Information for All: Oral History Transcript: An Activist Librarian and Library Educator at the University of California, 1961-1984

Blake was on Berkeley School of Librarianship faculty from 1971-84. Contents: Early life and political upbringing in New York City; Hunter College, 1936-1940; American Student Union and Young Communist League; political interests and activism in southern California during WWII; working and attending the library school at the University of Southern California, 1956-1961; UCLA acquisitions department's gifts and exchange program, 1961-1970; Lawrence Clark Powell and the UCLA library; concurrent Ph. D. studies in English literature at UCLA, 1960s; appointment status of University of California librarians; the Librarians Association of the University of California; on the faculty of UC Berkeley's School of Librarianship, 1971-84; developing the school's field studies program; deanships of Patrick Wilson and Michael Buckland; serving on the California State Library board; effects of Proposition 13 on libraries; role of the public library in society; the future of librarianship; ongoing collaborations with H. Morton Newman