Oral Histories
Interview of Andrew H. Horn
UCLA university archivist. Founder and dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Library Services.
- Subtitle:
- The UCLA Library School
- Series:
- Interviews not in a series, part one
- Topic:
- UCLA and University of California HistoryUCLA Faculty
- Biographical Note:
- UCLA university archivist. Founder and dean of UCLA’s Graduate School of Library Services.
- Interviewee:
- Horn, Andrew H.
- Supporting Documents:
- Records relating to the interview are located in the office of the UCLA Library's Center for Oral History Research.
- Language:
- English
- Copyright:
- Interviewee Retained Copyright
- Abstract:
- Library school at UCLA proposed by Everett Perry, Los Angeles city librarian, 1930; library training school at Los Angeles Public Library founded by Charles Lummis; opposition to UCLA library school from Dean Sydney B. Mitchell of University of California, Berkeley, School of Librarianship; support from regent Edward A. Dickson; first year of operation, UCLA School of Library Service, 1959-60; Chancellor Raymond B. Allen; Vern O. Knudsen, dean of Graduate Division; support from Dean Perry Danton of Berkeley library school; early administrative problems; efforts toward accreditation with American Library Association and California State Board of Education; laboratory book collection policy; scholarships; support from Gold Shield; projections for future of school.