Background
Voigt, Melvin John was born on March 12, 1911 in Upland, California, United States. Son of Adolf F. and Marie T. (Hirschler) Voigt.
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Voigt, Melvin John was born on March 12, 1911 in Upland, California, United States. Son of Adolf F. and Marie T. (Hirschler) Voigt.
AB, Bluffton College, 1933. ABLS, University Michigan, 1936. Master of Arts in Library Science, University Michigan, 1938.
Librarian Bluffton (Ohio) High School and Public Library, 1933-1935, University Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1935-1942. Director library public General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, 1942-1946. Librarian and professor Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1946-1952.
Assistant university librarian University California, Berkeley, 1952-1959. University librarian University California-San Diego, La Jolla, 1960-1976. Editor communications Ablex Public Corporation, since 1976.
Visiting professor University Michigan, 1951, University of California at Los Angeles, 1977. Visiting lecturer and scholar University Georgia. Consultant to numerous government agencies, federal and commercial organizations, since 1960.
President Lung Association San Diego County, 1969-1970. Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Library Association (president resources and technical services division 1960-1961, library education division 1962-1963, committee chairman), Special Libraries Association (vice president 1947-1948, president local chapter 1943-1946), Pennsylvania Library Association (president 1951-1952), American Society Information Science, International Communication Association, Speech Communication Association.
Married Susie M. Warkentin, December 28, 1933. Children: Marjorie Huskins, Dolores Scott, Paul W. Voigt.