Personal papers, 1888-1990.
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Newberry Library
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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...
Newberry Library. Technical Services Dept.
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Following a two-year experiment (1931-1933) with a Technical Department head, a single technical services administrator, responsible for cataloguing, classification, and ordering, was not reappointed until 1959 when Mabel Erler served for three years as head of the Technical Processes Department. In 1965, a unified department was formed again under Bernard Wilson (1965-1967), and continued under Technical Services librarians David Stam (1967-1971), Richard Seidel (1971-1989), and Margaret Brenne...
