Theresa Salazar Is New Curator for Bancroft Collection
As of July 1, Theresa Salazar is Curator of the Bancroft Collection of Western Americana, replacing Bonnie Hardwick. Salazar has been special collections librarian at the University of Arizona in Tucson for the past decade, where she has built collections on the Southwest, northwestern Mexico, Mexican Americans, and Native American literature and added to fine press and book art materials. Before that she was a print specialist at the New York Public Library (1986-89) and a manuscript librarian at the Library of Congress (1985). In 1981-82 she was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Salazar received her MLS degree from Columbia in 1984. She also has an MA in English and a BA in art history from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.
Says Bancroft director Charles Faulhaber: "We're delighted with Theresa's appointment as Curator of the Bancroft Collection. She's exactly the kind of person we were looking for when we began the search for Bonnie's successor. She brings broad experience in all the areas that we're interested in, particularly the Hispanic impact on the history of the American West, to which she brings personal as well as professional qualifications."
First Among Equals
From left are Charles Faulhaber; Willie Brown; John De Luca, president of the Wine Institute and a close friend of Brown's; and UC President Richard Atkinson.
At a festive event Feb. 27 at Blake House in Kensington, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown was presented with his oral history, "First Among Equals: California Legislative Leadership, 1964-1994."
The history was prepared by Gabrielle Morris of Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office. Guests included former UC presidents Jack Peltason and David Saxon, UC Regent Bill Bagley, and Ernest Gallo.President Atkinson surprised Brown by also awarding him the UC Presidential Medal. Brown graduated from Hastings College of the Law and was a UC Regent from 1980 to 1995.
Brown, who arrived uncharacteristically early, charmed guests with stories of his long and variegated political career. Of the oral history he said, "there's no way for you to know how much this means to me."
New Oral History Catalog Covers Two Decades
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Bancroft's Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) has published Catalogue II (1980-1998), available in hard copy and on the web. It is twice the length of Catalogue I (1954-1979), with more than 600 new oral histories briefly summarized. Attractively bound and printed in the typographic tradition of Lawton Kennedy, Catalogue II was underwritten by the San Francisco Foundation, the Bancroft Library Publications Fund, and John and Barbara Rosston.
It is priced at $14.50, plus $2.50 shipping and handling. A few copies of Catalogue I are available for readers who wish to purchase both catalogues at $20 plus $2.50 shipping and handling. Catalogue orders should be addressed to:
Regional Oral History Office
486 Library, University of California
Berkeley CA 94720-6000
For more information, contact ROHO
phone: 510/642-7395
fax: 510/642-7589
email: roho@library.berkeley.edu
Both catalogues can be accessed on the web at library.berkeley.edu/BANC/ROHO
Volume 115
Fall 1999
Table of Contents
Bancroft's Marvelous Medieval French Manuscripts
From the Director: Biotech at Bancroft
Cataloging the Teatro Espaņol Collection
New (Old) Mark Twain Found in Bancroft Scraps
Eleanor Swent Puts Her Mining Expertise to Work
Russian Emigré Wins First Hill-Shumate Prize
Theresa Salazar Is New Curator for Bancroft Collection
New Oral History Catalog Covers Two Decades
