John N. Schacht
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4242 Morel Circle NE |
John Schacht (john-schacht@uiowa.edu) |
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Iowa City, IA 52240 |
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Scholarships, Honors and
Awards
Charles B. Croft Scholarship, Wesleyan University (1960-64)
Phi Beta Kappa, Wesleyan University (1964)
Dutcher Prize in History, Wesleyan University (1964)
Herbert Hoover Scholarship, Hoover Presidential Library Association,
Inc. (1989-90)
Arthur Benton Reference Services Professional Development Award
(2002)
Employment
-Summer and part-time, 1958-66: busboy, dishwasher, waiter, taxi
driver, dairy operative
-1964-65, 1967-68: Research Assistant, UI History Dept. (1/3
time)
-1965-66, 1966-67: Teaching Assistant, UI History Dept. (1/2
time)
-1966, 1967 summer sessions: Instructor, UI History Dept. (1/2
time)
-1968-72 Research Assistant, Communications Workers of America-UI
Center for Labor and Management Oral History Project (1/2 time
1968-69, 1971-72, full time 1969-71; conducted tape-recorded
interviews and supervised the transcription of tapes and other
clerical work.)
-1975-76 Circulation attendant, UI Libraries (3/8 time)
-1976-77 Research Assistant to the Director, Graduate School of
Library Science, University of Illinois (1/3 time)
August 1977 until retirement in August 2003: Librarian I
(1977-80), Librarian II (1980-86), and Librarian III (1986- ) in the
Reference Dept., UI Libraries.
Major duties and responsibilities have been:
-Reference and information desk duty (1977- )
-Executive assistant, Center for the Study of the Recent History of
the United States [CSRHUS] (1978-83) (CSRHUS and its
successor, "CRUSH" [Center for Recent United States History],
were/are a consortium of the UI, the State Historical Society of Iowa
[SHSI], and the Hoover Presidential Library. Researched
conference topics, helped organize conferences, edited volumes of
papers presented at those conferences.)
-Fee/appointment-based searching of Dialog and BRSonline
bibliographic databases (1983-91)
--User instruction: general (1977- ) and (1984- ): many courses in
history; occasional courses in law, American studies,
African-American studies, communications, nursing, education, and
geography
-Collection Development: selector for American History (1985- );
coordinator for American Studies (1990- )
-Coordinator and presenter: library instruction for annual National
Summer Institute in Forensics, (1988- )
-Research consultations by appointment (1989- ); coordinator of
research consultations (1999- );
-Coordinator and presenter: "Library Resources for Historical
Research" (sessions given annually 1990-94); "Electronic Resources
for Historical Research" and "Primary Sources for Historical
Research" (1995- ).
-Partner with faculty in creating course Web pages (UI Libraries'
'TWIST' program) (1997- )
-Chair: Task Force on User & Staff Instruction/Public Relations
for online public access catalog (1987-90); task force charged with
formulating UI Libraries' Professional Leave Policies (1992-93);
Publications Review Advisory Committee (1997-2001 )
Selected Publications
Book
-The Making of Telephone Unionism, 1920-1947 New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1985
Edited books
-Three Faces of Midwestern Isolationism: Gilbert N. Haugen,
Herbert C. Hoover, Henry A. Wallace, Iowa City: CSRHUS,
1980.
-Three Faces of Midwestern Isolationism: Gerald P. Nye, Robert E.
Wood, John L. Lewis Iowa City: CSRHUS, 1981.
-The Quest for Security: Papers on the Origins and the Future of
the American Social Insurance System, Iowa City: CSRHUS,
1982).
Articles
-"Toward Industrial Unionism," Labor History, 16 (1975):
5-36.
-"The Providers," The Palimpsest, 63 (Jan. 1982): entire
issue.
-"Why Pre-eminent Americans of the 1930s So Often Turned Out to be
from Iowa," Des Moines Sunday Register, Aug. 22, 1982, p.
3c.
-"American Labor and Working Class History at Iowa, Part I," Books
at Iowa no. 53 (Nov. 1990): 29-59. Part II Books at Iowa
no. 54 (April 1991): 31-56. [link
to this two-part article]
-"Labor History Resources in the University of Iowa Libraries, The
State Historical Society of Iowa/Iowa City, and The Herbert Hoover
Presidential Library." IN Labor History Archives in the
United States: A Guide for Researching and Teaching, ed. by
Daniel J. Leab and Philip P. Mason (Detroit: Wayne State University
Press, 1992), pp. 195-202 (an update of a similarly titled 1990
Labor History article).
-"Labor History in the Academy: A Layman's Guide to a Century of
Scholarship," Labor's Heritage 5 (winter 1994): 4-21.
-"Linking Iowa History Researchers with UI-Held Primary Sources in
Microformat," Recent U.S. (newsletter of CRUSH) 2(1): 3-4
(Jan. 1996).
Book reviews:
Labor History 20 (1979): 458-60; Labor History 26
(1986): 132-34; Journal of American History, 75 (1988):
282-84.
Selected Oral Presentations
-Moderator and commentator, multi-paper session entitled
"Labor and Industry in 20th-Century Iowa," at Iowa Heritage EXPO '94
(sponsored by the State Historical Society of Iowa, the Iowa
Sesquicentennial Commission, et. al.) 6/10/94, Des Moines, IA.
-Principal organizer, panel moderator, and presenter "Sights, Sounds
and Sources of 19th/20th Century America: Teaching and Research
Materials on CD-ROM, Laserdisk, and the Internet," (sponsored by
CRUSH) 2/24/95, UI.
Professionally-Related Organizational
Activity
-President, UI Graduate Assistants Union, American
Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO (1968-69).
-Board Member, CRUSH, and member of CRUSH's Committee on Seminars
(1994- )
-Member, Library Advisory Committee of The State Historical Society
of Iowa, 1999- .
-Member Iowa Library Association/ACRLMembership Committee,
1995-2000.
-American Library Association: ALA co-chair, 2/98-7/00, and
member,7/97- 6/01, AFL-CIO/ALA Joint Committee on Library Services to
Labor Groups. Member, Sessions Memorial Award Committee, 7/00-6/02.
Member, Immroth Memorial Award Committee, 9/96-6/98.
Current Professionally-Related Memberships
-State Historical Society of Iowa; United Auto Workers,
Local 1981 (National Writers Union) AFL-CIO; UI History of Medicine
Society -- member of its Lecture Committee.
Consultancies
-With Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1983:
authored report, "Humanities Resources in the Kirkwood Community
College Learning Resource Center: An Assessment of Holdings and
Needs," a component of Kirkwood's successful application for a
$300,684, two-year grant (1984-86) aimed at improving teaching and
library resources in the humanities.
-With American College Testing, Iowa City, IA, 1987: for the chapter
entitled "Exploring Your College Library" in the book Building
Better Study Skills: Practical Methods for Succeeding in
College (Iowa City: American College Testing, 1989).
updated 9/29/09