Isabel Espinal: oral history with Robert S. Cox

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Title:
Isabel Espinal: oral history with Robert S. Cox
Description:
Interview with Isabel Espinal, a Librarian V. Educated at MIT, Princeton, Berkeley; studied to be a public librarian -- came to UMass reference department under Director Margo Christ as a diversity hire into a staff split between those who wanted change and those who resisted -- changes in profession and student users -- changes in reference services -- cultural and racial diversity and the library.
Interviewee:
Espinal, Isabel
Interviewer:
Cox, Robert S., 1958-
Date:
June 2, 2014
Format:
Audio recordings (nonmusical)
Genre:
Oral histories (document genres)
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 001 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
UMass Amherst Sesquicentennial Oral History Collection
UMass Amherst Oral History Collection
Series:
Staff and professional
Subjects:
Libraries--Interviews
University of Massachusetts Amherst--History
University of Massachusetts Amherst--Staff
Academic libraries--Massachusetts
Organizational change
Reference services (Libraries)
Diversity in the workplace
University of Massachusetts Amherst. University Libraries
Places:
Massachusetts
Extent:
1 file : 01:12:38
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/murg1_207_2013-i151
Terms of Use:
Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
Amherst (Mass.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
murg1_207_2013-i151