The collection contains records pertaining to Pollard's faculty appointment and administrative position with Eastern Illinois University's Library Science Program and her role in the library services profession. EIU's library science program and the area of Library Services are documented through annual reports, minutes, memoranda, correspondence, policies and procedures, course files, class rosters, handbooks, scrapbooks, brochures, newspaper articles, photographs, audio tapes and vinyl sound recordings, and subject files. Items of a personal nature include correspondence, personal planners, biographical sketches, awards, yearbooks, photographs, and realia. Publications related to EIU library programming, library supply catalogs, and articles. The strengths of the collection are the records documenting the Library Science Program prior to 1980, and those documenting Pollard's professional career and activities at Eastern.
