Finding Aid for Appointment of Librarian of Congress Committee Correspondence and Clippings, 1937-1939 | The American Library Association Archives

Title: Appointment of Librarian of Congress Committee Correspondence and Clippings, 1937-1939

ID: 93/13/5

Primary Creator: Ad Hoc Committees

Extent: 0.3 Cubic Feet

Arrangement: Arranged by media type (correspondence & clippings) and chronologically by date thereunder

Date Acquired: 01/17/1974

Subjects: Bowerman, George F., Compton, Charles H., Craver, Harrison W., Ferguson, Milton J., Librarian of Congress, Lydenberg, Harry M., Macleish, Archibald, Milam, Carl H., Munn, Ralph, Spaulding, forrest B., Vitz, Carl

Languages: English

Correspondence (November 15, 1937 to November 8, 1939) and clippings (1938-39) of the Committee on Appointment of Librarian of Congress, to suggest persons for appointment as Librarian of Congress, contains chronologies and reports, includes ALA actions to secure the appointment of a librarian, contacts with Congress, the June 6, 1939 nomination of Archibald MacLeish by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, ALA protests of MacLeish's lack of library training and experience in library administration, political attacks on MacLeish and the propriety of the ALA position, and correspondence with George F. Bowerman, Charles H. Compton, Harrison W. Craver, Milton J. Ferguson, Harry M. Lydenberg, Carl H. Milam, Ralph Munn, Forrest B. Spaulding, and Carl Vitz.

Repository: The American Library Association Archives

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/alasfa/9313005a.pdf

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