Columbia University Libraries Library Survey records, 1944-1957

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Columbia University Libraries Library Survey records, 1956-1957


Questionnaires, 1956



Box 1 Folder 1 Alumni / Graduates, 1956


Box 1 Folder 2 Deans and Faculty Members, 1956


Box 1 Folder 3 Library Staff, 1956


Responses, 1956



Box 2 Graduate students, by school, concentration and/or degree, 1956

Grad comments by question and questionnaires organized by the class they were distributed in (Philosophy 243, Tudor Drama Seminar, Industrial Engineering 221, Economics Rb 118, etc.)



Box 3 Graduate students, by school, concentration and/or degree, 1956

Questionnaires organized by the class they were distributed in (Library Science, journalism, law, German 301, Government 387; botany, etc.



Box 4 Faculty, Anthropology to Civil Engineering, 1956

Includes other engineering majors.



Box 5 Faculty, Economics to Geology, 1956



Box 6 Faculty, German to Law, 1956



Box 7 Faculty, Library Service to Public Law and Government, 1956



Box 8 Faculty, Slavic Languages to Zoology; Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons, Anatomy to Neurology, 1956



Box 9 Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons, Nursing to Pathology, 1956



Box 10 Faculty of Physicians & Surgeons, Pediatrics to Urology, 1956



Box 11 Faculty, miscellaneous; Undergraduates, General Studies and Columbia College, 1956

Faculty responses include those received too late to tabulate and others.



Box 12 Undergraduates, General Studies and Columbia College; Library Department Heads, 1956



Box 16 Library Department Heads, 1956



Box 13 Undergraduate and Graduate students miscellaneous, 1956

Student responses include those received too late to tabulate and others.


Report, 1957



Box 14 Drafts and proofs, 1957



Box 15 Preliminary Report, 1957



Box 18 Preliminary Report, Replaced Pages, Changes Used, Changes Not Used, 1957


Office Files, 1944-1957



Box 16 Survey drafts, notes, correspondence and earlier reports (A Report on Certain Problems of the Library and School of Library Services, 1944, and A List of Proposals for Library Development, 1950), 1944-1957



Box 17 "Outside Libraries", Students who helped; Library Staff who tabulated, 1956-1957



Box 18 Proposals, by department and by unit, 1950