Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Scientific and Technologica... Finding Aid Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Scientific and Technologica... Finding Aid Title: Scientific and Technological Documentation Study, 1966-1968
ID: 35/3/19
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services
Extent: 2.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: By type of material (administrative, TEXT and appendices)
Subjects: Archival Practice, Bibliography, History of Science, History of Technology, Manuscript Collections, Scientific Documentation
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Files for a study of scientific and technological documentation completed by the University Archives under a grant from the Council on Library Resources, including correspondence, financial records, press releases, reports, drafts of "Scientific and Technological Documentation: Archival Evaluation and Processing of University Records Relating to Science and Technology", bibliographies on the history and literature of one general and 29 specific fields of science and technology and lists of scientific and technological manuscripts.
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.
Archival Practice
Bibliography
History of Science
History of Technology
Manuscript Collections
Scientific Documentation
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503019.pdf
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