University of Idaho Library Administration records

University of Idaho Library Administration records, 1905-1990

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Library Administration
Title: University of Idaho Library Administration records
Dates: 1905-1990 (inclusive)
19051990
Quantity: 23 cubic feet
Collection Number: UG 050, UG 050 (collection)
Summary: Correspondence, memos, budget planning material and other records of library directors and assistant directors.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Languages
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

Directors of the University of Idaho Library

John E. Bonebright was hired as a math and physics instructor by the university in 1893; added to these duties was the position of "librarian". When he went to full time teaching in the fall of 1896 he was replaced by Stella Maud Allen, an 1896 graduate of the University. She organized the collection and began classifying books according to the Dewey Decimal system. Allen resigned in 1899 and Margaret B. McCallie, an 1898 graduate of the University was appointed as her successor. McCallie resigned in October 1905. The library's first professionally trained head was M. Belle Sweet who assumed her position in November 1905, just months before the March 30, 1906 fire destroyed the administration building which housed the library. Sweet rebuilt the collection and remained as head librarian for 43 years, until her retirement in 1948. She was followed by Lee Zimmerman, 1948-1967, Warren Owens, 1968-1986, Eileen Hitchingham, 1987-1990, and Ron Force, 1990 to present. Associate Director Richard Beck served as interim head of the library between Zimmerman and Owens and again between Owens and Hitchingham. Beck's position was head of Public Services while Assistant Director Stanley Shepard was head of Technical Services.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The records of the first four Library Administrators and two assistant administrators span the years 1906 to 1990.

Included in each official's records are correspondence and memos, minutes of meetings, budget preparation materials and other financial records. Material such as scrapbooks of clippings about the library and microfilm of the library shelf list which are not connected to a specific administration are in the final series.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The records of M. Belle Sweet and Lee Zimmerman were in file cabinets and retain their received arrangement. The records of Warren Owens and Eileen Hitchingham were transferred to Special Collections at various times during and after their administrations and were put in alphabetical order during processing. The papers of Richard Beck and Stan Shepard which were sometimes in their own accession and sometimes in the files of the administrator were placed together and arranged alphabetically. Therefore, each official has his or her own alphabetical file; original folder headings were retained. Occasionally the material from one administration will overlap into the next administration.

Each director has his or her own series. The records of M. Belle Sweet are important in that they are the first records of the library extant, the previous records having been destroyed in the 1906 fire. It appears from typed notes in some of the folders that the papers were arranged after her departure and that some material was discarded. Copies of outgoing correspondence from 1906-1915 are in three letterpress books.

The papers of Lee Zimmerman may also have been sorted and arranged shortly after his retirement. The are arranged in broad subject areas, with specific related areas following. The first section of correspondence is an A-Z arrangement, with a few folders with specific names inserted. In the second correspondence section each folder has a specific organizational name. The university departmental correspondence is arranged by college, then department; in the following inventory the name of the college is underlined. A number of folders in this series concern the planning of the new library building which opened in 1957.

The papers of Warren Owens are in a single alphabetical file. In addition to library related correspondence, memos, budgets, etc., the records of his administration include references to the Barnard-Stockbridge photograph collection, the Basque book collection, and the founding of ICOSAL (Idaho Council of State Academic Libraries).

Likewise, the papers of Eileen Hitchingham are in a single alphabetical file. Her records contain material relating to the University centennial celebration in 1989, as well as the usual library related correspondence and committee minutes.

The records of Associate Director Richard Beck, and Assistant Director Stanley Shepard are in Series V; each has his own sub-series. Beck was Associate Director for Public Services and his records include the staff attitude survey, committee records, and memos. Many of his papers are included in the records of the several directors under which he served.

Stanley Shepard was Assistant Director for Technical Services. Some of his correspondence concerns arrangements with commercial binderies, committees looking into the problems of conversion to the Library of Congress cataloging system and other technical services committees, his work on ILA and PNLA Bibliography and Publications committees and his membership on the University of Idaho ROTC/Officer Education committee.

Series VI contains material not identified with a specific administrator. Included are bound volumes of library expenditures from 1931 to 1956 (lacking only the records for 1946-1948), faculty and staff handbooks, library guides, the periodicals printout in microfiche form from 1978-1987, the microfilm of the library shelflist done in 1973 with the 1978 supplement, Robert Hook's notes for his history of the library which he wrote in 1972, and five scrapbooks, 1950 to 1988, with articles relating to the university library.

Monthly financial records were discarded. To preserve confidentiality of personnel records including applications and evaluations, and because the Human Resources Office of the University is the official repository of such records, the library's copies of these records were destroyed. Likewise time cards and other material concerning student workers was discarded. This reduced the records by 30 cubic feet. In 2024, an additional bankers box of material was added to the collection from Stanley Shepard. Due to the location of Shepard's previous materials within the collection, it was decided to create a new series but leave the previous material where it was. Within the box, materials were transferred to new foldersd during processing. Materials are arranged by topic. Some folders are separated into two sections, all relating to similar topics. These materials are from Shepards time at the University and prior (1942-1984).

