Marcia Jeanne Bates was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, USA in 1942. After a peripatetic childhood - attending 14 schools around the U.S. and Canada by the age of 14 - she completed high school in Lafayette, California, and went on to study languages in college at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. Graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1963, she entered the Peace Corps and taught English as a Foreign Language in Thailand high schools (Saraburi and Nongkhai) until 1965. Returning to the San Francisco Bay Area, she still did not know what to do with her life, and more or less stumbled into library science. She grew very interested in the field as a student at the University of California at Berkeley, and focused on the newly developing area of information science, with its questions of information organization, search, and automated retrieval, as well as information seeking behavior. She recieved and M.L.S. in 1967 and a Ph.D. in 1972.
She taught at the Universities of Maryland (1972-1976), Washington (1976-1981), and California - UCLA (1981-2004). She retired from UCLA as a "Professor VI," a special rank requiring additional review beyond that for a full professor. She also did extensive consulting, with government, foundation, and business clients, including "dot.com" companies. This exposure kept her oriented to the real world of information system design and devices.
The Bates papers are an excellent record of Bates' professional from Bates' time at UW, her long-term professorship at UCLA, and her work as a contractor. This collection contains materials such as drafts of Bates' papers, professional correspondence, records of talks and lectures, contractor reports and documents, class material, records from her time as Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, and other records from Bates' long career.
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Marcia Bates, 2020-02-11
The Marcia Bates papers were originally being processed at UCLA, but Bates decided to give the records to UW Special Collections and moved the materials to Seattle.
Includes Collection Note 1
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Details Bates' relationship with other prominent women in her field in paper titled 'The Four Sisters'
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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 'Factors Affecting Subject Catalog Search Success' dissertation paper
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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.
Box 12 corresponds with Collection note 14 on the Bates' Collection notes sheet
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.
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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.
Box 13 contents correspond to Box 15 on Bates Collections Notes. Documents are housed in original folders with added annotation. Records in Box 13 contain records of articles, talks, and papers given at conferences by Bates primarily in the 80s.
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.
Contents of Box 14 correspond to Box 17 on the Marcia Bates Collections Note Sheet. Primarily composed of records related to meetings, committees, and Bates' job as a professor at UCLA. There are also folders of workshop material.
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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.
Materials in this box are listed as corresponding to box 18 from Marcia Bates' Collection Notes but are actually records of Bates' time consulting for a thesaurus project for the LA Department of Water and Power that are listed under box 16.
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.
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Related to thesaurus project
Personal writing on abortion collection notes print out.
Contents of box 16 correspond to box 13 on Bates' Collection Notes. Made up of research material, class material, writings, and records on the proposed LIS merger at UCLA in 1993. There is also a large amount of reference material from the 1970s and 1980s that serves as an artifact of how literature searches were completed.
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
Corresponds to Box 18 Bates' Collection Notes
Contains correspondence from the US state department.
Refers to Marquis Who's Who directories.
Includes collection notes insert
Related to Box 20 on Bates Collection Notes. Material listed as being primarily from the 1990s
3 binders of data
Primarily administrative records from the UCLA LIS school and records from other professional committees Bates was on at UCLA.
Related to Box 21 on Bates Sheet.
Discusses aspects of LIS and education school merger and budget cuts.
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Futures for Library and Information Science, Multimedia Research Support for Scholars. Contains collection notes insert.
Corresponds to Box 22 on Bates Collection notes. Majority is articles, drafts, and papers from talks
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.
Corresponds to 23 on Marcia Bates collection notes. Primarily copies of articles and talks with corresponding records that surrounded their presentation or publication.
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.
Corresponds to Box 28 on Bates Collection Notes. Series of records from Bates' work as a UCLA Professor
Was originally grouped together in a hanging folder with 22/3.
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Advert for a education school program.
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American Association for the Advancement for Science
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Corresponds to box 25 on Bates collection notes. Records from different consulting jobs Bates had.
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
Corresponds to Box 26 on Bates Collection notes. Primarily related to the Multimedia Research Support for Getty Visiting Scholars project
Largely work documents for the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science including correspondence and literature related to that work.
Corresponds to Box 35 on Bates Collection Notes.
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.
Corresponds to Box 30 on Bates Collection Notes.
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Also contains a few records from consulting jobs
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Contains collection note insert. Records on Bates' work with the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences.
Corresponds to Box 31 on Bates Collection Notes.
Composed of copies of Bates' papers, annotated papers, notes, and multiple drafts.
Box corresponds to Box 36 on Bates' Collection Notes.
Appears to be backups of Bates' work and research
Corresponds to box 38 on Bates' Collection Notes.
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.
Corresponds to box 24 on Bates' Collection Notes.
Materials are submission to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science with manuscripts and attached correspondence.
Corresponds to Box 32 on Bates' Collections Notes.
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.
Corresponds to Box 33 on Bates Collection Notes.
Related to Getty Project. Contains collection note insert
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Materials are records from consulting projects that Bates was involved in.
Corresponds to Box 27 on Bates Collection notes.
Information Access Company
Also related to the Information Access Company
Human Computer Interaction Laboratory
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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.
Corresponds to box 29 on Bates Collection Notes.
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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.
Corresponds to box 34 on Bates collection notes.
Contains notes form Bates on UCLA weeding and collection insert.
Corresponds to boxes 37a-37b on Bates' collection notes. This box is a combination of two boxes created from material submitted to UCLA by Bates. The two boxes (37a-b) contain the only material UCLA kept as the rest was weeded. This folder marks the start of what used to be box 37A.
Association for Computing Machinery
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
This folder marks the start of what used to be box 37B.
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Pacific Island Association of Libraries, Archives
Includes collection note
This folder marks the start of consolidated materials from boxes 19 and 31 from Bates' collection notes.