Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Descriptive Inventory of Re... Finding Aid Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Descriptive Inventory of Re... Finding Aid Title: Descriptive Inventory of Resources, 1965-1967
ID: 35/3/18
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services
Extent: 2.6 cubic feet
Arrangement: By subject and numerical by University office classification number
Subjects: Afghanistan - Education, Disadvantaged, Human Ecology, Mental Health, Research, Social Science
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Administrative and project work files for a descriptive inventory of resources and projects for the ecology of mental health and work with the disadvantaged at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, including correspondence, reports, notes, drafts, publications, indexes and related material accumulated by the project staff (Jan. 15 - Aug. 15, 1967). Funded by a grant from the Illinois Department of Mental Health to the Center for Human Ecology, the project report was compiled in July and published in September, 1967.
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.
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503018.pdf
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