Acquisition Information

The records of the Library Directors from Belle Sweet to Eileen Hitchingham were transferred to University of Idaho Library Special Collections between 1970 and 1996. Stanley Shepard donated material on 12 November 1984.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series VII: Stanley Shepard additional materialsReturn to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
1/1	Administration, Miscellaneous 3 items	1930-1945
1/2	ALA Public Documents Committee 8 items	1934
1/3	ALA Questionnaire 1 item	1924
1/4	Audubon Prints 5 items	1946
1/5	Bibliographies 3 items	ca. 1940
1/6-8	Budget requests 89 items	19l3-1949
1/9	Carlson study 20 items	1932-1937
os/10-12	Correspondence: Letterpress books 3 items	1906-1915
1/13-15	Forestry 348 items	1934-1943
1/16	Miscellaneous 33 items	1906-1948
1/17	President 65 items	1915-1949
1/18	W.E. Borah 11 items	1910-1915
1/19	Curtis: North American Indian 13 items	1923-1939
1/20	Documents, State 16 items	1940-1945
os/21	Expenditures 1 item	1912-1919
1/22	Forestry, Special Report of 1 item	1936
1/23	Funds, Departmental division of 30 items	1910-1941
1/24	Genera Insectorum 7 items	1920-1923
1/25	Gifts 54 items	1906
1/26	Borah scrapbooks 14 items	1940-1941
1/27	Day collection 10 items	1941
1/28	Lists 15 items	1929-1942
1/29	Miscellaneous 89 items	1908-1947
1/30	Reports 2 items	1913-1922
1/31	Sara Annette Bowman library 21 items	1931-1932
1/32	Globe 22 items	1940-1941
1/33	Idaho Free Traveling Library - Library legislation 7 items	1934
1/34	Idaho State Library Planning Board 12 items	1934
1/35	Law School Library 20 items	1911-1941
1/36	Library building & equipment, 1st stacks 9 items	1909
1/37	Library building & equipment 52 items	1911-1946
2/38-41	Library Committee minutes 185 items	1905-1948
2/42	Libraries, Idaho 2 items	1909-1917
2/43	Lost lists 11 items	1937-1948
2/44	Manuals, etc. 5 items	1939-1952
2/45	Map collection 37 items	1940-1948
2/46	Moscow Drama Club 2 items	1920
2/47	Museum, University 3 items	1940-1948
2/48	Office of Price Administration 15 items	1944-1945
2/49	Periodical list 5 items	1906-1934
2/50	Periodicals 3 items	1943
2/51	German, World War I 40 items	1914-1920
2/52	Personnel, Individual A-Z 12 items	1944-1948
2/53	Phi Beta Kappa report 1 item	1942
2/54-55	Correspondence regarding posters, World War I 176 items (posters in oversize)	1918-1919
2/56	Correspondence regarding posters, World War II 11 items (posters in oversize)	1937-1942
2/57	Rules, Library 8 items	1899-ca. 1940
2/58	Salaries: Questionnaires & special letters 19 items	1921-1945
2/59	Special Collections, archives 1 item	1944
2/60	Special Collections: Pacific Northwest history list 1 item	1940
2/61	Patterson diary & Hawk's collections 2 items	1935-1942
2/62	Stack privileges 1 item	1947
2/63	Statistics, Cataloging 1 item	1922-1935
2/64	Statistics, General 18 items	1931-1948
2/65	Theses requirements 4 items	1922-1940
2/66	Van Male report 16 items	1941-1943
2/67	Vincent, W.D., Library of N.W. history 3 items	1935-1936
2/68	War Records, World War II, University of Idaho 4 items	1943-1944
2/69	W.S.C. Cooperation 33 items	1910-1944

