Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Undergraduate Library Subje... Finding Aid Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Undergraduate Library Subje... Finding Aid Title: Undergraduate Library Subject File, 1936-1995
ID: 35/3/38
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services
Extent: 3.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: Alphabetical by subject
Subjects: Illini Union Browsing Room, Library Automation, Residence Hall Libraries, Undergraduate Library
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Subject file of the Undergraduate Library (established in 1949) includes correspondence, reports, building plans and minutes of meetings. This series includes annual reports for the Undergraduate Library (1949-64, 1972-74); for the Illini Union Browsing Room (1936-65) and Residence Hall libraries (1965-76); staff manuals for circulation, reserve books, and bookstacks; plans for the Undergraduate Library building including interior floor plans, furnishings, equipment and tree plantings (1966-69); photographs of building opening and dedication; planning documents, reports and manuals for the Undergraduate automated circulation system (1966-75) and LCS (1975-1977); and descriptions of undergraduate libraries at other universities. This series also contains correspondence and reports on the Audio Room; undergraduate education; bibliographies; library instruction; committees, statistics, budget and personnel.
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.
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