Records of the Office of the University Librarian, 1894; 1904-1995.

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Records of the Office of the University Librarian, 1894; 1904-1995.

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Correspondence and other files relating to the development and administration of the university's library collections as well as to facilities for housing them, particularly the Robert B. House Undergraduate Library and the Walter Royal Davis Library. Also included are files pertaining to library staff, library automation, and other matters. University librarians whose correspondence figures prominently include Louis Round Wilson, Charles Everett Rush, Jerrold Orne, and James F. Govan.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Walter Royal Davis Library

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Govan, James F.

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Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979

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Louis Round Wilson (27 December 1876-10 December 1979) was born in Lenoir, N.C., and, in the 1890s, attended Davenport College in Lenoir; Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.; and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from which he graduated in May 1899. After teaching for a few years, Wilson embarked on a long and distinguished career in librarianship, library science education, and university administration. Wilson served as librarian and first director of the School of Library...

Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008

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Jerrold Orne (1911- ), library director, Library Science professor, and consultant on library concerns, with a national and international reputation as an expert on academic library buildings, library standards, and bibliographic control. From the guide to the Jerrold Orne Papers, 1940-1988, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) ...

Rush, Charles E. b. 1885.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Robert B. House Undergraduate Library

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Office of the University Librarian.

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Prior to 1850 the university library was a very small collection of books. The student debating societies, the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies, each maintained a larger library made up of volumes purchased by the student members. Not until 1885-1886 were the society libraries incorporated into the university library. Until 1901 the responsibility of operating the library was assigned to a faculty member, who worked in cooperation with members of the Dialectic and Philanthropic societies. L...