Series I.M. Belle Sweet, 1905-1948Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
3/70	Administration memoranda: Buchanan-Zimmerman 54 items	1948-June 1954
3/71-72	Theophilus-Zimmerman 196 items	July 1954-July 1965
3/73	Hartung-Zimmerman 49 items	1965-1967
3/74	Steffens-Zimmerman 18 items	1954-1967
3/75	Bursar-Zimmerman 125 items	1948-1964
3/76	Advertising positions 20 items	1960-1964
3/77-78	Book collection: Withdrawn 29 items	1949-1966
3/79	Book inventory 19 items	1954-1965
3/80	Book plate 2 items	undated
3/81	Book selection 12 items	1951-1958
3/82	Documents, Federal 6 items	1951-1957
3/83	Paperbound books 1 item	1953
3/84	Periodicals 40 items	1951-1957
3/85	Periodicals manual 2 items	1954
3/86	Protection of books 2 items	1950-1952
3/87	Readers Services: Reserve books 21 items	1915-1951
3/88	Serials manual 1 item	ca. 1966
3/89-90	Special Collections, manuals, etc. 97 items	1951-1956
3/91-92	Book fund allocations 20 items	1948-1963
3/93	Bookmark 4 items	1963-1966
3/94-95	Correspondence 98 items	1948-1966
3/96	Staff memoranda 58 items	1955-1967
3/97	Reprint permission 47 items	1948-1966
3/98	Budget programs, Biennial 6 items	1957-1966
3/99-107	Budgets, Biennial 308 items	1949-1967
4/108-109	Budget expenditures: Monthly statements 28 items	1949-1966
4/110-111	Correspondence, A-B 79 items	1948-1967
4/112	Baker & Taylor policy 20 items	1949
4/113	Baldwin Bindery 30 items	1966-1967
4/114-119	C-N 235 items	1948-1967
4/120	Mills, Nellie Ireton 12 items	1952-1953
4/121	Moore, Margaret McCallie 18 items	1951-1953
4/122	O-R 35 items	1948-1967
4/123	Obler, Eli 7 items	1948-1967
4/124-125	S-Z 80 items	1948-1967
4/126	American Library Association 2 items	1955-1967
4/127	Idaho Historical Society 52 items	1951-1965
4/128	Idaho State Library 12 items	1964-1966
4/129	Library Journal, Wilson Library Journal 2 items	1961-1962
5/130	Library of Congress 20 items	1952-1964
5/131	Shipment of books, Asia, Philippines, etc., Idaho Project 52 items	1950-1956
5/132	University of Washington Library School 12 items	1949-1965
5/133	USBE 30 items	1948-1964
5/134	U.S. Office of Education 20 items	1948-1965
5/135	Washington State University 5 items	1950-1964
5/136	Departmental correspondence: Adult Education and Summer School 9 items	1959-1965
5/137	Alumni secretary 20 items	1949-1963
5/138	Argonaut, A.S.U.I., Athletics 18 items	1955-1967
5/139	Bookstore, Museum, Non-resident instruction 6 items	1945-1966
5/140	Physical plant, Store room 81 items	1952-1966
5/141	Publications 61 items	1947-1966
5/142	Purchasing Office 64 items	1949-1967
5/143	Radio-TV Center; Registrar 28 items	1948-1963
5/144	R.O.T.C. 23 items	1945-1965
5/145	Student Affairs; Student Health Center 27 items	1946-1966
5/146	Agriculture, College of, and Experiment Station 90 items	1946-1965
5/147	Agricultural Chemistry, Ag. Economics, Ag. Education, Ag. Engineering 56 items	1944-1967
5/148	Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Bacteriology, Dairy Science 47 items	1945-1966
5/149	Entomology, Extension Service, Horticulture 11 items	1946-1966
5/150	Plant Pathology, Poultry Husbandry, Veterinary Science 26 items	1944-1964
5/151	Business, College of, Office Administration 53 items	1946-1966
5/152	Education, College of 66 items	1944-1966
5/153	Physical Education, Psychology 19 items	1945-1966
5/154	Engineering, College of, and Experiment Station 47 items	1947-1966
5/155	Forestry, College of, and ExperimentStation; Wildlife Management and Research Unit 67 items	1948-1967
5/156	Graduate School and Council 157 items	1944-1967
5/157	Law, College of 16 items	1950-1965
5/158	Letters and Science, College of, and Bureau of Public Affairs Research 84 items	1944-1966
5/159	Art and Architecture, Biological Sciences, Botany, Chemistry 65 items	1944-1966
5/160	English, History, American 77 items	1945-1966
5/161	Home Economics, Humanities, Journalism, Foreign Languages 63 items	1945-1967
5/162	Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Physics 51 items	1945-1965
5/163	Political Science, Sociology, Zoology 74 items	1948-1966
5/164	Mines, College of, and Bureau of Mines andGeology, Geology and Geography 84 items	1945-1966
5/165	Forms, manuals, brochures, etc. 1 item	undated
5/166	Gift file correspondence: Long range 16 items	1965-1967
5/167-168	Gift correspondence: A-D 149 items
5/169	Day, Mrs. Jerome 18 items	1950-1962
5/170-171	E-J 113 items
5/172	Jennngs, Talbot 49 items	1951-1963
6/173-176	K-S 227 items
6/177	Stockbridge, Nellie 20 items	1958-1965
6/178	T-Z 56 items
6/179-180	Irregular Help: Expenditures 15 items	1947/1948-1963/1964
6/181	Memoranda 22 items	1953-1967
6/182	Library Associates: Brochures 2 items	undated
6/183	Alumni contributions 23 items	1962-1966
6/184-185	Correspondence: Henry Day 96 items	1962-1967
6/186	Correspondence: Lucy Day 24 items	1963-1966
6/187	Correspondence: Richard Magnuson 28 items	1963-1966
6/188	General, Miscellaneous 24 items	1963-1967
6/189	Reports, minutes 14 items	1963-1967
6/190	Solicitations 12 items	1965
6/191	Library Associations: American Library Association 1 item	1948
6/192	ALA Archives and History Committee 36 items	1950-1963
6/193	Association of College and ReferenceLibraries 32 items	1948-1961
6/194	Idaho Library Association: Correspondence 2 items	1961
6/195	Legislation 50 items	1945-1963
6/196	Membership 2 items	1963
6/197	Pacific Northwest Bibliographic Center 56 items	1944-1961
6/198	PNBC-PNLA survey 2 items	1957-1958
6/199	Pacific Northwest Library Association 45 items	1948-1957
6/200	Pacific Northwest Library Association, Library Development Committee 33 items	1949-1952
6/201	Pacific Northwest Library Association, Development project 39 items	1956-1958
6/202	Library Building, New: Air conditioning-inter-office memos 17 items	1965-1967
6/203-204	Correspondence 78 items	1951-1967
