58 - Online 1980, San Francisco, CA, November 1980
- Cassette tape
- Folder 9: Information Dictatorship?: Availability of Government Information On-line - AALL 77th Annual Meeting, July 1-4, 1984
- Cassette tape
- Folder 10: Librarian Salaries, May 1, 1975
- Cassette tape
- Folder 11: "Now, You Can Buy America," (talk, Schiller) - draft and research, 1976-1982
- Folder 12: Public Library Association - The Future & Funding of Humanities Programs in Libraries, 1991
- Cassette tape
- Folder 13: Question of Balance Conference, St. Paul, Minnesota, October 1982
- Video Tape
- Folder 14: Unlabeled Cassette, 1976
- Cassette tape
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Series 4: Professional Associations and Organizations],
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Series 5: Project Files],
[Series 6: Publications, Lectures, and Drafts],
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Series 7: Research Files],
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