Oral history with Gloria Werner, 2002

Resource Information

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Label

Oral history with Gloria Werner, 2002

Statement of responsibility

interviewed by Diana Meyers Bahr

Inclusive dates

2002

Creator

• Werner, Gloria

Contributor

• Bahr, Diana Meyers, 1930-
• University of California, Los Angeles, Oral History Program

Interviewee

• Werner, Gloria
• Werner, Gloria

Interviewer

• Bahr, Diana Meyers, 1930-

Subject

• Academic library directors -- California | Los Angeles -- Interviews
• Integrated library systems (Computer systems) -- California | Los Angeles
• Darling, Louise
• oral histories
• Charles E. Young Research Library
• Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
• Werner, Gloria

Genre

• Interviews
• oral histories

Language

eng

Summary

The interview begins with Werner's childhood in Seattle, Washington, continues with her education at Oberlin College and U. of Washington in Seattle, then moves to her career at UCLA, where she started as a librarian in the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library and culminated her career as University Librarian for UCLA. Major topics of discussion include the automation of the UCLA library system, the consolidation of libraries, building projects and physical space, instructional development, special collections, and her involvement in professional associations

Note

Forms part of: Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Is part of

• Oral History collection, Dept. of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

Additional physical form

Audio recordings also may be accessed in the UCLA Department of Special Collections by special arrangement.

Biographical or historical data

Gloria Werner was born and raised in Seattle, Wash. and graduated from Franklin High at age 16; she attended Oberlin College in Ohio and received her B.A. in French in 1961. She returned to Seattle to attend U. Wash. to study librarianship and received her M.L. from there in 1961. She was chosen by Louise Darling to participate in the UCLA Biomedical ("Biomed") Library's innovative Graduate Training Program in Medical Librarianship from Sept. 1962-Aug. 1963. Upon completion of that program, she began working at Biomed, starting out as a reference librarian, working her way through the ranks to become the head of the Biomedical Library (1979-1983) after Louise Darling's retirement. Werner moved to the Research Library in 1983, where she worked her way through the administrative ranks to become the University Librarian (1989-2002). In her career she was involved with library and university service, was active in professional organizations and lectured, published and did some consulting. She retired from the UCLA Library in 2002.

Cataloging source

CLU

Form designation

oral history transcript

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Location of originals duplicates

The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.