Brief Description: Papers of Lawrence Auld, member of the Board of Directors, Information Science and Automation Division (1973-76) including papers concerning the Committee on Library Automation (1965-69) containing correspondence with COLA members, constitutions and bylaws, membership lists, Newsletters Nos. 14-44 (1965-69), program agenda, minutes, surveys of operating computer library programs, reports of conferences and meetings in the library automation field, descriptions of library automation systems and correspondence concerning the merger of COLA into a discussion group of ISAD. ISAD material includes correspondence; drafts, revisions and addenda of constitution and bylaws; organizational charts; financial reports; membership study, 1974; Board of Directors' meeting agendas, minutes, proposals, committee reports, membership lists, programs and reports; ALA membership statistics and surveys, dues schedules, Executive Board documents and department budget reports, RTSD Board of Directors agenda and minutes, program committees, RTSD, Catalog Code Revision Committee, Subcommittee on the Rules for Cataloging Machine Readable Data Files includes memoranda, correspondence and final report (1971-76). The series includes memoranda on the editorship of the Journal of Library Automation (1979-80).

Record Series Number: 26/1/20

Created by: Auld, Lawrence W. S.

Volume: 2.0 Cubic Feet

Acquired: 8/4/76; 8/22/80

Arrangement: Chronological

Biographical Note for Auld, Lawrence W. S. :

Lawrence Auld was born on September 19, 1933, in Joplin, Missouri. He received a BA in English from the University of Northern Iowa and an MSLS from Columbia University before completing his DLS from the University of Illinois. Auld worked in several university libraries, including those at the University of Texas at Austin, Hawaii State Library of Hawaii, Oakland University, and Oregon State University before joining the faculty at the University of Illinois. At the latter institution, Auld served in several positions, including as the Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Library Science. He then moved to East Carolina University where he chaired the department of Library and Information Sciences. He retired from East Carolina University in 2003.

Auld wrote or contributed to eight books and more than 40 articles over the course of his career. He passed away on March 2, 2023.

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