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  • ARLIS/NA Professional Development Committee File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from ARLIS/NA Professional Development Committee File include Core Competencies for Art Information Professionals (2006, 2017), Fine Arts and Visual Resources Librarianship: A Directory of Library Science Degree Programs in North America (2008), and PDC Bulletin (2016- ). Also included are administrative materials (meeting agendas/minutes, email templates, workshop slides) from the Mentoring Subcommittee (2020-24).
  • ARLIS/NA Research and Information Services Section File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from the Art Libraries of North America (ARLIS/NA) Research and Information Services Section File contain publications concerning competencies of art librarians, particularly in the specialty areas of graphic design, interior design, photography, urban and regional planning, and landscape archictecture.
  • ARLIS/NA Reviews (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records of ARLIS/NA Reviews contain digital copies of short reviews (2006- ), which are written by "art information professionals" and discuss "the latest in art publishing."
  • ARLIS/NA Salary Surveys (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records of ARLIS/NA Salary Surveys contain ARLIS/NA 2004 Art/Architecture Librarians and Visual Resource Professionals Compensation Survey (2005) pertaining to salary and raise experiences of art librarians in relation to institutional environments, job specifications, educational attainment, and length of experience; demographic data on regional, racial/ethnic, and gender differences are also included.
  • ARLIS/NA Southeast Chapter File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from the Southeast Chapter File of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) contains chapter publications, including newsletter Artifacts (2000-15), chapter bylaws, history, and summary of records.
  • ARLIS/NA Southern California Chapter File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from Southern California Chapter File of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) contains chapter publications, including annual report (2004) detailing chapter's accomplishments for the year and newsletter Canvas (2010-2014, 2016) providing updated information on chapter members, activities, and events.
  • ARLIS/NA Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates and born digital records from the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources File include photographs of participants and background materials from past institutes. Born digital records from the Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources File also include JPEG photographs of participants from past institutes.
  • ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from the ARLIS/NA Texas-Mexico Chapter File contain chapter newsletter The Medium, historical lists of Medium editors and chapter officers, Lois Swan Jones Award material, listserv messages, reports, and presentations pertaining to the Texas-Mexico Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA).
  • ARLIS/NA Twin Cities Chapter File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records of the Twin Cities Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) contain chapter's annual reports.
  • ARLIS/NA Upstate New York Chapter File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born digital records from the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) Upstate New York Chapter File contain annual report (2004) and history (ca. 2014) pertaining to the activities and administration of ARLIS/NA's chapter for the area including Western New York and later all of Upstate New York.
  • Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Subject File (Born Digital Records)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born-digital annual reports produced by the president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services.
  • Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors Correspondence and Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the Correspondence and Files of the Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and ACRL Presidents.
  • Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors Minutes and Proceedings (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Minutes and proceedings of the Association of College and Research Libraries Board of Directors Midwinter and Annual Meetings.
  • Association of College and Research Libraries Committee Files, 1961-2012 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the ACRL Committee Files, including files on the Task Force on Acadmic Libraries and Higher Education (1983-85), Council of Liaisons (1984-2001, 2010-2011), Liaisons Reports (1989-2001), and Professional Association Liaison.
  • Association of College and Research Libraries Section Correspondence, 1975-1976 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of Association of College and Research Libraries Section Correspondence, including files from the Slavic and Eastern Europen Sections (SEES) from 1975-1976.
