Sanford Berman
| Sanford Berman | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 6, 1933 (age 83) Chicago |
| Education |
Political science, BA Library science, MS |
| Alma mater |
University of California, Los Angeles The Catholic University of America |
| Occupation | Librarian |
Sanford Berman (born October 6, 1933) is a librarian (cataloger) known for, radicalism, promoting alternative viewpoints in librarianship, and acting as a pro-active information conduit to other librarians around the world, mostly via public speaking, voluminous correspondence, and unsolicited "care packages" delivered via the U.S. Postal Service. Will Manley, columnist for the American Library Association (ALA) publication, American Libraries referred to Berman as a "bibliographic warrior".
Berman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He attended University of California at Los Angeles, where he earned a BA in Political Science with minors in Sociology, Anthropology, and English, and where he was elected a member of Phi Beta Kappa. After acquiring an MS in Library Science from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., Berman began work as a librarian. He worked for the U.S. Army Special Services Libraries, West Germany (1962–1966) where he helped edit an underground press GI magazine entitled, 'Yin/Yang', Schiller College, Kleiningersheim, West Germany (1966–1967); University of California at Los Angeles Research Library (1967–1968), where he rescued back runs of I. F. Stone's Weekly from the trash bin. University of Zambia Library, Lusaka, Zambia (1968–1970); Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University Library, Kampala, Uganda (1971–1972); and Hennepin County Library, Minnesota (1973–1999).
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