Reader Services Librarian's administrative files, 1891-1955.

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Reader Services Librarian's administrative files, 1891-1955.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26890447

Includes miscellaneous files (memoranda, collection inventories, service schedules) relating to the operations of the Public Services Division and dating primarily from the first three decades of the Library's operation.

.5 cubic ft. (1 box)

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library

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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. Reader Services Dept.

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In 1916 the Public Services (Reference) Division was created consisting of the Main Reading Room, Department of History and Genealogy, Edward E. Ayer Collection, and Exhibition Room. Between 1916 and 1961 five librarians administered the Division: Gerald M. W. Teyen (1916-1919), William S. Merrill (1919-1928), Edwin E. Willoughby (1929-1930), John T. Windle (1931-1948), and Ben C. Bowman (1949-1962). In 1962 the Division of Public Services was disbanded and the head of e...