World War II Demobilization and Postwar Planning File, 1943-1946 | The American Library Association Archives

Description: Correspondence of Carl H. Milam, Executive Secretary of ALA, on demobilization and readjustment in libraries after World War II, comments on the Carl Vitz Memorandum concerning demobilization, minutes of meetings on demobilization and the library, and a manifesto on demobilization resulting from the Chicago regional institute on demobilization and readjustment (1943-46); correspondence and notes for a handbook for ex-servicemen and the first and second drafts and the supplement of the Vitz Memorandum (1943-44), correspondence to Ralph Ulvering and Everett Fontaine (1945-46); correspondence concerning candidates for Top-Notch Army Librarian (1945); notes of Milam for a report in response to Ralph Ellsworth's article for college and research libraries, memoranda on A.C.R.L., list of ALA. budget committees (1940- 46), outlines of meetings of the Committee on Information and Advisory Services (1946); correspondence concerning A.C.R.L. and the Department of Information and Advisory Services (1945-46); and report from meeting of Committee on Information and Advisory Services (February 23-24,1946). The series includes a leaflet What Do You Want to Know? Services for Demobilized Men and Women at the Public Library and related correspondence (1945), Postwar Library Personnel(1944) and ALA. Bulletin articles on demobilization and readjustment (1943-45).