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Charles C. Williamson papers, 1900-1965
50 boxesCorrespondence of Williamson covering his college years and his positions at Bryn Mawr College, the New York Public Library, the Carnegie Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. A significant portion of Williamson's Columbia University correspondence and memoranda is addressed to or related to Roger Howson, University Librarian from 1926 to 1940. The manuscripts, chiefly typescripts, are concerned with library science and educational topics. Also, clippings and pamphlet files with some related correspondence and typescripts dealing with education and particularly the use of television as a teaching aid.
Columbia University Libraries Binding Department Records, 1899-1972, bulk 1950-1969
2.5 linear feetColumbia University Libraries Resources List records, 1940-1947
0.83 linear feetThe correspondence and working papers of the "Survey of Resources of the Columbia University Libraries" (unpublished typescript), 1941. This guide to the Libraries' resources was prepared to supply data for Robert B. Downs' Resources of New York City libraries : a survey of facilities for advanced study and research (Chicago, A.L.A., 1942). The resulting typescript was kept at the Reference desk in Butler Library.
Columbia University Libraries Staff Association records, 1948-1950
1.25 linear feetTypescript drafts of the association's constitution, ballots for various elections as well as for the ratification of the constitution, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and minutes of the association meetings and the executive board's meetings.
Columbia University Library Office files, 1890-1998
48.37 linear feetColumbia University School of Library Service Records, 1926-1970
150 linear feetCorrespondence, memoranda, reports, curricular materials, and other records. These files are arranged in the following series: General Correspondence, Documentary History (curricular materials), Dean's Office, School of Library Service Alumni Association Study of Student Characteristics, Student Committees, Reading Abilities of Masters Candidates, American Correspondence School of Librarianship, and SLS Alumni Files (essays and articles by alumni).
Copyright Advisory Office (CAO) records, 2008-2013
2.5 linear feetDictionary Card Catalog of Columbia University Libraries, 1938-1948
11 linear feetThe Card Catalog is a negative 16mm. motion picture film of the Dictionary Card Catalog of Columbia University Libraries ca. 1938-1948. The film was meant to be a record copy of the catalog to be uded for reproducing it if it were ever mutilated or destroyed. Unfortunately, the quality of the film is so poor that it is unusable for reproduction. The films have been retained as a sample of the mid-twentieth century holdings of a large American academic library.
George Lowy Papers, 1969-1982
6 linear feetThis collection consists of the records of George Lowy as the first Director of the Herbert Lehman Library (at the time called the Chief of Social Sciences Division Library) at the School of International and Public Affairs (then the School of International Affairs (SIA)). The files contain administrative information about the library: acquisitions, annual reports, budgets, building matters, personnel, publications, security, etc.
James Gamble Rogers architectural records and photographs, 1905-1980, bulk 1905-1937
5 manuscript boxesLargely architectural drawings, photographs, and furniture designs for Butler Library and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York City. Also, architectural drawings and photographs for other buildings at Columbia, including Bard Hall, Kent Hall, National Hall, South Hall, and Low Library; as well as drawings for buildings elsewhere in the United States and El Salvador.