The North Carolina State University Libraries’ Associate Director for Public Services is primarily concerned with meeting the needs of the Libraries’ users including students, faculty, staff, and the outlying community. There is some overlap in terms of responsibilities and therefore records of the Public Services Council, Assistant Director for Reference Services, and the Assistant Director for General Services. Topics addressed by Public Services include photocopy services, interlibrary loan of materials, reference services, usability of library collection guides, and serials cataloging.
Since 1924, to a relatively declining degree as of 2009, the D. H. Hill Library has been a depository library of the U. S. Government Printing Office. Examples of these documents include Congressional publications in the forms of bills, resolution, hearings, debates, and laws; Environmental Protection Agency documents; and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records.
Many of the records appear to have belonged to William C. Lowe, who served as Director of the Technical Information Center in 1966 and Assistant Director for Reference Services in 1971. In the 1990s, Charles Gilreath held the position of Associate Director for Public Services.
In August of 1999, The Donald E. Moreland Associate Director for Public Services, the first named position in the NCSU Libraries, was created from an endowment established by Professor Emeritus Donald E. Moreland and his wife, Verdie S. Moreland. Carolyn D. Argentati was the first to hold the position.
From the guide to the North Carolina State University Libraries, Associate Director for Public Services records, Bulk, 1960-1990, 1905-1998, (Special Collections Research Center)
