Finding Aid for H. Vail Deale Papers, 1952-1977, 1980, 1983-84, 1986 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: H. Vail Deale Papers, 1952-1977, 1980, 1983-84, 1986

ID: 97/1/24

Primary Creator: Deale, H. Vail (1915-)

Extent: 1.3 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically by date and alphabetically by college name

Date Acquired: 01/21/1975. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Beloit College, Deale, H. Vaile, International Relations Committee, Midwest Academic Libraries Conference, Planning, Library

Languages: English

Papers of H. Vaile Deale, librarian of Beloit College, contains correspondence (1955-60) and descriptive brochures, guides, newspaper articles, dedication programs, magazine articles, postcards and handwritten notes on college and university library buildings assembled by Mr. Deale to assist in planning a college library, and colleges include Alma, Carleton, Denison, DePaul, Drury, Grinnell, John Carroll, Knox, Marietta, Marquette, Michigan, Penn Military, Purdue, St. Louis, Valparaiso and Wabash, and Deale's files as official historian and archivist of the Midwest Academic Librarians Conference (MALC), and MALC files (1954-74), include conference materials, brochures, correspondence planning documents and reports of H. Vail Deale, Katherine M. Stokes, Maurice W. Boatman, William C. Roselle, Theodore F. Welch, and Oivind M. Hovde. Also included are files covering the ALA Budget Assembly, the International Relations Committee (1975-77), the Council on Library Development (1974-75), and a US-USSR Report (1976-77).

Henry Vail Deale was born in 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland. He received his B.A. from DePauw University in 1936, a B.L.S. from the University of Illinois Library School in 1937, and an M.A. in English Literature from Drake University in 1950. During World War II Deale was a conscientious objector, and served as a part-time librarian for a civilian public service camp. Deale served as the director of libraries at Beloit College in Wisconsin from 1953 to 1980. He also received two Fulbright awards, the first of which was served in 1965-66 building the first academic library in Iran at Pahlavi University in Shiraz, and for the second he served on the faculty at the University of Tehran. Deale served on the American Library Association council and as president of the Wisconsin Library Association. Deale strove towards peace and civil and human rights in many aspects of his work, including in his work with the Beloit Peace Council, as a member of the Beloit Chapter of the NAACP, as a charter member of the Leon Peterson Scholarship Committee, and many more.

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

Accruals: 7/1/1991, 6/1/1994

Other Note: 2 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/9701024a.pdf

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