Robert Vosper Papers, ca. 1961-1991

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Robert Vosper Papers, ca. 1961-1991

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Robert Gordon Vosper (1913-1994) was the director of libraries (1961-73), professor of library science (1961-83), and emeritus professor and director of William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (1966-81) at UCLA. He also served as President of the Association of College and Research Libraries (1955-56), Chairman of the Association of Research Libraries (1963), and President of the American Library Association (1965-66). The collection includes papers relating to professional meetings, committee work, teaching, and writing.

19 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library

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Powell was a librarian, Strashun the curator at the music library, and Whiting the curator of rare books at the UCLA library (at the respective times of correspondence). Sproul was president of UCLA from 1930 to 1958. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Isolde Klarmann, 1946-1947, 1978. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864679 ...

Vosper, Robert.

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Robert Gordon Vosper was born on June 21, 1913 in Portland, OR; BA (1937) and MA (1939), Univ. of Oregon, 1939; library certificate, UC Berkeley, 1940; junior librarian, UC Berkeley, 1940-42; asst. reference librarian, Stanford Univ., 1942-44; head of acquisitions dept. (1944-48), asst. librarian (1948-49), and assoc. librarian (1949-52), UCLA; director of libraries, Univ. of Kansas, 1952-61, and at UCLA, 1961-73; also professor of library science (1961-83), emeritus professor and director of Wi...