Newberry Library. Technical Services Dept.
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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 Brenneman (1990- )
Reference sources on specific topics used by or created by Technical Services staff.
Since the Library's founding, the Technical Services Department has undergone numerous restructurings.
The functions of cataloguing, classification, ordering, and book selection have been configured independently and together. In 1892 three departments existed: Order and Accession; Cataloguing; and Classification and Reference. By 1915, with the conversion to a card catalogue, Accessions, Classification, Author Catalogue, and Recataloguing departments had been formed. Starting in 1919, two departments were created: Cataloguing and Classification, and Book Selection and Ordering. This division lasted until 1931, when a unified Technical Department was formed. Between 1937 and 1965, there were further splits and reunions, with book selection moving in and out of the ordering sphere. By 1965, the Department assumed its current shape, including cataloguing and classification, ordering, and serials, and excluding book selection.
Over the years the Newberry Library has redefined the scope of its collections to concentrate on the humanities.
In 1896, 7,814 scientific titles were turned over to the John Crerar Library as a result of the cooperative collecting plan adopted by the Newberry, the Crerar, and the Chicago Public Library. In 1906-1907, the Newberry's 72,679 medical titles were also transferred to the Crerar. During 1928-1929, another 21,293 out-of-scope scientific and semi-scientific volumes were officially removed from the Library through sale, exchange, and return. Further deaccessions took place during the 1930's.
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