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<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1821">1821</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1823">1823</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Joseph Estabrook, Professor Latin and Greek, Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1821">1821</date>
<event>Alexandrian and Athenian Societies, student literary societies, established; society libraries soon follow
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1822">1822</date>
<event>Library located in North College, 4th floor room
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1823">1823</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1824">1824</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Zenas Clapp, Tutor and Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1824">1824</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1827">1827</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Samuel M. Worcester, Professor and Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1827">1827</date>
<event>First library catalog published
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1827">1827</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1853">1853</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Library located in Johnson Chapel, 3rd floor
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1827">1827</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1852">1852</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Ebenezer Snell (AC 1822), Professor and Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1831">1831</date>
<event>Substantial increase to the Library because of John Tappan gift of $500
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1836">1836</date>
<event>Athenian Society publishes catalog
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1844">1844</date>
<event>Sears Fund of Literature and Benevolence established
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1850">1850</date>
<event>Library holdings are approximately 6,000 volumes
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1851">1851</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1965">1965</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Memorabilia Room established
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1852">1852</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1863">1863</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Lucius Boltwood (AC 1843) named first full-time Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1853">1853</date>
<event>New building opens, houses library; later named Morgan Hall
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1855">1855</date>
<event>Library holdings are approximately 12,000 volumes; Second library catalog published; second Athenian Society catalog also published</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1863">1863</date>
<event>Julius H. Seelye, Teacher and Librarian (without pay)
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1864">1864</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1878">1878</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>William Montague (AC 1855), Librarian, Registrar, and Professor of French, Italian, and Spanish
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1864">1864</date>
<event>First alphabetical author card catalog
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1867">1867</date>
<event>Merger of Athenian, Alexandrian, and College libraries discussed
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1871">1871</date>
<event>Supplement to library catalog published; open hours change from 3 hours/week to 6 hours/day except closed Sunday</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1874">1874</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1876">1876</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Melvil Dewey (AC 1874) Assistant Librarian, starts subject catalog on cards
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1878">1878</date>
<event>Thomas P. Field, (AC 1834) Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1879">1879</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1883">1883</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Walter Biscoe, (AC 1874) Acting Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1883">1883</date>
<event>Library expands; building named for Henry T. Morgan
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1883">1883</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1911">1911</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>William I. Fletcher, Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1885">1885</date>
<event>Library holdings are approximately 43,000 volumes
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1891">1891</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1905">1905</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>William I. Fletcher runs Summer course in Library Economy
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1908">1908</date>
<event>Robert S. Fletcher (AC 1897, son of W.I. Fletcher) named Assistant Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1911">1911</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1939">1939</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Robert S. Fletcher, Librarian
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1917">1917</date>
<event>Converse Memorial Library opens
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1935">1935</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1939">1939</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Henry deForest Smith, Library Director; Robert S. Fletcher on medical leave
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1938">1938</date>
<event>Addition built on Converse Memorial Library; First rare book room established in Converse addition (</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1939">1939</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1970">1970</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Newton F. McKeon (AC 1926), Library Director
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1951">1951</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1978">1978</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Hampshire Inter-Library Center (HILC) established (initially Amherst, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, later Hampshire College) to provide cooperation among the libraries
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1964">1964</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1965">1965</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Charles T. Laugher, Assistant Library Director
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1965">1965</date>
<event>Robert Frost Library opens; Friends of the Amherst College Library founded; Memorabilia Room moves from the Hitchcock Room in Morgan Hall to the Frost Library and renamed the College Archives</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1965">1965</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1970">1970</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Charles T. Laugher, Associate Library Director
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1968">1968</date>
<event>Merrill Science Library opens; Music Library opens
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1970">1970</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1974">1974</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Richard J. Cody, Librarian of the College
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1970">1970</fromDate>
<toDate standardDate="1975">1975</toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Charles T. Laugher, Library Director
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1971">1971</date>
<event>Audio-Visual Department established in Frost Library
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1974">1974</date>
<event>Library joins OCLC for cataloging purposes (substituted Library of Congress classification system for Dewey Decimal Classification System)</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<dateRange>
<fromDate standardDate="1975">1975</fromDate>
<toDate></toDate>
</dateRange>
<event>Willis Bridegam, Librarian of the College
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1978">1978</date>
<event>College Archives given mandate by Board of Trustees
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1980">1980</date>
<event>House libraries discontinued
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1986">1986</date>
<event>Frost C-level opens (compact shelving installed 1985; Deweys moved to C-level 1986)
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1988">1988</date>
<event>First Five College on-line catalog system (LS/2000) installed (provides access to holdings at the University of Massachusetts and Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, as well as Amherst)
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1994">1994</date>
<event>Second Five College automated library system (III) installed
</event>
</chronItem>
<chronItem>
<date standardDate="1994">1994</date>
<event>Amherst College Depository opens
</event>
</chronItem>
</chronList>
<citation xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-33-4">From the guide to the Amherst College Library Records, 1833-1977, 1876-1933, (Amherst College Archives and Special Collections)</citation>
</biogHist>