Correspondence of the Ordering Department, 1915-1921 (inclusive)

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Correspondence of the Ordering Department, 1915-1921 (inclusive)

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Contains correspondence of the Superintendant of the Ordering Department, David Heald, and other librarians with non-Harvard libraries concerning the exchange of publications.

.6 cubic feet in 2 containers.

Harvard University Archives.

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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 College Library. Ordering Department.

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Heald, David, 1882-1945.

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