Holdings Graduate School of Library ... Director's Office Donald W. Krummel Papers Finding Aid Holdings Graduate School of Library ... Director's Office Donald W. Krummel Papers Finding Aid Title: Donald W. Krummel Papers, 1953-2006
ID: 18/1/34
Primary Creator: Krummel, Donald W. (1929-)
Extent: 9.8 cubic feet
Arrangement:
First accession:
By subject matter, and chronologically thereunder
Second accession:
Series 1: Correspondence, 1953-2006
This series contains Donald W. Krummel's correspondence as well as letters of recommendation he wrote on behalf of students and scholars. This series is organized alphabetically.
Date Acquired: 11/02/2000. More info below under Accruals.
Subjects: Allerton Park, Correspondence, Course Materials, Faculty Papers, Graduate College, Library Friends, Music Library, Oral History, Rare Books, Tenure
Formats/Genres: Sound Recordings
The papers of Donald W. Krummel, Professor of Library and Information Science (first three accessions) include correspondence, syllabi and course materials, exams, comments on student work, manuscripts, papers and speeches, and audio recordings concerning GSLIS and University of Illinois campus committees such as Gutenberg Galaxy, Library Friends, and promotion and tenure; professional organizations such as the International Association of Music Libraries; publications such as the Journal of Academic Librarianship and A Librarian's Collacon; Krummel's Masters' Thesis from the University of Michigan, "An Introduction to the History of Music Libraries" (1953); cassette recordings of GSLIS courses and of twelve oral history interviews (with transcripts) conducted by Linnea Martin (1998); Robert B. Downs Publication Fund; Dean searches and evaluation; and notes and manuscripts for major unpublished projects, including a Bibliographical Conspectus of Early Music for University Microfilms (1964-1970), the Smithsonian American Music Project (1985-1989), and Printed Music, 1501-1700: A Bibliographical Conspectus (1969).
A fourth accession was transfered in 2018 and processed in 2019: materials only contain correspondence, organized into one series. Series 1: Correspondence, 1953-2006.
Donald W. Krummel was born July 12, 1929 in Sioux City, Iowa. He received his B.Mus. (1951), M.Mus. (1953), M.A.L.S. (Masters in Liberal Studies, 1954), and Ph.D. (1958) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He worked as a Teaching Fellow (1952-1954) and Instructor in Music Literature (1954-1956) while at the University of Michigan. Krummel worked at the Library of Congress from 1956-1961 as the Reference Librarian for the Music Division. From 1962-1969 he worked at the Newberry Library in Chicago, first as the Head of the Reference Department (1962-1964) and later as an Associate Librarian from 1964-1969. Professor Krummel taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1970-1997) in the School of Information Sciences. He has also served as a faculty member at the Rare Book School at Columbia University, which then moved to the University of Virginia (1990-2008). As of 1997, Krummel is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois.
Professor Krummel has been the recipient of countless fellowships and grants, including: the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Scholar in Residence (1969); the Henry E. Huntington Library Grant-in-Aid (1965); the Newbery Library Traveling Research Fellow (1969-1970); the University College (London) Honorary Research Fellow (1974-1975); the Guggenheim Fellow (1976-1977); the University of Illinois University Scholar (1991); and the Graduate School of Library and Information Scholar (1993).
Professor Krummel has also received numerous awards and honors including: the Music Library Association, Duckles Award (1983); the American Library Association, G.K. Hall Award (1987); the Beta Phi Mu Award, (1999); the Sonneck Society (Society of American Music), Lowens Award (1989) and Lifetime Achievement Award (2012); the American Printing History Association Laureate Award (2004); the Bibliographical Society of America Honorary Member (2017); project awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1976, 1979, 1983), supplemented by support from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund (1983); and he was included on the University of Illinois, "Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Outstanding by their Students" several times.
Professor Krummel's CV can be accessed via the following link:
Allerton Park
Correspondence
Course Materials
Faculty Papers
Graduate College
Library Friends
Music Library
Oral History
Rare Books
Tenure
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Accruals: 11/13/2002, 10/31/2005, 07/23/2018
Other Note: 11 pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/0180134.pdf
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