Marcia J. Bates papers, 1963-2019

Includes Collection Note 1

Details Bates' relationship with other prominent women in her field in paper titled 'The Four Sisters'

Includes newspaper clippings

Includes Dissertation notes in folder 12/12

Includes Marcia J. Bates' PhD Dissertation and related notes

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Includes 2019 note from Bates detailing regret at hosting a class instead of writing for publications

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Includes 2018 note from Bates explaining unfinished project

Includes 2018 notes from Bates explaining slides have been discarded after getting old

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Records from the UCLA Committee on Committees which picked people to sit on UCLA committees.

Records from the Music and Censorship Colloquium which Marcia moderated.

Committee records like reports and minutes from the UCLA Library Committee.

A collection of records related to Bates' professional life at UCLA.

Contains a grant application for a search strategy project that was turned down by the National Science Foundation.

General correspondence from 1973-1985.

Two applications for grants for a library training program and records related grants such as testing guidelines with human participants.

Philosophy and Psych literature from 1978 and 1979 with notes from Bates and some class documents from the Philosophy and Psychology classes these may have been pulled from.

Syllabi, notes, and literature on the topic of information politics pulled from a folder labeled Chartrand and Hayes who wrote one of the syllabi in this folder.

Contains a draft philosophy paper on split-brain research by an uncertain author. Papers are undated, but the date could be assumed to be around the late 70s since a syllabus is in this folder for a class on UW campus when Bates was teaching on campus.

Articles sent to Bates before their publication. It seems that Bates played some advisory role in the creation of some of these articles and was reviewing others for colleagues.

Miscellaneous article from UCLA colleague on technical services research.

Minutes, schedules, correspondence, and other miscellaneous record types from the California Cataloguing Colloquium.

More records of the CCC similar to the records in 12/16.

Records related to Marcia Bates advertising the student Medical Library Group of Southern California and Arizona grant.

Records from a conference that on Computer Interfaces and Information Retrieval Systems that Bates spoke at with a copy of her talk and correspondence.

Correspondence and applications for the Javits Fellowship which Bates helped review candidates for.

Folder of CVs and correspondence from some job opportunities from places like the University of Alabama Bates was fielding.

Records from hearings held on revising LIS curriculum which Bates played a role in organizing, unsure if she was heading the hearings.

Organizational records on the American Association for the Advancement of Science with a focus on candidates for election within the organization.

Records on talk Bates gave for the Iowa Library Association on the subject of using Library of Congress Subjects Headings in an online environment.

Records showing Bates' election as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement for Science. There are also a couple of UCLA newspaper and other periodicals

Correspondence, schedules, and a paper from this series of mini-conferences held at Stanford.

Drafts and article prep for Bates' article on berrypicking.

Contents similar to 13/1 with the inclusion of some later correspondence on the article.

Paper of and records about a talk Marcia gave for the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions.

Records related to Bates' article Where Should the Person Stop and the Information Search Begin .

Article and questionnaires by Bates.

Correspondence is on the topic of Librarianship for a New Millennium series which Gorman would edit.

Folder of submitted report to Getty Art History Information Program

Records related to presentation Bates gave as a panelist for the International Communication Association.

Records on Bates role as a reviewer for the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

Records of reviews Bates did for the Library Quarterly

Related to article Bates wrote for Library Resources and Technical Services.

Contains copies and records on the article "Optimal Use of Controlled Vocabularies" published in Online Magazine and conference.

The article presented was "Information: The Last Variable"

Contains article "Subject Access in Online Catalogs: A Design Model" with multiple drafts, notes, and reviews of the article.

"An Exploratory Paradigm for Online Information Retrieval" presented at the International Research Forum in Information Science.

"How to Use Controlled Vocabularies More Effectively in Online Searching".

One copy of "Fast Library Research, Techniques of Expert Researchers and Librarians".

Notes and comments on "Fast Library Research, Techniques of Expert Researchers and Librarians".

Correspondence, notes, and copies of "How to Use Information Search Tactics Online".

Publishing information and copies of "Fast Library Research, Techniques of Expert Researchers and Librarians".

A smaller prose piece by Bates, good read that comments on overcoming patriarchy through the allegory of slaying a dragon.

Many different records accumulated related to Bates' job as a UCLA LIS professor.

Materials for a UW workshop.

Materials from project Marcia Bates' contracted with California Systems Designs Inc. to create a thesaurus for their EZRA Records Management System.

Bates' experienced difficulties working with California Systems Designs where she was the victim of emotional workplace abuse from management. These records (primarily correspondence) give insight into this situation.

Related to thesaurus project

Personal writing on abortion collection notes print out.

Records related to proposed merger of UCLA's graduate library and info science program with the education school. Includes draft press releases, reports, and responses to a letter on the situation published by Bates.

Large amount unfoldered library literature search material that was used as a bibliography during that time.

Includes an article that was possibly never published and a collection note

Contains correspondence from the US state department.

Refers to Marquis Who's Who directories.

Includes collection notes insert

3 binders of data

Primarily administrative records from the UCLA LIS school and records from other professional committees Bates was on at UCLA.

Discusses aspects of LIS and education school merger and budget cuts.

Futures for Library and Information Science, Multimedia Research Support for Scholars. Contains collection notes insert.

American Society for Information Science and Technology

International Society for Knowledge Organization

Contains drafts, forms, memos, and various other records to Bates' work as a professor.

Contains collection notes insert.

California Library Association

Pacific Islands Association of Libraries and Archives. Contains Marcia Bates' thoughts on the conference, Indigenous Pacific island culture, and PIALA itself.

Listed as ASIS talk on folder, but the org is now known as the American Society of Information Science and Technology

Contains correspondence and pieces of a larger paper by these three. Bates worked with White and Wilson on For Information Specialists Interpretation of Reference and Bibliographic Work.

Contains collection notes insert.

Was originally grouped together in a hanging folder with 22/3.

Advert for a education school program.

American Association for the Advancement for Science

Centro de Investigaciones Regionales de Mesoamérica, Contains collection note insert

Not able to fully correlate, but seems related to the Information Access Company

Unsure exactly what project these consulting records were for

Raytheon BBN

Biopharmaceutical company

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation

Bloomberg, Matthew and Associates

Contains Bates collection note insert

Largely work documents for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science including correspondence and literature related to that work.

Contains collection notes insert. Records are administrative and departmental records from Bates UCLA work and also contains everyday work records such as reviews, correspondence, grades, and transcripts.

Also contains a few records from consulting jobs

Contains collection note insert. Records on Bates' work with the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.

Composed of copies of Bates' papers, annotated papers, notes, and multiple drafts.

Appears to be backups of Bates' work and research

Contains a series of reports, research, and notes for a project Bates undertook for the Getty Institute. Appears to be an evaluation of Getty's vocab search tool.

Materials are submission to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science with manuscripts and attached correspondence.

Contains a letter that appears to be from UCLA archives apologizing for weeding material.

Contents are a miscellaneous grouping of records on Getty projects Bates was involved with, literature, and various articles.

Related to Getty Project. Contains collection note insert

Materials are records from consulting projects that Bates was involved in.

Information Access Company

Also related to the Information Access Company

Human Computer Interaction Laboratory

Mixture of records from letters to the editor, volunteering and night teaching records, and records more closely related to Bates' professional work like the IAC or CLA Task Force.

Contains collection note insert

Information Access Company

California Library Association

Contains collection notes insert. Records are managerial records from the management of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.