Finding Aid for Education Library File, 1930, 1937-76, 1983-2012 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Education Library File, 1930, 1937-76, 1983-2012

ID: 35/3/14

Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services

Extent: 7.5 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject

Subjects: Afghanistan - Education, Anthropology, Curriculum, Education, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Textbooks, United Nations

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Education Library file includes correspondence, donation receipts, exhibit plans, library guides, minutes, photographs, lists and worksheets concerning the history of the Education, Social Science Libraries, acquisitions, publications for the Curriculum Laboratory collections (1953-56), Human Relations areas file, Psychology, Philosophy, and Home Economics book funds (1948-52), attendance and reading room statistics, the Education Library Committee (1956-67), Library Faculty meetings and governance (1972-76), budget requests (1963-75), the Women and Gender resources collection acquisition (2005), the United Nations Collection acquistion (2005), the Wines Collection (1994-2002), and Annual Reports for the period from 1984-2000. This file included correspondence of Librarians Ida Tod, Evelyn Nelson, Ruth Schaefer, Allen Sprow, Ralph Stenstrom, John Walker, Barton Clark, and Nancy O'Brien.

Public services of the Campus Library are units that deal directly with the library user. Their chief functions are service and selection of material. Those responsibilities include circulation, reference, bibliographic aids, and inter-library loans. A major part of public services are the operations of the various departmental or branch libraries, which in 1975 totaled thirty-seven. Most of them are organized according to the departmental structure of the University, though many are combined with related fields of interest. Included with the libraries are those with specialized tasks, such as the undergraduate library, rare book room, archives, newspaper library, and the Illinois historical survey.¹ The branch and departmental libraries have grown and contracted over the years, sometimes combining with or dividing from collections devoted to similar disciplines.² Health sciences, the archives, music, map, and geology libraries are among the branches that perform processing activities, although technical services handles material for most libraries.³ The term public service departments has existed since 1944, and the office of assistant university librarian for public service originated in 1945.⁴ Public service units developed from the reference and loan departments, which were two of the five main divisions of the Campus Library in 1916.⁵

1. Graduate Course Catalog, 1974/76, pp. 9-11; Library Annual Report, 1974-75, pp. 5-6.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25; Board of Trustees Transactions, 37th Report, June 15, 1934, pp. 355-56.

3. Library Annual Report, 1974-75, p. 8-9.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 43rd Report, June 27, 1946, and appendix, June 19, 1944, p. 794.

5. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25.

Afghanistan - Education
Anthropology
Curriculum
Education
Psychology
Social Work
Sociology
Textbooks
United Nations

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 1/14/87, 2013

Other Note: 1 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503014.pdf

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