6/205	ACRL building committee 27 items	1952-1954
6/206	Architect, President, Librarian, University Engineer 101 items	1954-1957
6/207	Library staff 23 items	1955-1957
6/208	Description 2 items	1956-1958
6/209	Equipment: Supplied by contractor 11 items	undated
6/210	Equipment: Memoranda, Purchasing agent 37 items	1957-1958
6/211	Equipment schedule: Item & cost 72 items	1957
7/212	Equipment schedule: Replacement 1 item	1957
7/213	Furniture desiderata, sketches 19 items	1957
7/214-215	Furniture specifications 5 items	1957
7/216	Specifications: General, electrical, mechanical 3 items	1956
7/217	Inter-com system 2 items	1957
7/218	Library building keys 3 items	1956-1957
7/219	Location chart, furniture and equipment 1 item	1957
7/220	Miscellany 29 items	1953-1957
7/221	Moving: Decisions and procedures 16 items	1955-1957
7/222	Moving: Staff memoranda 32 items	1955-1957
7/223	Preliminary proposals 2 items	1951
7/224	Stack information 14 items	1955-1957
7/225	Work sheets: Floor plans 4 items	1957
7/226	Work sheets: Floor play layout 19 items	1957
7/227	First plan, correspondence 53 items	1950-1953
7/228	Equipment memoranda: Business houses 40 items	1951-1957
7/229	Library Building, Old: Improvement fund 34 items	1948-1954
7/230	Memos to Physical Plant 60 items	1948-1955
7/231	Library Committee: Boyer, William 7 items	1948-1956
7/232	Barr, William 16 items	1956-1958
7/233	Harder, Roger 10 items	1958-1960
7/234	Hunter, William 16 items	1960-1962
7/235	Buscemi, Philip 1 item	1963
7/236	Library Log 23 items	1965-1967
7/237	Library Staff: Organization of staff personnel 6 items	1950-1964
7/238	Orientation 1 item	undated
7/239	Inter-office communications 154 items	1951-1967
7/240	Former, correspondence 34 items	1951-1966
7/241	Personnel analysis, ratings, forms 10 items	1952-1966
7/242	Salaries 15 items	1954-1965
7/243-244	Personnel, A-D 26 items
8/245-253	Personnel, E-Z 71 items
8/254	Library surveys, Off campus: forms 6 items	undated
8/255	Brigham Young University 20 items	1966
8/256	Gonzaga University accreditation 15 items	1966
8/257	University of Oregon accreditation 24 items	1966
8/258	Pacific Lutheran University survey 19 items	1962
8/259	Portland State College accreditation 6 items	1959
8/260	Portland State College accreditation 2 items	1965
8/261	Library surveys, On campus 9 items	1948-1964
8/262	Library holdings 3 items	1912-1952
8/263	Staff committee reports 16 items	1954-1965
8/264	Miscellaneous: Library cartoons 3 items	1957-1961
8/265	Butler Hut 7 items	1952-1960
8/266	Comparative data, other universities 16 items	1951-1965
8/267	Exhibits 5 items	1953
8/268	Idaho-WSU serials project 48 items	1958-1963
8/269	Map: Livingston relief map of seven western states 21 items	1951-1956
8/270	Publicity: Radio scripts 22 items	1952
8/271	Photocopiers & typewriters 17 items	1964-1968
8/272	Sabbatical leave: Nancy Atkinson 1 item	1965
8/273	Zimmerman, Lee, Personal 19 items	1951-1967
9/274	Policies 3 items	1948-1957
9/275	Acquisition of books 1 item	1959
9/276-277	Library policies 54 items	1948-1958
9/278	Public Services: Head 127 items	1953-1967
9/279	Readers services 63 items	1951-1955
9/280	Reference Department 6 items	1954
9/281	Reference section surveys 4 items	1952-1954
9/282	Attendance 46 items	1948-1966
9/283	Attendance, general surveys 21 items	1958-1962
9/284	Carrels 6 items	1949-1953
9/285	Circulation fines, overdues, clearance 18 items	1954-1956
9/286	Circulation, general 21 items	1951-1954
9/287	Circulation: One card system 10 items	1954
9/288	Circulation manual 2 items	ca. 1952
9/289	Circulation policy 5 items	1954
9/290	Circulation surveys 23 items	1953-1954
9/291	Divisional libraries 68 items	1952-1967
9/292	Free access to stacks 1 item	1950
9/293	General assistant 24 items	1951-1963
9/294	Guides to finding literature and documents 9 items	1955-1960
9/295	Library hours 91 items	1948-1967
9/296-297	Loan section (including stacks) 167 items	1948-1960
9/298	Readers services: Loans, Faculty 24 items	1946-1956
9/299	Readers services: Loans, Non-faculty 27 items	1947-1957
9/300	Library guides and manuals 18 items	1950-1965
9/301	Tour lecture 1 item	1959
9/302-303	Lost and missing books 61 items	1949-1965
9/304	Personnel: Absences 5 items	1950-1957
9/305	Benefits 1 item	1952
9/306	Job descriptions 18 items	1946-1955
9/307	Rating of 3 items	1952-1954
9/308	Time studies 30 items	1944-1955
9/309	State documents 31 items	1948-1958
9/310	Statistics 1 item	1950
9/311	Student reading program 30 items	1950-1956
9/312	Reports, Biennial 10 items	1948-1966
9/313	State Librarian: Drennan, Henry T. 19 items	1959-1961
9/314	Hart, Eugene D. 35 items	1958-1959
9/315	Miller, Helen M. 7 items	1962-1964
9/316	State Library board 23 items	1956-1958
10/317	Technical Services: Memos to staff 124 items	1961-1970
10/318	Memos from staff 44 items	1963-1965
10/319	Memos to the librarian 115 items	1962-1969
10/320	Technical processes, Head 94 items	1951-1967
10/321	Memos from the Librarian 18 items	1962-1967
10/322	Acquisitions 7 items	1959-1961
10/323	Binding, repair, processing 9 items	1954-1959
10/324	Catalog section 29 items	1949-1964
10/325	Manual 1 item	undated
10/326	Atkinson, Archives & Idahoana 6 items	1952
10/327	Catalog statistics, Annual 26 items	1942-1969
10/328	Atkinson: Correspondence 59 items	1941-1968
10/329	Atkinson: Inventory, cost and card catalog 16 items	1953-1969
10/330	Atkinson: Memos and reports 119 items	1949-1968
10/331	Atkinson: State author headings 5 items	1952-1965
10/332	Order Section: Manuals 3 items	1951-1958
10/333	Periodicals Section 18 items	1949-1957
10/334	Commercial Binding 19 items	1968-1969
10/335	Labels 47 items	1962-1965
10/336-337	Social Committee 146 items	1958-1971
10/338	Merlan collection 9 items	1968
10/339	Discards, Correspondence 22 items	1948-1970
10/340	Inventory 37 items	1967

