Dorothy D. Gregor was the first, and so far in 2021, the only woman to be appointed as University Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley. Gregor’s 26-year career in librarianship included positions as university librarian at UC San Diego; chief of the Shared Cataloging Division of Processing Services at the Library of Congress; associate university librarian for technical services and head of the Serials Department at UC Berkeley; and reference librarian at the University of Hawaii. Gregor’s influence extended well beyond the Berkeley campus. She was a member of the both the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) Board of Directors, and the Board of Directors of the Center for Research Libraries.
For her distinguished service from 1968 to her retirement in 1994, Gregor received the 1994 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries. This national award recognizes outstanding accomplishments of an academic librarian who has worked in the areas of library automation or library management, and has made contributions towards the improvement of library services, or to library development or research. Willis Hubbard, Award Chair, commented “Choosing Dorothy Gregor to receive this prestigious award reflects her visions of automated services in libraries. She is recognized for her work in cataloging simplification, advocacy of bibliographic standards, and her early work with machine-readable cataloging. Her pioneering efforts to provide information to all users of a library through innovative uses of technology are consistent with the leadership of Hugh Atkinson.”
Gregor graduated from Occidental College in , 1961. She earned a Master of Arts, University Hawaii, 1963, and a Master of Library Science, University Texas, in 1968, Gregor was Certified in Library Management by the University California, Berkeley, 1976.
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Association of College & Research Libraries Honors 1994 Award Winners