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Collection Overview

Title: Subject File, 1955-1960

ID: 30/29/6

Primary Creator: Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Extent: 9.0 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject

Subjects: Adult Services Division, Allerton Park Conference, Fund for Adult Education, Library Community Project, Warncke, Ruth

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Library-Community Project subject files of the Adult Services Division. The LCP was supported by the $200,000 grants from the Fund for Adult Education for 1955- 57 and 1957-59. The purpose was to assist libraries in developing long-term adult education programs based on analysis of community needs. The series includes follow-up reports from participants in the 1954 Allerton Park Conference on adult education (1956-57), subject files on consultant services in adult education offered to libraries by ALA through LCP (1955-60), correspondence of LCP director Ruth Warncke (1955-60), material on selection of applicants for LCP grants, reports and informational materials on projects in states granted LCP funds, including Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Wisconsin, and background papers and reprint articles on adult education.

Biographical Note

In 1926, the Council established the Board of Library and Adult Education to promote interest and activities in the area of library service to adult education, to act as advisor and as an information center, and to implement and assist in library related projects of adult education (1). To accomplish these goals the Board sponsored roundtables and workshops and published reports, findings, and the quarterly magazine, Adult Education and the Library, which was incorporated into the ALA Bulletin in 1930. As the Board grew in scope, it became the Adult Education Board in 1937, the Adult Education Section of the Division of Public Libraries in 1946 (2) and the Adult Services Division in 1959 (3). In 1972, Adult Services Division joined with the Reference Division to form the Reference and Adult Services Division (RASD), establishing the new goals of "stimulating and supporting full access to library services which are user oriented. The Division seeks actively to foster the fullest use of all media in meeting the educational, research, information, recreational, and social interests and needs of users of all types of libraries in every subject field" (4).

RASD maintains standing committees and sections reflecting the scope of adult services including the Interlibrary Loan Committee, Adult Library Materials Committee, Committee to Advise Publishers of Reference Books and Indexes, Catalog Use Committee, and Machine Assisted Reference Services (MARS). RQ, RASD's quarterly journal, began in 1960 and the Division also authors annual book lists such as Notable Books and Outstanding Reference Books. The Division annually awards four different medals and citations to foster excellence in reference publication and librarianship.

Subject/Index Terms

Adult Services Division
Allerton Park Conference
Fund for Adult Education
Library Community Project
Warncke, Ruth

Administrative Information

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 4/26/74

Other Note: 6 Pages

PDF Box/Folder List

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/3029006a.pdf

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