{"id":7622,"date":"2017-01-11T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T16:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=7622"},"modified":"2017-05-30T10:49:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:49:10","slug":"obi-dr-dorothy-schmidt","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/obi-dr-dorothy-schmidt\/","title":{"rendered":"OBI, Dr. Dorothy Schmidt"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BA, MLS, Ph.D, librarian, born April 29, 1931, Wash ington DC, USA; married Fidelis Ogbuchukwu Obi 1954, two sons, two daughters; Education: BuffaloHigh School, Kenova, 1945-49, Berea College, Ky, 1949- 53, Oberlin College, Ohio, USA, 1953-54, Columbia University, New York, 1955-57, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 1968-74; Career: Appointed Graduate As sistant, Arts Department, Oberlin College, 1953-54; Trainee Cataloguer, New York Pub lic Library, 1954-57; Cataloguer, Eastern Ni geria Library Board, 1957-58 and 1959-60; Assistant Librarian (Cataloguing), UN Eco nomic Commission for Africa, 1960-61; As sistant Librarian, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 1962; Reference Librarian, Michi gan State University, USA, 1967-68: Sci ence Cataloguer, University of Pittsburgh, USA, 1969-71; Secretary, Management&#8221; Committee, Lady Ibiam Memorial Ecomenical Leadership Training Centre (Vo cational Training School for Girls), since 1976; member, Senate Advisory Committee on Foreign Students, UNN, Enugu Campus, 1978-83; Deputy University Librarian, Enugu Campus Library, UNN, since 1981; member, Beta Phi Mu(International Library Science Honor Society), since 1957; mem ber, Nigerian Library Association, since 1962, Secretary, 1965-67, member of Council and Chairman, Anambra State Branch, 1981-83; Secretary and Treasurer, Anambra State School Library Associations, 1971; member, Standing Committee (Section of School Libraries), International Federation of Library Associations, 1979-82; Publica tions: Manual ForSchool Libraries on Small Budgets. University Press, Ibadan, 1977; also contributed chapters in Books, inaddition to professional articles in nationaland interna tional learned journals; Hobbies: reading, writing, painting; Official Address: Enugu Campus Library, University of Nigeria, Enugu;Telephone: 042-333-859;Home: 24, Ikenga Crescent, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu State; Telephone: 042-335-879.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[1532],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-7622","biography","type-biography","status-publish","hentry","category-librarian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/7622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}