Jerrold Orne (1911- ), library director, Library Science professor, and consultant on library concerns, with a national and international reputation as an expert on academic library buildings, library standards, and bibliographic control. Correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings, and other items relating to Orne's career in librarianship. Included are materials from his tenure at the Library of Congress, where, from 1940 to around 1944, he surveyed the collections and coordinated the defense effort for protecting materials in case of attack; his 1945 service as assistant librarian in the office of Alger Hiss during the United Nations Conference on International Organization; and his work in making available technical and scientific information generated by government-sponsored war research, 1946-1947. Also documented are his library directorships at Washington University, St. Louis, 1946-1952; Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., 1952-1956; and the University of North Carolina, 1957-1973.There is also material on Orne's employment as consultant on library topics, including his work, 1950-1959, with Cuban libraries, and his U.S. State Department-sponsored visit in 1965 to survey the conditions of libraries in Vietnam.
