Description:
Subject file of Executive Directors, contains correspondence, minutes, annual reports, publications, memoranda, articles, newspaper clippings, press releases and proposals, includes annual conferences (1951-63), midwinter conferences (1946- 60), nominations and elections (1951-58), presidents (1945-50, 1964-84), Operation Library Project (1956-60), Public Libraries (1945-58, 1977-79), the PLD Reporter (1954-61, 1975-79), goals and standards (1956-58, 1965-79), committee files (1947-84), history (1943-59), special projects, work with allied organizations (1944-57) and section activities including the Adult Education Section (1946-56), Alternative Education Programs Section (1979-84), Armed Forces Librarians Section (1944-84), County and Regional Libraries Section (1927-56), Library Extension Section (1944-57), Reference Section (1944-58), Metropolitan Library Section (1977-84), Public Library Systems Section (1980-84), and Small and Medium-Sized Libraries Section (1977-84). Committee files (1952-82) include correspondence relating to Audiovisual Committee (1969-78), Book of the Month (Fisher) Award Committee (1959-66), Foreign Book Selection Committee (1953-68), Interlibrary Cooperation Committee (1961-79), the Metropolitan Areas Libraries Committee (1963-69), Goals, Guidelines and Standards Committee (1961-79) and the Strategies for Public Library Change Committee (1971-78). Note: the series also includes material concerning evaluation of services, surveys and statistics of public libraries, the Measurement of Effectiveness of Public Library Service project (1967-75, 1980), White House Conferences on Aging, Children and Youth, and Families, education of public librarians, legislation affecting public libraries, and awards.
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