Reminiscences of Adolf K. Placzek, 1985.

Biographical Note

Librarian, Art historian

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Vienna; switch from medical studies to art history, University of Vienna; escape from Nazis to England, 1939-1940; M.L.A., Columbia University School of Library Service, 1942; enlistment in United States Army, 1942-46; assistant librarian, Avery Architectural Library, Columbia University, 1949-59, Acting Librarian, 1959: collection of famous trade catalogues drawings, development of Avery Periodical Index; Professor of Art History, Columbia, 1972-80, Professor Emeritus, 1980- ; general editor, architectural books, DaCapo Press; contributions to McMillan Encyclopedia of Architects

Subjects

• Art--History--Study and teaching.
• Art historians--Interviews.
• Columbia University--Faculty--Interviews.
• Columbia University. Avery Architectural Library. Avery Periodical Index.
• Columbia University. Department of Art History.
• Interviews.
• Librarians--Interviews.
• Library catalogs.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Placzek, Adolf K.--Interviews.
• Reference services (Libraries)
• Stein, Rose (Rózsi), interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• World War, 1939-1945--Nazism--Austria.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1992