  • Association of Specialized Government and Cooperative Library Agencies Subject File (Born Digital & Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Subject files of Executive Directors of the Association of Specialized Government and Cooperative Library Agencies, contains correspondence with ASL Presidents (1963-72), minutes, bylaws, budgets, reports, conference materials, membership lists, newsletters, election files and organization, includes materials and correspondence for projects on Decade of the Disabled Award and International Year of Disabled Persons, activities of the Automation, Awards, Conference Program, Legislation, Membership Promotion, Nominating, Organization and Bylaws, Planning, Publications, Research, Standards Review, and Survey Standards committees, and ASCLA representatives to non-ALA associations, materials on library service to prisoners, the elderly and the disabled; and files relating to the Multitype Library Cooperation Section/ Continuing Education (MLCS/CE) Networks are People - Two Approaches workshop, ASCLA merger, committees and annual meetings (1979-98), services to Blind and Physically Handicapped committees and Francis Joseph Campbell Award (1979-95), Services to the Deaf, bylaws, minutes, and program - Help: Libraries and the Hard of Hearing (1980- 82), activities and correspondence of Independent Librarians Exchange Round Table (ILERT), Library Service to Special Populations Section (LSSPS), Interlibrary Cooperation and Networking (ICAN) Section (formerly MULTI-LINCS), and State Library Agency Section (SLAS); "Roads to Learning: The Public Libraries' Disabilities Initiative" Project Files; and publications of the association.
  • Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Projects File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Australian, Canadian and New Zealand Projects File including material on Australia (1941-49), Tasmania (1944-49), Fiji Islands (1944), New Zealand (1942-47) and Canada (1935-49) libraries, librarians and library schools; distribution of periodicals and international visitors.
  • Barbara McCrimmon Autograph Collection (Digital Surrogate)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Barbara McCrimmon Autograph Collection, includes autograph letters written by librarians to W. So. Braithwaite and B. J. Brimmer Co. letters originated from, or were sent to, the Haverhill (Mass.) public library and the Library of Congress acknowledging receipt of donations.
  • Beatrice S. Russell's Autograph Collection (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the autograph collection of notable persons, consisting of letters to the editor of the Bulletin, Beatrice Sawyer Russell; sentiments on the role of the library made for the 50th anniversary of ALA; and routine letters of acceptance and regret from James Angell, Newton D. Baker, Ray Stannard Baker, William Beebe, Edward W. Bok, Louis Bromfield, James B. Cabell, Andrew Carnegie, Louise W. Carnegie, Janet A. Fairbank, Edna Ferber, John H. Finley, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Ellen Glasgow, Harold L. Ickes, Henry Horner, Helen Keller, Herbert H. Lehman, Walter Lippmann, Hugh Lofting, Thomas Mann, Marie, Queen of Romania, Christopher Morley, William F. Poole, Azariah S. Root, Julius Rosenwald, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vincent Starrett, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Susannah Tarkington, Daniel B. Updike, and William A. White.
  • Board of Education for Librarianship Minutes
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of Minutes of open, closed, scheduled and informal meetings of the Board of Education for Librarianship and its predecessor, the Temporary Library Training Board (1924), including stenographer's transcripts of discussions concerning organization, staff, budgets, goals, procedures and functions of the board; meeting attendance; official business; nominations, voting and resolutions; committee appointments; publicity; agendas and reports; and relating to minimum standards for library schools, library school curricula, issues and publications in the field of education for librarianship, reports on library schools seeking accreditation and accreditation visits, grants and fellowships and scholarships for librarianship.
  • Burma Projects Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digitized materials from the Association of College and Research Libraries' Burma Projects File including correspondence, memoranda, addresses, financial statements, reports, receipts, and summaries pertaining to the establishment (under ALA supervision, with Ford Foundation sponsorship) of a Social Science Library at the University of Rangoon and a University Library at the University of Mandalay, Burma. The Rangoon project was supervised (on location) by Paul Bixler (1958-60) and Joseph H. Reason (1961-62); the Mandalay project was supervised by Jay Daily (1952-62). Other correspondents include Richard B. Harwell, David H. Clift, Robert B. Downs, Raynard Swank, Mark M. Gormley, J.A. Quinn, and Helen Hlaing Hlaing Cho, U Maung Kyaw, U Kaung Nyunt, Daw Khin Khin Ohn, U Maung Maung, Myint Myint Khyn, U Myo Lwin, and U Ohn Pe who studied at American library schools.
  • Carl H. Milam Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the papers of Carl H. Milam, including manuscripts of Milam's planned book on library careers.
