Ernestine Rose papers, 1945-1954
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Call No.:
- MS#1086
- Bib ID:
- 4079279 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Rose, Ernestine, 1880-1961
- Repository:
- Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Physical Description:
- 0.83 linear feet (2 document boxes)
- Language(s):
- English .
- Access:
- You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
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This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Description
Summary
Correspondence, course outlines, reading lists, programs, minutes, and survey questionnaires on hospital libraries. These papers contain Ernestine Rose's correspondence and course related materials for hospital librarianship which she taught at Columbia University, 1945-1947; her correspondence and teaching materials for the Columbia Conference on Hospital Library Service and Training (November 30, 1945); her correspondence, minutes, and program for the Columbia Institute on Library Service in Hospitals (April 16, 1946); and questionnaires and data summary sheets for a survey of New England and Mid-Atlantic hospital and patients' libraries she conducted for the Library School in April 1947, for the purpose of developing a curriculum to train librarians for medical and patients' libraries. It also includes a copy of Ernestine Rose's book, The Public Library in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954).
Arrangement
Arranged.
Using the Collection
Restrictions on Access
You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.
This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.
This collection has no restrictions.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Ernestine Rose papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--School of Library Service. Method of acquisition--Transfer; Date of acquisition--1981. Accession number--M-81.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 08/--/89.
Revision Description
2024-05-09 Finding aid published (JR)
Biographical Note
Librarian. Ernestine Rose was the head librarian of the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library, located in the Harlem, from 1920-1942. In her retirement, she still taught course in hospital librarianship at the Columbia University School of Library Service.
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