Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Mathematics Library Subject... Finding Aid Holdings University Library Departmental Library Services Mathematics Library Subject... Finding Aid Title: Mathematics Library Subject File, 1918-1994
ID: 35/3/13
Primary Creator: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services
Extent: 2.0 cubic feet
Arrangement: By type of material and alphabetical thereunder
Subjects: Library Administration, Library Circulation, Library Exhibits, Library Surveys, Mathematics Library
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Subject file of the Mathematics Library containing correspondence relating to a survey of Mathematics Libraries by Phineas Windsor, including responses from Library of Congress, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Chicago, Harvard, and other University Libraries concerning number of mathematical titles and periodicals (1918); annual reports; policies for circulating and reserving materials; classification guide; descriptions of displays; vertical file procedure manual; reading and withdrawal lists; exchange agreements, acquisitions funds, serials cancellations, user surveys, departmental advisory committee, memos to and from Technical Services (1964-78); correspondence of Howard A. Messman, Mathematics Librarian (1964-72); and committee files of the mathematics librarian Nancy Anderson (1972-1999), including agendas, minutes and memoranda for the Library Faculty Executive Committee (1975-78), Public Service Coordinating Committee (1977-79), Collection Analysis Project (1977-80), Research Publications Committee (1978-79), Physical Sciences and Engineering Council/Division, 1981-1994, and Altgeld Hall Centennial (1997).
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.
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Accruals: 5/2/1974; 7/27/79; 8/21/80; 1/26/81; 1/29/81; 7/1/81; 9/83; 2/00; 10/12/01
Other Note: 2 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3503013.pdf
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