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MILDRED SCHUBERT BREILAND ALBUQUERQUE RESIDENT WAS PIONEER IN DIGITAL INFORMATION AGE. Mildred Schubert Breiland died peacefully on April 9, 2013 in Albuquerque, New Mexico at age 97 after a long and full life. She was predeceased by her parents and her husband John G. Breiland. She is survived by her sons, John R. Breiland his wife Wilma, William Breiland his wife Eileen, four grandchildren and 4 great- grandchildren. Mildred was born July 6, 1915, on a farm in Rock Port, Missouri. Her Parents were Otto Hugo Schubert and Eva Augusta Marlatt. She earned the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1933 from Wayne State Teachers College. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Library Science in 1940 from the University of Michigan. Mildred moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico and accepted a position as Head of the Serials Department at the University of New Mexico Library in the fall of 1941. She married John G. Breiland, an instructor in physics and meteorology at the University, 19 December 1942. After the birth of two sons, Mildred returned to library work in 1950 as Reference Librarian at the Albuquerque Public Library. Three years later, she became Head Librarian of the Albuquerque High School Library. In 1963 she received an appointment as Director to organize and direct a computerized central library processing center for the Albuquerque Public Schools. There were nearly 100 school libraries in the system. The Center gained the distinction of being one of the pioneers in utilizing electronic data processing methods. Mildred was invited by several public school systems throughout the United States to give lectures explaining the Albuquerque system, and worked with IBM to alter their machines to accommodate the new application of automated library cataloging. She served as Treasurer of the Joint Conference of the Southwest Library Association and of the Northern Plains Library Association and as President of the Albuquerque Library Association and the New Mexico Library Association and New Mexico Education Association Library Division. She is listed in Who's Who of American Women and in Who's Who in Librarianship. In her retirement, she traveled often and worked on the family genealogy. There is no memorial service in Albuquerque. A family service will be held in Rock Port, MO at a later time. In lieu of gifts or flowers, Mildred requested that a good deed be done in her memory.
        Published on: Sun April 14, 2013