  • Carl H. Milam's American Library in Paris Correspondence (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Correspondence files of ALA Executive Secretary Carl H. Milam concerning the American Library in Paris. The correspondence covers the period from two years after ALP's incorporation in 1920 through World War II and concerns plans, goals, projects and activities of ALP, financial status and budgets, selection and evaluation of ALP staff and trustees, the monthly literary review Ex Libris (inaugurated in 1923), the Reference Service on International Affairs, the Paris Library School and the Service to Soliders during World War II. Principal correspondents are ALP directors W. Dawson Johnston (1922-25), Burton Stevenson (1926-30), Robert Davis (1931- 34), Helen Latrap (1935) and Dorothy M. Reeder (1936-41); chairmen of the American Committee for the ALP Henry N. MacCracken (1923-24) and Earle B. Babcock (1924); president of the trustees Edward A. Sumner (1939-45) and other members of the Board of Trustees.
  • Caroline Webster Papers, 1917-1921 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the Papers of Caroline Webster as assistant to the director of the Library War Service head of the Hospital Library Service, and member of the Committee on an Enlarged Program for American Library Service containing correspondence with the American Red Cross (1918-1921); with Gertrude Rider of the committee on Work with the Blind, the New York Association for the Blind, and the Perkins Institute for the Blind (1919-1920); with dispatch offices (1919- 1920); concerning the establishment of public libraries in the Virgin Islands (1917, 1919-1920); with the Hospital Library Service personnel (1919-1921); postwar library service correspondence with national organizations (1919-1921); postwar library service records (1919-20).
  • Cataloging and Metadata Management Section Committee Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of files of Cataloging and Metadata Management Section committees and subcommittees, contains correspondence, reports and related material on projects and activities, committees include the Board on Personnel Administration and committees on Cataloging and Classification, Descriptive Cataloging, Dewey Decimal Classification, Committee on Cooperation with Lake Placid Foundation (1929-1948), Editorial Policy, Filing Rules, Policy and Research (1982-1992), Regional Groups, Relations with ALA and the Journal of Cataloging and Classification, Subject Analysis and Organization of Library Materials (1970-98), the Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access (CC:DA) (1979-94), and the Joint Steering Committee on AACR2 (1988-94), includes Gordon & Breach vs. Barschall litigation (1989-90).
  • Charles B. Norton and S. Hastings Grant Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the Papers of Charles B. Norton (1825-91), editor of Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, and S. Hastings Grant (1828- 1910), librarian of the Mercantile Library Association of New York, contains correspondence and statistical forms concerning periodical subscriptions, gifts of the Literary Register, library statistics and information, and arrangements for and proceedings of the Librarians' Convention of September 1853, includes correspondence with Charles C. Jewett (Smithsonian), Daniel C. Gilman (Yale), Reuben A. Guild (Brown), William S. Rhees (Smithsonian), James Green (Baltimore Mercantile Library Association), John W. Dean (Boston), Edward Capen (Boston Public Library ), Samuel Haven (American Antiquarian Association), John Tappan (University of Michigan Library), William P. Curtis (Mercantile Library Association, St. Louis), Philip Forbes and W.S. Butler (New York Society Library), R. H. Stephenson (Cincinnati Mercantile Library Association), Lloyd P. Smith (Library Company of Philadelphia), and E.C. Arnold (Young Men's Association, Milwaukee).
  • Charles F. D. Belden Papers
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies of the papers of Charles F. D. Belden, ALA president (1925-36), contains personal and official correspondence, clippings, reports, memorabilia, photographs, promotional materials, lists, outlines, conference papers, leaflets, posters, book, statistics and exhibit materials, includes personal affairs (1926-27), the ALA 50th anniversary conference (1925-26), the Swampscott Conference (1921), the Enlarged Program (1919-20), Library War Service (1917-19), the Magnolia Conference (1902), the ALA Publishing Board (1904-14), copyright (1906), the ALA correspondence of Horace G. Wadlin (librarian, Boston Public Library) (1903-16), and Leipzig Exhibit (1914).
  • Charles R. Green Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digitized copies of the Charles R. Green Papers, relating to Green's service as Assistant Librarian at the Camp Library, Camp Johnston, Florida, contains photographs of the library and its interior floor plans, a map of the camp showing proposed sites for the library with comments written on the map describing the functions of the buildings and the areas, official camp orders, camp handbook, and correspondence with the ALA Library War Service Headquarters.
