Estelle Brodman papers, 1950-1987

Summary Information

Abstract

This collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, notes, documents, reports, publications and other printed matter relating to Estelle Brodman, librarian and professor of Medical History.

Description

Summary

Correspondence, manuscripts, manuscript notes, reports, conference papers, and related printed materials dealing with her activities as a consultant on documentation for population and family planning libraries and information centers, 1967-1969, her membership on the President's National Advisory Commission on Libraries, 1968-1969, and printed material on Japanese libraries collected in 1962 when she was a visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo. Dr Brodman was Expert Consultant for Documentation for the Central Family Planning Council in New Dehli in 1967-1968 and Consultant for Documentation at the World Health Organization's Regional Office for South East Asia in New Dehli, in 1970. These "India Files" contain correspondence with Indian officials, UN officials, and long letters with the Washington University Medical Library staff. Also there are reports and related printed material on family planning in India, including material from the All-India Conference on Documentation in Family Planning, 30-31 July 1970. In 1976-1977, Brodman was consultant for the UN Fund for Population Activitiies (UNFPA). Her files contain correspondence with UNFPA officials, UNFPA briefings, reports, working papers, and her notes. Also included are working papers, notes, and related family planning literature from the Association for Population/Family Planning Libraries and Information Centers Development Institute in Bangkok, September 1973.

The National Advisory Commission on Libraries files consist of correspondence, minutes, other working paperes, drafts of its report, and printed material. The Japanese Libraries files are solely printed materials on Japanese libraries, especially academic libraries, and include library journals, library catalogs, and other library publications. Some of these have contributions by Brodman. Also included are manuscripts and related materials on her teaching, research, and publication in the fields of medical libraries, medical librarianship, and medical bibliography, her medical library consultantships in the 1970s and her files as a member of the Missouri Governor's Library Conference, 1978.

1985 ADDITION: Corresponmdence and subject files, 1979-1984, dealing with Brodman's activities since her retirement as a teacher, library consultant, writer, and resident of the Meadow Lake Retirement Village.

1989 ADDITION: Correspondence, subject files, documents, photographs, and videocassettes, 1970-1987, reflecting Brodman's most recent activities in library science and at Meadow Lake Retirement Village (Hightstown, NJ).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged in one series.

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Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

PReproductions may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the Curator of Manuscripts/University Archivist, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML). The RBML approves permission to publish that which it physically owns; the responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Estelle Brodman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Accruals

Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Estelle Brodman, 1980, 1981, 1984 & 1989.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Brodman, Estelle. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1980. Accession number--M-1980.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Processed BRC 04/--/1985.

Revision Description

2012-03-20 Xml document instance created by Alison Rhonemus.

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

Biographical / Historical

Librarian and Professor of Medical History at Washington University in St. Louis MO.

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