Series II. Lee Zimmerman, 1948-1967Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
10/341	25th Anniversary 8 items	1982
10/342	Acquisitions 29 items	1964-1987
10/343	Affirmative action goals 23 items	1973-1979
10/344	Agreements, Library 46 items	1934-1984
10/345	Agriculture, College of 45 items	1967-1984
10/346	Alumni 15 items	1967-1983
10/347	Argonaut 10 items	1966-1983
10/348	Art and Architecture 23 items	1969-1984
10/349	Assistant Director 8 items	1960-1972
10/350	ASUI 35 items	1969-1982
10/351	ASUI survey 5 items	197
10/352	Athletics 3 items	1982
10/353	Attitude survey 16 items	1972-1973
10/354	Automation 28 items	1965-1983
10/355	Automation and network 31 items	1978-1986
11/356	Barnard-Stockbridge: Agreement, Commercial Photographers 3 items	1983
11/357	Brochure 13 items	1976-1980
11/358	Correspondence 75 items	1974-1979
11/359	Correspondence 35 items	1976
11/360-361	Correspondence 123 items	1978-1984
11/362	Exhibit 20 items	1977-1978
11/363	History 17 items	1979-1980
11/364	Orders 109 items	1978-1983
11/365	Press releases 48 items	1977-1970
11/366	Proposals 8 items	1976-1978
11/367	AHI grant, UI Foundation file 17 items	1978-1981
11/368	AHI grant, Microfiche catalog 9 items	1981-1982
11/369	AHI grant, 1st grant close out 3 items	1979-1981
11/370	AHI grand, 2nd grant, final report 36 items	1980-1982
11/371	NEH grant, UI Foundation file 7 items	1980-1981
11/372	NEH grant, Correspondence 9 items	1981-1982
11/373	NEH grant, Negative plate orders 15 items	1982-1983
11/374	NEH grant, Report (Consultant) 3 items	1981
11/375	NEH grant, Final report 16 items	1982-1983
11/376	Basque collection 15 items	1969-1983
11/377	Brown, Will 34 items	1966
11/378	Correspondence 60 items	1966-1976
11/379	Correspondence: Foreign 30 items	1965-1969
11/380	Correspondence: United States 42 items	1964-1967
11/381	Dealers 57 items	1966-1973
11/382	Foundation grant memoranda 7 items	1965-1967
11/383-386	Biennial reports 13 items	1966-1974
11/387	Book sale 30 items	1971-1972
11/388	Book selection 6 items	1969-1971
11/389	Bookstore 29 items	1975-1984
11/390	Browsing room 13 items	1970
11/391-396	Budget 143 items	1967/1969-1972/1973
12/397-402	Budget, Library and AV center 6 items	1973/1974-1975/1976
12/403-413	Budgets, Library 11 items	1976/1977-1986/1987
12/414	Budget Office 22 items	1968-1983
12/415	Building 48 items	1969-1982
12/416	Catalog 48 items	1972-1987
12/417	Center for Business Development and Research 4 items	1972-1981
12/418	Chemistry 18 items	1969-1987
12/419	Classified staff: Classification 35 items	1974-1981
12/420	Reclassification 100 items	1977-1982
12/421-423	Committees: Library Affairs 214 items	1967-1987
12/424	Library Affairs, by subject 143 items	1968-1985
13/425	Consortium of Western Universities and Colleges 58 items	1968-1971
13/426	Consultants 28 items	1986-1987
13/427	Copyright 13 items	1977-1983
13/428	Computer services 11 items	1969-1984
13/429-430	Correspondence, A-M 107 items	1967-1977
13/431-435	Correspondence, A-Z 200 items	1969-1980
13/436	Correspondence, Bookmark 65 items	1966-1984
13/437	Controllers Office 25 items	1978-1984
13/438	Conferences-Enrichment 5 items	1978-1979
13/439	Development Office 12 items	1968-1981
13/440	Directors Conference 80 items	1968-1970
13/441-443	Minutes (bound) 3 items	1968-1974
13/444	Education 23 items	1967-1983
13/445	Education materials 11 items	1968
13/446	Emergencies 14 items	1968-1987
13/447	Engineering 14 items	1969-1977
13/448	English 14 items	1967-1981
14/449	Faculty affairs 9 items	1969-1983
14/450	Faculty at large 90 items	1969-1987
14/451	Faculty rank for librarians 66 items	1967-1969
14/452	Faculty secretary 45 items	1970-1983
14/453	Financial Affairs 38 items	1975-1984
14/454-455	Fire insurance inventory 52 items	1969-1972
14/456	Foreign Languages 12 items	1970-1976
14/457	Forestry 13 items	1974-1985
14/458	Foundation appeals (Pound collection) 18 items	1974
14/459	Foundation project 19 items	1971
14/460	Geography 7 items	1975-1979
14/461	Graduate School 55 items	1967-1984
14/462	Grant applications 11 items	1972-1974
14/463	Grants and Contracts 7 items	1984-1987
14/464	Graphics committee 40 items	1975-1976
14/465	Bibliographies 20 items	1975-1977
14/466	Guest book 1 item	1958-1985
14/467	High School Relations 6 items	1982-1984
14/468	History 11 items	1967-1981
14/469	Humanities 42 items	1968-1976
14/470	Humanities-Social Science project 19 items	1971-1975
14/471-477	ICOSAL (Idaho Council of State Academic Libraries) 380 items	1967-1985
14/478	Budget material, FY 1983 39 items
14/479	Inflation recommendations 12 items	1980-1986
14/480	Idaho Commission on Arts and Humanities 7 items	1973-1974
14/481	Idaho Research 12 items	1974-1986
14/482	Institute of Human Behavior 12 items	1974-1989
14/483	Instructional Media Services 32 items	1984
14/484	Insurance 7 items	1975-1979
14/485	Job descriptions, clerical 83 items	1970-1974
14/486	Journal retention/cancellation policy 15 items	1986-1987
15/487	Law Library 17 items	1969-1984
15/488	Letters and Science, College of 14 items	1969-1984
15/489	Library Associates, constitution & by-laws 12 items	1967-1985
15/490	Library Associates 27 items	1983-1986
15/491-493	Library Associates 331 items	1969-1987
15/494	Library Council 118 items	1968-1987
15/495-497	Library Log 109 items	1965-1984
15/498	Library faculty 113 items	1975-1986
15/499	Library fellowship allocation 19 items	1967-1970
15/500	Library hours 20 items	1958-1983
15/501	Library organization charts 7 items	1976-1986
15/502	Library orientation 27 items	1968-1980
15/503	Library publications list 22 items	1970-1986
15/504	Library self study 1 item	1973
15/505-506	Library staff association 44 items	1967-1986
15/507	Library use survey 3 items	1975
15/508-509	Long range plan 10 items	1984
15/510	Long range program 1 item	1972
15/511	Manual: Filing in card catalog 1 item	1972
15/512	Library materials selection policy 1 item	1972
15/513	Technical services 1 item	ca. 1959-1961
15/514	Memos 32 items	1968-1972
15/515	Memos from Milo Nelson 39 items	1973-1976
15/516	Merlan collection 22 items	1968-1972
15/517	Mines, College of 15 items	1974-1982
15/518	Miscellaneous questionnaires 13 items	1971-1987
15/519	Music 4 items	1970-1978
15/520	New periodical subscriptions 9 items	1971-1978
15/521	NWASC accreditation 1 item	1984
16/522	Personnel 19 items	1969-1985
16/523	Physical plant 68 items	1960-1986
16/524	PNBC 4 items	1967-1978
16/525	PNLA statistical survey 12 items	1984-1988
16/526	Political science 10 items	1967-1982
16/527	Postharvest Institute 18 items	1980-1981
16/528	Pound lecture 4 items	1986
16/529	President 36 items	1968-1985
16/530	President's office 31 items	1974-1983
16/531	Program review 23 items	1976
16/532	Projection 43 items	1969-1981
16/533	Public Affairs 20 items	1974-1983
16/534	Public Services 78 items	1968-1986
16/535	Public Services meetings 36 items	1973-1987
16/536	Reclassification 39 items	1977-1985
16/537	Replies: Periodicals cancellation memo 15 items	1979
16/538	Risk management 47 items	1974-1984
16/539	Risk management Office 67 items	1984-1988
16/540	Safety 30 items	1979-1986
16/541	Safety Office 4 items	1986-1987
16/542	Science/technology 10 items	1968-1985
16/543	Serials 21 items	1968-1983
16/544	Serials - computer 1976-1985 12 items
16/545-546	SHIP (Sharing information on purchases) 69 items	1974-1978
16/547	Slide presentation 4 items	undated
16/548	Social Sciences 7 items	198-1980
16/549	Sociology 11 items	1968-1984
16/550	Special Collections 65 items	1968-1984
16/551	Staff committees 46 items	1968-1986
16/552-553	Staff memos 127 items	1968-1987
16/554	Staff photographs 32 items	1962-1987
16/555	Statistics 23 items	1980-1987
16/556	Student Advisory Services 14 items	1973-1983
16/557	Technical Services 30 items	1981
16/558	University Communications 6 items	1985-1987
16/559	University Relations 25 items	1968-1978
16/560-561	University statistical reports 2 items	1979-1981
16/562-563	U.S. Dept. of Education grant applications 11 items	1974-1984
16/564	Vet Science 14 items	1975-1987
16/565-566	Vice Presidents Office 145 items	1978-1984
17/567	Welfare Committee 15 items	1973-1975
17/568	WICHE 3 items	1973-1974
17/569-571	WLN (Washington Library Network) 132 items	1978-1987
17/572	Idaho WLN members group 18 items	1983-1986
17/573	Principal member contract 15 items	1984-1986
17/574	WSU/UI taskforce on cooperation 18 items	1981
17/575	WSU miscellaneous 9 items	1982-1988

