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The unpublished biography of Glenn. In addition to the original 404 page typescript "John Mark Glenn -- and First Steps Toward Better Living Conditions" by Shelby Millard Harrison, a Sage Foundation staff member, there are photographs of Glenn, printed matters, and medals awarded to him and Mary Willcox (Brown) Glenn.

Correspondence, documents, memoranda, reports, and clippings of book reviews. The correspondence is chiefly with public, university, and special libraries, and with foundations and other organizations. There is correspondence with several leading American librarians, such as Carleton Joeckel, Joseph Wheeler, and Charles C. Williamson. About one half of the collection contains the field reports, interview reports, questionnaires, vocational interest blanks, and related materials used for one Inquiry study by Oliver Garceau"Library Government and Politics", which was published by the Columbia University Press in 1949 as THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS. The manuscript of a report for the Russell Sage Foundation"The Nature of Public Communication", 1955, was added.