Guide to the Pamela Spence Richards Papers 1963-1998

ArchivalResource

Guide to the Pamela Spence Richards Papers 1963-1998

Papers of Pamela Spence Richards, Professor of Library Studies at Rutgers University from 1977 until her death in 1999. The collection consists of publications, reports, reprints of published materials, and correspondence. The papers also document Pamela Richards’ service to Rutgers University as chair of the Library and Information Science (LIS) Search Committee, the LIS Scholarship Committee, the LIS Budget Committee and the Curriculum Committee. Works and papers in the collection representative of Professor Richards’ service to the scholarly community at large, include records from the boards and committees of the more than fifteen professional associations on which she served; more than twenty journal articles, including some in Russian, French and German; as well as numerous conference proceedings.

6 cubic ft. (13 manuscript boxes)

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6630296

Related Entities

There are 85 Entities related to this resource.

American Philosophical Society

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gn8xhn (corporateBody)

Benjamin Franklin founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743 in Philadelphia, patterning it after the Royal Society of London. It's purpose was the promotion of the study of science and the practical arts of agriculture, engineering trades, and manufactures. Subjects of today's "philosophy" were generally excluded from the societies of the 17th and 18th centuries and the word "philosophy" meant to them "love of knowledge," and was essentially the equivalent of today's "science." Interest...

Columbia University

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r0313j (corporateBody)

The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

Smit, Jacobus Wilhelmus

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61q2qv1 (person)

Beta Phi Mu

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp1ftr (corporateBody)

Library science society. From the description of Chapbooks, 1953-[ongoing]. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28414156 The Beta Phi Mu organization was founded in 1948 as an honorary society for those outstanding in the fields of library and information science, library education and librarianship. Its members are elected by either the Executive Secretary of Beta Phi Mu or by the local chapter which has attested to their eligibility. Selected ...

Wessells, Helen E. (Helen Elizabeth), 1903-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n91tnn (person)

Librarian (Columbia School of Library Service, 1926); information consultant and cultural officer in Australia for the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II, 1943-1947; and a director of Asian libraries for the U.S. Information Service, 1948-1951. Wessells was one of a number of librarians whose mission was to foster domestic understanding for America's war effort in allied and neutral nations. She Contributed to library developemnt in Australia and later was a planner and spokeswom...

Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt1tzq (person)

American author and educator; professor of history of art, Rutgers University. From the description of Autobiography, 1929. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28743604 Librarian, art historian and critic, and professor of art at Rutgers College, of New Brunswick, N.J. From the description of My golden age : personal narrative of American life from 1861 to 1931, 1931. (New Jersey Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70958363 ...

Richards, Pamela Spence, 1941-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zh194k (person)

Pamela Richards was associated with Rutgers University for 22 years, from 1977 until her death in 1999. During that time, she progressed from being an Instructor in the Department of Library and Information Studies, to an Assistant professor to Associate professor in 1984. She graduated as an undergraduate from Harvard, and received an M.A. and M.L.S. from Columbia. In 1979, she received her doctorate in Library Studies from Columbia. In addition to teaching at Rutgers, Richards was chair of the...

Council on Library Resources

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w7396 (corporateBody)

Payne, Barbara

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65n91g1 (person)

Vsesoiuznyi institut nauchnoi i tekhnicheskoi informatsii (Soviet Union)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dh02mm (corporateBody)

Kaegbein, Paul

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v84879 (person)

Reeling, Patricia G.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dh1fvp (person)

Sturges, R. P. (Rodney Paul)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bc8g2f (person)

Schmidmaier, Dieter.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68s96ws (person)

International Research and Exchanges Board

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp926b (corporateBody)

The Inter-University Committee on Travel Grants (IUCTG) was established in the 1950s to administer academic exchanges between the US and the Soviet Union and East Europe. For a period in its early years, the IUCTG was headquartered at Indiana University and chaired by IU professor Robert Byrnes until 1968, when it was absorbed by the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and moved to New York. From the description of International Research and Exchanges Board records, 195...

National Endowment for the Humanities

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n30jx (corporateBody)

Anderson, James D. (James Doig), 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q38pvw (person)

Krause, Friedhilde, 1928-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zp8q6t (person)

Krueckeberg, Donald A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk76d7 (person)

Sarkowski, Heinz

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hm9s3z (person)

Jacobus, Caroline W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65f38gk (person)

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6207fw4 (corporateBody)

Puniello, Françoise

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67v2ccv (person)

Saracevic, Tefko

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tp21r6 (person)

United States Information Agency

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mm03bb (corporateBody)

Neavill, Gordon Barrick, 1945-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jd9ddp (person)

International Federation for Documentation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69k9bzk (corporateBody)

International Federation of Library Associations

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq32xd (corporateBody)

Libraries and Culture.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rc41r7 (corporateBody)

Schmitz, Rainer, church musician

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r35r31 (person)

Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hz4q44 (corporateBody)

Goldberg, Edward D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z4qp6 (person)

Linderman, Winifred B.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6557c8w (person)

O'Conner, Daniel O.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds7k3h (person)

New Brunswick Library Advisory Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kx8sj4 (corporateBody)

Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w713m0 (person)

Wayne Wiegand, library historian and Melvil Dewey biographer, received his B.A in history from University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh in 1968 which he followed with an MA in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1970. As a graduate student in history he became interested in libraries and upon completion of his M.A. he went on to receive his Masters of Library Science at Western Michigan University and finally a Ph.D. in history at Southern Illinois University. From the descrip...

