Finding Aid for Law Library Subject File, 1940-1993 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: Law Library Subject File, 1940-1993

ID: 35/3/39

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

Extent: 2.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: Alphabetical

Subjects: Law Libraries

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Law Library Subject File including correspondence, reports and published material relating to annual reports, law organizations, law libraries, indexes, publishers, reference and administrative matters, international business transactions, European Communities, and allocations (1993).

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.

Law Libraries

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 1/5/78; 9/10/2007

Processing Information: On 9/10/2007 8.00 cu. ft. of material was recieved from the Collge of Law. 1.00 ft. was determined to belong to this series and added to it.�  The finding aid was appropriately modified.

Other Note: 3 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503039.pdf

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