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Newberry Library (3007)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kt7hww (Holding Repository)

The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow...

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Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) (345)

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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library) (2033)

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Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) (360)

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Cartes Marines Manuscript Map Collection (Newberry Library) (116)

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Ann Barzel Collection (Newberry Library) (48)

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Midwest Dance Collection (Newberry Library) (48)

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Newberry Library. Business Office. (23)

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General file maintained in the Business Office since 1946 when the position of Comptroller (later Controller) was created. Records were created under the administrations of Robert A. Brannon (1946-1967) and Lawrence C. Hodapp (1967-1985). Until 1967, when the Librarian assumed that function, the Comptroller/Controller was also Secretary to the Board of Trustees. Starting in 1970, to fund its new research and education programs, speci...

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Newberry Library. Reader Services Dept. (27)

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In 1916 the Public Services (Reference) Division was created consisting of the Main Reading Room, Department of History and Genealogy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, and Exhibition Room. Between 1916 and 1961 five librarians administered the Division: Gerald M. W. Teyen (1916-1919), William S. Merrill (1919-1928), Edwin E. Willoughby (1929-1930), John T. Windle (1931-1948), and Ben C. Bowman (1949-1962). In 1962 the Division of Public Services was disbanded and the head o...

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Newberry Library. Technical Services Dept. (25)

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Following a two-year experiment (1931-1933) with a Technical Department head, a single technical services administrator, responsible for cataloguing, classification, and ordering, was not reappointed until 1959 when Mabel Erler served for three years as head of the Technical Processes Department. In 1965, a unified department was formed again under Bernard Wilson (1965-1967), and continued under Technical Services librarians David Stam (1967-1971), Richard Seidel (1971-1989), and Margaret Bre...

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