Reading room registers, 1936-[ongoing]

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Reading room registers, 1936-[ongoing]

Daily sign-in registers for readers using the Rare Book Room, 1936-1963, and the Special Collections Reading Room, 1963 to present.

2.5 cubic ft. (2 cartons)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7171270

Newberry Library

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Newberry Library. Special Collections Section.

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From 1945 until her retirement in 1969, Amy Wood Nyholm served as cataloguer and research librarian for the Newberry's Modern Manuscripts, later Midwest Manuscripts Collection. Nyholm was hired in 1945 to catalogue manuscript collections newly acquired for the Library by Lloyd Lewis as a result of Librarian Stanley Pargellis' decision to collect personal papers and archives complementing the Library's research strengths (particularly those relating to Chicago and the Mid...

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...