Wild, Peter

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bx0h64 (person)

Peter Wild is a noted writer of poetry and nonfiction prose. Wild is well-known for his literary works such as Cochise and Easy Victory. His poems have been published in numerous magazines, which include Ironwood, Chicago Review, and The American Poetry Review. Over the last decade Wild has become the foremost authority on John C. Van Dyke and the Mojave Desert. His contributions to this field include Daggett: Life in a Mojave Frontier Town; The White Heart of Mojave: an Adventure w...

Van Orden, Phyllis.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6np6ng1 (person)

Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gj86c4 (corporateBody)

Busse, Gisela ˜vonœ

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b1mm1 (person)

United States Information Agency

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mm03bb (corporateBody)

Budd, Richard W.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vv6gr4 (person)

American Council of Learned Societies. Meeting

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6991z7t (corporateBody)

Founded in 1919 to promote advancement of the humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies represents about 30 societies and association. Serves as the spokesgroup for the International Union of Academics. The Council publishes "Speculum" and "The Journal of the History of Ideas", and also helps administer the Fulbright Program. From the description of Collection, 1956-1964. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 23196764 ...

Special Interest Group of the International Relations Committee

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w613945g (corporateBody)

Journal of library history.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kq4fgh (corporateBody)

Begun as the Journal of Library History, also known as Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship, at Florida State University in 1966, the journal moved to the University of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Donald G. Davis of the School of Information took over editorship, in 1976. Twelve years later, the journal’s name changed to Libraries and Culture: A Journal of Library History . After Davis’s retirement in 2005, Dr. David B. Gracy, II, a member of the edit...

Lederman, Linda Costigan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj70x4 (person)

Davis, Donald

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bh0zfh (person)

Donald Davis was born in 1938. He attended public school in Colorado and eventually achieved a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Davis became an avid follower of Harvey Butchart and corresponded with him regularly since 1964. The correspondence continued until 1989. Mr. Davis has explored much of the Grand Canyon on foot and has hiked, climbed, and caved in much of the Southwest. From the guide to the Donald D...

Varlejs, Jana.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f525w2 (person)

Association for Library and Information Science Education.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hn25tm (corporateBody)

OLIN, FERRIS

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69m91vv (person)

Fasick, Adele M.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zb430q (person)

Wilkens, Edward B. (Edward Bernhardt), 1911-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66b1m1d (person)

Mueller, Iris Wessel, 1928-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64x9rd8 (person)

Hunt, Todd

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v5b8x (person)

Erickson, Carol A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tv9fk9 (person)

Cunningham, George

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x9t3p (person)

Epithet: Dr organist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001027.0x000080 ...

Miller, Sara

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hv7cxd (person)

Turock, Betty J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6518g0j (person)

Association of American Library Schools.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sf95pw (corporateBody)

Williams, Martha E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pp1rjk (person)

Salton, Gerard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6043g3g (person)

Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University. Salton has worked in the areas of natural language text processing, automatic text processing, and informational retrieval; editor-in-chief, Association for Computing Machinery Communications; Guggenheim Fellow, 1963. From the guide to the Gerard Salton papers., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) ...

Fisher, Wesley A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pt2km5 (person)

Haas, Warren J., 1924-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gv05d7 (person)

Minerva

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w625673p (corporateBody)

Minerva, a journal devoted to "matters pertaining to the social, economic, political, and administrative aspects of science, scholarship and higher learning" was founded by Edward Shils, Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and in Sociology, 1962. Shils edited the journal until his death in 1995. From the guide to the Minerva. Records, 1962-1968, (Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A.) ...

Bloustein, Edward J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x92w8d (person)

King, Don

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vg1p1h (person)

Mitchell, John

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gg0m1w (person)

Epithet: of Add MS 40374 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0003a8 Epithet: RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0003ac Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel; Major -General 1855 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000474.0x0003a4 Epithet: Ald...

Hahn, Trudi Bellardo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx2xnj (person)

Library Quarterly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6264vpb (corporateBody)

Cooper, K. R.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nb21c8 (person)

Albaric, Michel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61h59tp (person)

Répertoire international de la littérature de l'art

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6549jv0 (corporateBody)

Xi, Wang.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6237jcp (person)

MENOU, M. J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m706c (person)

Carr, David K.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61d6mj5 (person)

United Nations. Advisory Committee for the Co-ordination of Information Systems

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6898314 (corporateBody)

Association of College and Research Libraries.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62c43dc (corporateBody)

American Society for Information Science. Annual Meeting

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m0918t (corporateBody)

Professional association which creates, organizes, disseminates, and applies knowledge regarding information and its transfer. ASIS was preceded by the American Documentation Institute (ADI), which was founded in 1937 with the goal of acquiring and indexing the knowledge of the world. In 1968, the organization's name was changed to reflect the evolution of its range of activities and the emergence of information science as an identifiable discipline. From the description of ASIS reco...

Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c95mrj (corporateBody)

Wedgeworth, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b40kjh (person)

Williams, Chester S. (Chester Sidney), 1907-1992

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65x4xgn (person)

American Chester Sidney Williams (b. 1907) was an administrator of educational programs and a public relations officer for the United States and the United Nations, from 1930 to 1952. From 1952 to 1963, he was a public relations consultant for private businesses and non-profit agencies. In 1968, Williams retired to Sarasota, Florida, where became very involved in community affairs and hosted radio and television programs. Williams advocated for global awareness and an emphasis on internationalis...

Ruben, Brent D.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66x2mvd (person)

Council on International Educational Exchange

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb1db2 (corporateBody)

International Federation of Educative Communities

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6995425 (corporateBody)