Margaret I. King papers, 1879-1966.

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Margaret I. King papers, 1879-1966.

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This collection consists of materials from 1893 to 1966 relating to Margaret I. King's personal and professional activities and to the development and growth of the library at the University of Kentucky. Items in this collection document the history of the University of Kentucky in general, and the history of the University's library in particular. This collection also includes materials relating to other libraries in Kentucky and to the development of libraries in Kentucky.

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King, Margaret I. (Margaret Isadora), 1879-1966.

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"She has built the library up from one that could be housed in a single room to a library that now contains more than 400,000 volumes and is fourth or fifth in size among the libraries of the South. It would be impossible to estimate the value of her contribution to the University of Kentucky." (Board of Trustees Minutes 6/25/1948:48). This is how President Donovan described Margaret I. King in 1948. As the University's first librarian, King played a vital role in the development an...

University of Kentucky.

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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed ...

University of Kentucky., Libraries

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