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<b>Subject:</b> LCCN: appreciating Barbara Tillett, part 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">LCCN, Feb. 11, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">ISSN 2324-6464<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">LCCN: appreciating Barbara Tillett, part 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">by Melanie Polutta, with material from an interview of Barbara Tillett on November 14, 2012<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">On December 16, 2012, Barbara Tillett retired from the Library of Congress, after 18 years as Chief of the Policy and Standards Division. Shortly before that time, I grabbed the opportunity
to interview her about her career. Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out how to share with you all the fascinating conversation that we enjoyed. I actually did a recording of that conversation, which enables me to share with you exactly what was said
in the interview, but the actual transcript would be a trifle too long. So what I would like to do is share some snippets of the conversation to highlight the work of Barbara Tillett, both before she came here to the Library of Congress and the highly important
work she did once she arrived. Even though it has been over a year since she left, she is still leaving a mark on the field of cataloging, as we can witness both from her continuing work as the Chair of the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (ending
in December 2013) and her receipt of the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#303030">ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2013 LITA Frederick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology,
and (with co-author Ron Murray of the LC Preservation Directorate) the ALCTS Outstanding Publication Award</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">at the ALA Annual Conference in June 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The first section of the interview that I would like to share with you discusses how Barbara ended up in librarianship. It wasn’t exactly planned…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">*******<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Going back quite a ways…I did actually find a link that listed a lot of your career…it gave me a sense of the timing of your career… What led you to librarianship, because your undergraduate
degree was in Mathematics?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: Yes, and I thought I was going to be a theoretical mathematician, and that just didn’t happen. After I got my degree, ah, it was a weird chain of events. There were all kinds of things
going on, but mostly, the Vietnam War was happening. The only jobs I could get with a math degree were doing missile projectiles for the US government, and I didn’t want that. At that time, my to-be husband Steve was in the Coast Guard during the Vietnam
War and he was stationed in Hawaii. So as an undergraduate, I had been working in the library, that was my job – in fact, I was making more money being a babysitter than being a student helper at the library, but never mind – I decided well, why not apply
for the library school? They had a library school at the University of Hawaii, and so I figured it would be a nice way for me to get closer to where he was, and so I did. Originally I had applied to be a math teacher in Hawaii, and they said, yes, come on
out, and when I got there, there were no jobs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Ah.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: So clearly, that path was not in the cards. I instead just went to library school there. Not just, I really enjoyed it, and while I was doing that I was working for the Hawaiian Institute
of Geophysics, and I helped them with a tsunami document retrieval system, using a keyword search capability that was very new at the time, and we microfilmed all of the tsunami literature and put it into sleeves to make microfiche out of it, and then put
the corresponding bibliographic data into an IBM system. I worked with the IBM contractor at the time, and so, we developed that, and I was able to use some of my math background there, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Uh-huh, so sounds like you had an early interest in technology then?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: Yeah, yeah,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Or stumbled into it, I’m not sure which.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: No, I always have, I’ve always been very interested in it.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: So, you feel it was a happy chance that led you into cataloging?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: Yeah, actually, I didn’t start with cataloging, I started, when I was a work study student at the University of Hawaii, as I was getting my degree, I was working with the cataloging department
there, using good old electric erasers, making catalog card corrections and filing. I was the fastest filer. I was working in cataloging just peripherally there but I was also working in acquisitions and I was also working in their serials check-in operation
and I helped them automate the serials check-in operation, um, moving from a Kardex file – I don’t know if you’re familiar with that –<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: I’ve heard of it – it’s spelled K-A-R-D-E-X. (</span><a href="http://kohakenya.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/r-i-p-the-kardex/"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://kohakenya.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/r-i-p-the-kardex/</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
& </span><a href="http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncimages/id/4560"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">http://library.digitalnc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ncimages/id/4560</span></a><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: M-hm, and actually LC had them for a while early on too. And moving from that to a computer system so we could have copies of the latest holdings of each of the serials at each of the
reference desks – because after library school, I was a reference librarian, science, technology, and medical reference. I helped develop that system for generating, essentially, a printout of all the holdings of the serials titles, an alphabetical list
of serials. So I was involved with lots of library technology early on, keyword indexes, that sort of thing. I started the Ocean Science Information Center at the same time, because of the Hawaiian Institute of Geophysics connection. I always do, like, five
things at once. My whole career has just been that kind of a pattern, yeah, [shakes her head]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><s><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p><span style="text-decoration:none"> </span></o:p></span></s></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: I didn’t really get to doing cataloging. After working there a couple of years the University of Hawaii essentially went bankrupt, and<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Really!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: Yes, I was on the Faculty Senate and everything, but with salaries being cut, many of us decided we had to leave, which was sad because we didn’t really want to, but a lot of us moved
to California. So at that time, I got a job at Scripps Institution of Oceanography as head of technical services, because I had all the background in doing serials and cataloging and acquisitions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: and tsunamis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: And tsunami document retrieval, very tied to Scripps, right. So, it was just a logical progression to be in charge of all of the technical services – all of the technical services was
like ten or twelve staff – and I was the original cataloger, so I was doing cataloging for everything, from maps and motion pictures of all of the research vessel trips that they had to typical monographs and documents – we had a huge government documents
collection – and international documents, as well as archives. So, it was a whole range, everything, serials, everything,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: So it gave you a good grounding in the sheer variety…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: And then I also trained other people as we moved to AACR2, because that was the era where we were switching
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">MKP: Yeah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">BT: from the old blue book to AACR2. I was training other people on that campus, and I also trained people from Ensenada, Mexico, which is where I met Ageo García, trained him in AACR2. [Ageo
helped LC and worked with Melanie on RDA training in Spanish language.]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">*******<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">And so we wait to find out what she did after finding her job too routine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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