Ralph Thomson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley

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Title Ralph Thomson, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Everett L. Cooley
Alternative Title No. 40, Ralph Thomson, interview by Everett L. Cooley
Creator Thomson, Ralph D., 1906-1992
Contributor Cooley, Everett L.; University of Utah. American West Center
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1983-09-19
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Date Digital 2014-09-16
Spatial Coverage Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5780993/
Subject Thomson, Ralph D., 1906-1992--Interviews; University of Utah--Employees--Biography; Librarians--Utah--Biography; University of Utah--History
Description Transcript (131 pages) of interview by Everett L. Cooley with librarian Ralph Thomson on September 19, 1983. This interview is no. 40 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. 18-A and 18-B
Abstract Thomson (b. 1906) discusses his background in rural Utah, attending Snow College, and his career at the University of Utah which culminated in becoming director of University Libraries. He also recounts his role in planning the library in the 1960s and establishing the State of Utah's library program. Interviewer: Everett L. Cooley
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Language eng
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Conversion Specifications Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display
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Topic Librarians--Biography; University of Utah
Setname uum_elc
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qv57sr