Description:
Records of the Library-Anthropology Resource Group (LARG) consisting of correspondence and notes (1970-1998), meeting minutes (1971-1998), financial reports (1989-1993), anthropology bibliographies and biographies, serial publications, publication drafts, reviews, contracts and correspondence, member lists and addresses, and anthropology titles from card catalogs from the Field Museum and Midwest Inter-Library Center. Publications include Anthropological Bibliographies : a Selected Guide, International Dictionary of Anthropologists, and Serial Publications in Anthropolgy. Correspondents include Sol Tax, Francis X. Grollig, Margo Smith, Yvonne Damien, Paul Hockings, Michele Calhoun, Hans Panofsky, Lee Dutton, Thomas Mann, and Chris Winters.
LARG was a cooperative of anthropologists and librarians in the Chicago area to discuss the bibliographic needs in the field of anthropology and explore the development of useful reference publications. Records were previously held by the Field Museum.