  • Chinese American Librarians Association Subject Files (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copies from the Chinese-American Librarians Association Subject File, including the 1985-88 conference programs, and 1982-2000 newsletters.
  • Conference Audio Recordings
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
  • Conference Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of typescripts of papers read at the ALA annual meetings, including committee reports, panel discussions, and award acceptance speeches about archives, library education, uses of microfilm in reference work, the WPA, the Historical Records Survey, union, catalogs, library extension, bibliotherapy, divided catalogs, rural libraries, library buildings, theater libraries, hospital and prison libraries, library service to the blind, music libraries, photographic charging systems and libraries and the war.
  • Conference Scrapbook
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copy of a ALA Conference Scrapbook (1894-1902) containing programs, announcements, postcards, and circular letters regarding ALA Annual Conferences programming, tourist information, travel, and related events. Also includes a letter to Katharine Sharp and a letter of a special meeting on February 6, 1897, regarding the re-incorporation of ALA.
  • David H. Clift Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the David H. Clift Papers, including copies of speeches on the American Heritage Project, Heritage of ALA in Time of Crisis (1951) and American Heritage and Librarians Part (1952).
  • Eldon Ray James Oral History (Born Digital)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Oral History of Eldon Ray James (September 2023), retired librarian, ALA member, and formerly incarcerated person, recorded on September 12, 19, and 23, 2023, containing video and audio recordings, and transcripts. Recordings include information on James' childhood, military service, universities attended, employment, incarceration, becoming a librarian, work with Dr. Loriene Roy and ALA, the "Prisoners Right to Read," the Freedom to Read Honor Roll, reflections on his life, the library profession, and library services to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. Interview conducted by Deb Sica, Alameda County Library, questions developed by Deb Sica and Erin Berman, Alameda County Library.
  • Electronic Records of the Office for Intellectual Freedom, 1990-2008
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Born-digital records from the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) contain agendas, correspondence, conferences papers (annual and midwinter), budgets, member rosters, official forms, meeting minutes, memos, publications, speeches, manuals, reports, statements, photographs, posters, brochures, event programs, and newspaper reprints concerning the activities of the Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC), The Intellectual Freedom Round Table (IFRT), the Committee on Professional Ethics, and the Freedom to Read Foundation. Topical areas include of OIF's campaign Banned Books Week, Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), ALA code of ethics and users' rights, public library internet use policy, internet filtering, intellectual property and privacy, internet access management in U.S. public libraries, and membership to the Committee on Professional Ethics.
  • Endowment Fund Account Ledger
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital copy of the endowment fund account ledger of Charles C. Soule, Treasurer of the Trustees of the Endowment Fund of the ALA, contains a ledger book, includes dates of transactions, sources and objects of receipts and disbursements, and interest acquired on balance in the endowment fund, and records of major transactions affecting the endowment fund (pp. 100-109).
  • Executive Director Subject File (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates from the Executive Director's Subject File, including files on the Carnegie Corporation grants to the Canadian Library Council (1926-1946), Canadian library survey (1928-38), and a copy of the summary report of the National Advisory Commission on Libraries from December 1967.
  • Financial Minutes and Reports, 1987-1990 (Born Digital)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of financial and accounting reports, correspondence, and Executive Board documents from 1987-1990.
  • Franklin H. Price Papers, 1918-1919 (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Papers of Franklin H. Price, agent of the ALA Library War Service Philadelphia Dispatch Office, containing correspondence from Carl Milam, Assistant to the Director of the ALA Library War Service. Correspondence concerns book requests and shipments, reports and instructions and funds and subscriptions. Series also includes a letter from Milam to Mr. Ashurst, Price's supervisor at the Philadelphia Free Library, praising Price's work for the Library War Service.
  • George B. Utley Papers (Digital Surrogates)
    American Library Association Archives  ·   Digital Special Collections
    Description
    Digital surrogates of the George B. Utley Papers, including files on state library associations.