Series III. Warren Owens, 1968-1986Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
17/576	Affirmative action 7 items	1986-1989
17/577	Agriculture, College of 17 items	1985-1989
17/578	Alumni association 16 items	1983-1989
17/579	American Library Association 5 items	1988-1989
17/580	Animal Science 2 items	1989
17/581	Annenberg Washington Program 2 items	1989
17/582	Argonaut 6 items	1987-1989
17/583	Athena Professional Climate Committee 5 items	1989
17/584	Automation: LaserCat 6 items	1988
17/585	Automation: RLIN 4 items	1986
17/586	Automation 13 items	1987-1988
17/587-588	Automation Committee 73 items	1987-1988
17/589-590	Automation Task Force 39 items	1987-1988
17/591	Budget information 21 items	1987-1988
17/592	Budget Office 23 items	1984-1989
17/593	Business, College of 22 items	1988-1989
17/594	Business accreditation 6 items	1988
17/595	C-D rom teleconference 4 items	1989
17/596	Catalog cases 23 items	1988-1991
17/597	Center for Information and Technology Transfer (CITT) 25 items	1988-1989
17/598-599	Centennial 59 items	1986-1988
17/600	Centennial Campaign 10 items	1988
17/601	Centennial Committee, Inter-library 20 items	1987-1989
17/602	Centennial Fundraising Committee 35 items	1988-1989
17/603	Centennial information 20 items	198-1989
17/604	Centennial proposals 2 items	1989
17/605	Correspondence 82 items	September-December 1987
18/606-609	Correspondence 308 items	January-December 1988
18/610-614	Correspondence 241 items	January-December 1989
18/615	Correspondence 49 items	January-June 1990
18/616	COSAL (Council of Spokane Area Libraries) 35 items	1988-1989
18/617-618	Deans' Council 56 items	1987-1989
18/619	Eastern Idaho Vocational Technical Center 6 items	1988
18/620	Engineering accreditation 5 items	1988
18/621	Gifts 73 items	1989
18/622	Grants and contracts 4 items	1986-1987
18/623	HEGIS survey 9 items	1985-1988
18/624	History 624 items	1986-1989
18/625-626	ICOSAL 66 items	1986-1989
18/627	INCOL/COSAL 38 items	1989
18/628	Lewis-Clark State College 6 items	1989
18/629	Library Affairs committee 73 items	1980-1988
18/630	Library Associates 80 items	1987-1988
18/631	Library council 71 items	1987-1989
18/632	Library Deans Conference 40 items	1985-1988
19/633	Library faculty memos 9 items	1987-1988
19/634	Library faculty minutes 38 items	1985-1988
19/635	Library Research Committee 1 item	1989
19/636	Media Services 16 items	1985-1989
19/637	National Cartographic Information Center 1 item	1988
19/638	Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges 2 items	1989
19/639	Performance Review 51 items	1986-1989
19/640	Physical Plant miscellaneous 20 items	1986-1989
19/641	President's Office 32 items	1985-1989
19/642	References 10 items	1988-1990
19/643	University Research Office 3 items	1987
19/644	WLN 26 items	1987-1988

