Library Card Catalog, 1958 [photograph].

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Library Card Catalog, 1958 [photograph].

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JPL Library, 6 February 1958 [Description from photo index.]. Pictured above is the JPL Library card catalog in February 1958. The Library officially opened its doors to the JPL community in the summer of 1951, in a small room in the west wing of the administration building (111). Since 1951, the Library has grown from a small reading room housing a few hundred scientific books and journals to an information center that services thousands of JPL and contractor employees. Today the Library offers an integrated online collection management system available internally to JPL customers, as well as to the general public.

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One of the first people hired at GALCIT Project #1 in November 1941 was photographer George Emmerson (1913-1994), an emigrant from Newcastle, Great Britain. Audrey Voice and Mary J. Taylor as photographer's assistants joined Emmerson in 1943. Emmerson took almost all the early photos that became a part of this collection, a collection described in brief as the work product of the JPL Photolab. As JPL grew, so did the assignments to the Photolab to photograph all Laborato...