Records of the librarian, 1970-

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Records of the librarian, 1970-

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Appointment books, correspondence, orders and bills, and miscellaneous files documenting the operation of the Grolier Club Library from 1970 under the leadership to Robert Nikirk and Martin Antonetti. There are also the records maintained by assistants to the Librarian, Philip Sperling, Alan Asaf, and Kiimball Higgs. Material from the Nikirk years includes information about the Grolier Club Seminar on Book Collecting (1977), a survey of the Club's collection of private library catalogs by Anthony Hobson, and papers on its catalog and preservation needs by Lucy Jensen and Peter McDonald. The Allen Asaf material documents the Club's entry into the Research Library Information Network (RLIN).

14 boxes (6 linear ft.)

Grolier Club

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SNAC Resource ID: 6830880

Grolier Club

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Nikirk, Robert

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Librarian. From the description of Reminiscences of Robert Nikirk : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308358 Founded in 1884 by a group of seven New York City Book collectors, the Grolier Club has employed librarians for over a century, and in the last few decades they have also assumed the duties of director. Robert Nikirk had a background in art historical studies and employment in a book auction house when he was app...

Grolier Club

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The Grolier Club was founded in Jan. 23, 1884 by a group of seven New York City book collectors with the object, as stated in its constitution, "of literary study and promotion of the arts pertaining to the production of books." From its early days the Club has maintained a library related to collecting, bibliography and books about books. A library endowment fund (sometimes referred to as the "Library Fund) for the Grolier Club was first proposed in 1921, and the first fund-raising campaign amo...

Jensen, Lucy (American painter and muralist, contemporary)

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Hobson, Anthony, 1921-

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Antonetti, Martin D.

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Sperling, Philip.

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Higgs, Kimball

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McDonald, Peter C.

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Research Libraries Group

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Asaf, Allen

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Holzenberg, Eric

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Grolier Club. Library

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Beatrice (Becker) Warde was born in New York City. After graduating from Barnard College, she worked at the American Typefounders' Company Library in Jersey City for four years. In 1925 she went to England and began to write articles on printing history under the name "Paul Beaujon," and was then recruited by the Monotype Corporation. At Monotype Warde edited the Monotype recorder and eventually became director of publicity. She was married to book designer and typographer Frederic Warde, who di...