Ralph A. Beals records 1946-1954

New York Public Library. Central Administration. Director's Office.

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Richard De Gennaro (1926-) was Director of the New York Public Library from 1987 to 1990, at which time he assumed the position of Librarian of Harvard College. Prior to his appointment at N.Y.P.L., he had held senior library positions at Harvard and was the Director of Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1986. From the guide to the Richard De Gennaro records, 1987-1990, (The New York Public Library. New York Public Library Archives.) Franklin Ferguson H...

Hopper, F. F. (Franklin Ferguson)

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Freehafer, Edward Geier, 1909-1985

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Beals, Ralph A. (Ralph Albert)

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The period when Ernest D. Burton and J.C.M. Hanson each served as Director of the Library brought the construction of Harper Library, and a formal review and planning process for the library system. Despite these efforts, the University of Chicago Library remained decentralized and administratively unstable for much of the first half of the twentieth century. The long and often conflicted process of evaluation and planning continued under M. Llewellyn Raney, who assumed ...