Series IV. Eileen Hitchingham, 1987-1990Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
	A. Richard Beck	1949-1987
Box/Folder
19/645	Attitude survey 13 items	1972-1973
19/646-647	Classified staff actions 95 items	1972-1988
19/648	Committees: Disability Services Advisory 17 items	1978-1988
19/649	Committees: Disability, Library 42 items	1978-1981
19/650-651	Committees: Orientation 69 items	1976-1981
19/652	Library dean's conference 44 items	1982-1984
19/653	Engineering accreditation 15 items	1985-1986
19/654	Library faculty meeting 19 items	1975-1984
19/655	Memos re: exhibits and displays 86 items	1949-1976
19/656	Memos: 25th anniversary 3 items	1982
19/657	Memos, Miscellaneous 20 items	1960-1971
19/658	Memos, Miscellaneous 80 items	1985-1987
19/659	Personal 76 items	1957-1987
19/660	Research Council 22 items	1986-1987
19/661	Special Collections Advisory Committee 9 items	1976-1981
19/661-A	Special Collections 40 items	1967-1986
19/662	Visual handicap room 5 items	1982-1983
19/663	WAMI 3 items	1977-1981
	B. Stanley Shepard	1955-1984
Box/Folder
19/664	Baldwin Bindery 47 items	1966-1967
19/665	Bibliography 16 items	1965-1973
19/666	Bookmark, Rejected 14 items	1962-1965
19/667	Bookstore Advisory Committee 8 items	1977-1978
19/668	Budget allocation 121 items	1961-1974
19/669	Cataloging problems review committee 1 item	1981
19/670	Committee on multilith forms 116 items	1972
19/671	Conversion to Library of Congress system 26 items	1963-1965
19/672	Correspondence 37 items	1965-1968
19/673-675	Correspondence 205 items	1972-1984
19/676	Correspondence: Binding 80 items	1957-1967
19/677	Deacidification 7 items	1980-1984
20/678	Equipment requests 17 items	1966-1974
20/679	Federal grants 24 items	1966-1977
20/680	Gift forms 6 items	1974
20/681	Idaho Library Association 89 items	1963-1973
20/682	Bibliography Committee 13 items	1974-1982
20/683	Publications Committee 7 items	1983
20/684	Idaho newspaper microfilm project 75 items	1955-1974
20/685	Memos 30 items	1964-1978
20/686	Memos re: Acquisitions 18 items	1965-1978
20/687	Nez Perce 3 items	1963
20/688	PNLA Bibliography Committee 22 items	1968-1969
20/689	PNLA Publications Committee 60 items	1967-1974
20/690	Postharvest Institute for Perishables 3 items	1981
20/691	Private presses 5 items	1965-1982
20/692	Reclassification committee 17 items	1964-1965
20/693-699	ROTC/Officer Education Committee 230 items	1970-1974
20/700	Serials Committee 43 items	1972-1975
20/701	Student handbooks 2 items	undated
20/702	Taskforce on cooperation, WSU/UI 13 items	1981
20/703	Tattle tape 7 items	1974
20/704	Technical services projection 15 items	1968-1969

