The Yuri Nakata Lectures collection includes recordings and transcripts from a lecture series on public access to government information hosted by the UIC Library. The digital collection includes the lectures from 2005 and 2006.
Yuri Nakata was a Documents Librarian at the UIC Library who retired in 1979.
From UIC Today, January 19, 2016:
"Nakata established a collection of more than 500,000 government publications for the library and developed a model for public use of government documents. In her honor, the library established the Nakata Lectures, a series on public access to government information.
Born Yuri Ike in Seattle in 1919, Nakata attended Colorado State College after her release from a World War II-era internment camp, and graduated in 1947 with a degree in education. She moved to Chicago with her husband, Tatsuo Nakata, and worked for many years for the American Library Association.
Nakata earned a graduate degree from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School. At UIC, she was an associate professor and head of the UIC Library Documents Department. She was honored with a 'Documents to the People' award by the Congressional Information Service and the Government Documents Roundtable of the American Library Association."