Records of the Gifts and Exchanges Section : domestic gifts and exchanges 1970-1985 (inclusive)

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Records of the Gifts and Exchanges Section : domestic gifts and exchanges 1970-1985 (inclusive)

Contains correspondence relating to donors and exchanges, and orders for materials, from people and organizations within the United States, excluding Harvard University.

2 cubic feet in 6 containers

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SNAC Resource ID: 8186017

Harvard University Archives.

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Harvard college library

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Harvard College Library. Gifts and Exchange Section.

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