Series V. Assistant Directors, 1949-1987Return to Top

Container(s)	Description	Dates
Box/Folder
20/705-712	Library expenditures 8 items	1931-1958
21/713	Faculty handbook 2 items	ca. 1980-1987
21/714	Staff guide to library 2 items	ca. 1988
21/715-716	Library guides 50 items
21/717	Periodicals printout, microfiche 9 items	1978-1987
21/718	Bob Hook's notes for his History of the Library 9 items	1972
21/719-720	Microfilm of Library shelflist 44 items	1973
21/721-725	Supplement 5 items	1978
22/726-730	Scrapbooks 5 items	1950-1988

Series VI. Other Material, 1931-1988Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
23	731	State Documents 11 items : Correspondence, bulletins, various materials	1959-1975
23	732	1: Oral History 23 items : Pamphlets, newspaper, articles	1979-1980
23	733	Oral History 33 items : Pamphlets, articles, various materials	1979-1981
23	734	Manuals 7 items : Booklets, correspondence	1959-1975
23	735	District Headquarters 3 items : Correspondence, application form	1982-1983
23	736	Disaster Planning 11 items : Pamphlets, articles, meeting minutes	1978-1982
23	737	Basque 23 items : Books, correspondence, various materials	1963-1973
23	738	Basque 31 items : Books, correspondence, various materials	1963-1973
23	739	Student Co-Operations 7 items : Correspondence, workshop materials	1935-1940
23	740	Day-NW 3 items : Article, Idaho authors list	1948
23	741	Day-2 5 items : Book inventories	1959-1969
23	742	Miscellaneous 33 items : Books, pamphlets, correspondence, various materials	1971-1984
23	743	Scott 19 items : Correspondence, notes, various materials	1973-1976
23	744	Pound Collection 23 items : Correspondence, various materials	1973-1982
23	745	Archives 28 items : Pamphlets, correspondence, various materials	1959-1972
23	746	Borah 3 items : Various materials	1950-1966
23	747	Spez 27 items : Pamphlets, correspondence, articles	1942-1984
23	748	Special Collections 15 items : Pamphlets, correspondence, various materials	1969-1974
23	749	Ostermeyer Books 2 items : Book inventories	1969
23	750	Spec 34 items : Booklet, correspondence, articles, various materials	1949-1982
23	751	Spec 70 items : Boooklets, correspondence, various materials	1967-1981

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Academic libraries
University of Idaho

Form or Genre Terms

Records and correspondence.

Other Creators

Personal Names
- Beck, Richard J.
- Hitchingham, Eileen
- Owens, Warren
- Shepard, Stanley A.
- Sweet, Mary Belle, 1879-1964
- Zimmerman, Lee F. (Lee Franklin), 1902-
Corporate Names
- University of Idaho. Library--History--Sources
- University of Idaho. Library. Library Administration

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