Interview of Margaret Goodrich on her twenty-four year civil service career in the U.S. Army Library Service
Margaret Goodrich talks about her twenty-four year civil service career in the U.S. Army Library Service and running libraries for military personnel around the world. Goodrich talks about her employment prior to joining the Library Service and says that in July 1945 she became the first Army librarian assigned to a post in Germany. Goodrich says that she left the Army after six years but rejoined during the Korean conflict and took a position as a librarian at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center in Denver. She discusses her U.S. and overseas assignments, a librarian's duties, and a particularly hazardous episode in Vietnam when the car she was riding in was fired upon, forcing her to duck for cover with fellow passenger, actor James Franciscus. Goodrich is interviewed by Marjorie Brown.
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- In Collections
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Date
- 198x
- Interviewees
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Goodrich, Margaret (Librarian)
- Interviewers
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Brown, Marjorie
- Subjects
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Goodrich, Margaret (Librarian)
United States. Army Library Service
Korean War (1950-1953)
Vietnam War (1961-1975)
World War (1939-1945)
Libraries
Library science
Military participation--Female
Military post libraries
Soldiers' libraries
Colorado
Germany
- Material Type
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Sound recordings
Interviews
- Language
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English
- Extent
- 00:11:10
- Holding Institution
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Vincent Voice Library
- Call Number
- Voice 33963
- Catalog Record
- http://catalog.lib.msu.edu/record=b11794358
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