Brief Description: Correspondence files of ALA Executive Secretary Carl H. Milam concerning the American Library in Paris. The correspondence covers the period from two years after ALP's incorporation in 1920 through World War II and concerns plans, goals, projects and activities of ALP, financial status and budgets, selection and evaluation of ALP staff and trustees, the monthly literary review Ex Libris (inaugurated in 1923), the Reference Service on International Affairs, the Paris Library School and the Service to Soliders during World War II. Principal correspondents are ALP directors W. Dawson Johnston (1922-25), Burton Stevenson (1926-30), Robert Davis (1931- 34), Helen Latrap (1935) and Dorothy M. Reeder (1936-41); chairmen of the American Committee for the ALP Henry N. MacCracken (1923-24) and Earle B. Babcock (1924); president of the trustees Edward A. Sumner (1939-45) and other members of the Board of Trustees.
Held at:
The American Library Association Archives
19 Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61802
Phone: 217 333 0798
Fax: 217 244 2868
Email: ala-archives [at] library.illinois.edu
Record Series Number: 2/4/70
Created by: Executive Director
Volume: 1.6 Cubic Feet
Acquired:
4/26/74
Arrangement: Chronological
Subject Index
American Library in Paris
Babcock, Earle B.
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Davis, Robert
Executive Director, ALA
France-Libraries
International Librarianship
International Library Education
Jones, Gardner M.
Latrap, Helen
Maccracken, Henry N.
Milam, Carl H.
Reference Services
Seeger, Charles L.
Stevens, Burton
Sumner, Edward A.
World War II
Languages of Materials
English [eng]
French [fre]
German [ger]