Friends of the Library Records

Friends of the Library Records, 1938-1979

Overview of the Collection

Title: Friends of the Library Records
Dates: 1938-1979 (inclusive)
19381979
Quantity: approximate 3500 items, ( 3.25 linear feet), ( 8 containers)
Collection Number: Archives 116
Summary: Includes correspondence, minutes of meetings, committee records, constitutions, budget printouts, invoices, receipts, memorial fund materials; Also includes information about The Record (correspondence, articles, typescripts, form letters, announcements, photos) and a speakers file.
Repository: Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions: The Collection is open for research use.
Sponsor: Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Friends of the Library (FOL) was established in 1938 by WSU's president, E. O. Holland, and William Wirt Foote, head librarian. The FOL's purpose is to assist in securing for the university important library resources in the arts, sciences, and technologies which will contribute to the institution's prograns of teaching, research and state service. Anyone interested in these causes can become a member of the organization. The organization functions as a channel for financial support of the library's acquisitions program, as a mechanism to encourage donation of materials to the library, and as a public relations service for the Washington State University Libraries.

Since the mid 1950s, the library's administrative support for the FOL has been located in Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. These records often document the overlap between the two offices.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The Friends of the Library records have been arranged in a single series, Alphabetical Subject File, 1938-1979. The series is composed of correspondence, minutes of meetings, committee records, constitutions, budget printouts, invoices, receipts, memorial fund materials, papers concerning us. The Record (correspondence, articles, typescripts, form letters, announce ments, photos) and a speakers file.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

The Friends of the Library records were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in July 1981 by the Friends of the Library and the Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections unit of Holland Library (UA 81-21). The group was then combined with another set of Friends of the Library records, formerly WSU 106.

Processing Note

The combined record group was processed by Barbara Kovarik Gahl in May and June of 1983.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

I: Alphabetical Subject File , 1938-1979Return to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Activities Summaries 3 items	1957-1959
1	2	Announcements 16 items	1968-1969
1	3	Annual Meetings 30 items	1944-1957
		Aquisitions:
Box	Folder
1	4	Committee 4 items	1962
1	5	Projects Committee 12 items	1956-1962
		Business Meetings:
Box	Folder
1	6	Minutes 30 items	1958-1965
1	7	Notices 50 items	1959-1966
Box	Folder
1	8	Brochure Material 8 items	1938-1947
1	9	Colfax Public Library 10 items	n.d.
1	10	Committee for Nominations 25 items	1960-1966
1	11	Consititutions 14 items	1950-1963
		Correspondence:
Box	Folder
1	12	Dibner 20 items	1971-1972
1	13-17	General 254 items	1944-1969
2	18-22	General 465 items	1977-1979
2	23	G. Donald Smith 150 items	1947-1950
Box	Folder
2	24	Dinner and Social Hour Notices 25 items	1959-1965
		Financial:
Box	Folder
2	25	Accounts 60 items	1958-1966
3	26-27	Budget Printouts 500 items	1971-1976, 1978-1979
4	28	Expenditure for Sending Food Abroad 50 items	1946-1948
		Financial:
Box	Folder
4	29	Contributors 50 items	1938-1964
4	30	Policies 5 items	1962-1965
Box	Folder
4	31	Fund Solicitation 50 items	1949
4	32	Gifts, Donations, Members 25 items	1945-1950
4	33	Insurance Policies 3 items	1948
4	34	Invoices 1959-1968 and Receipts, 1973-1975 250 items
4	35	Membership and Finance Committee 20 items	1958-1964
4	36-37	Payments 44 items	1956-1957
4	38	Purchase Requests/Status Records 25 items	1978-1979
4	39-41	Receipts 400 items	1976-1979
5	42	Receipts-Posted 6 items	1979
5	43	Special File 20 items	1946-1950
Box	Folder
5	44	General File 20 items	1968-1974
5	45	Groups 5 items	1943-1950
5	46	Literature 12 items	1945-1950
		Meetings:
Box	Folder
5	47	General 1 item	1979
5	48	Dick Scheuerman 10 items	1978
5	49	George H. Tweney 50 items	1978
		Memorial Funds:
Box	Folder
5	50	Brewster 9 items	1962-1963
5	51	Dakin 7 items	1962-1963
5	52	Druffel 1 item	1962
5	53	Holland non-Pacific Northwest 2 items	n.d.
5	54	Jacobs 3 items	1962-1963
5	55	Kruegel 50 items	1945-1966
5	56	Memorial Fund Notice 1 item	n.d.
5	57	Potter 3 items	n.d.
5	58	White 1 item	1964
		Minutes:
Box	Folder
5	59	Constitutions 50 items	1938-1948
5	60-61	Constitutions 280 items	1938-1962
Box	Folder
6	62	Mailing List 30 items	1977-1979
6	63-64	Photographs 4 items	1973, 1979
		The Record:
Box	Folder
6	66-66	Articles 33 items	1963, n.d.
		Correspondence:
Box	Folder
6	67	General	1945-1957
6	68	Julia Butler Hansen 1 item	1975
6	69	Robert D. Monroe 25 items	197
6	70	Virginal Paul 3 items	n.d.
6	71	Science Library 15 items	1976-1977
6	72	Wilder 50 items	1977
6	73	Robert A. Weinstein 22 items	1978
7	74	R. A. Weinstein and R. D. Monroe 15 items	1978
Box	Folder
7	75	Form Letters, Notices, Announcements 50 items	1939-1946
7	76-77	General 23 items	1973, 1978
7	78	Photos 2 items	1972
7	79	Register Paste-up and Repros 6 items	1966-1971
7	80	Typescripts 13 items	1956
Box	Folder
7	81	Speakers 45 items	1940-1967
8	82	Financial Ledger 1 item	1948

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Corporate Names

Friends of the library--Washington (State)--Archival resources
Washington State University. Friends of the Library--Archives (creator)
Washington State University. Friends of the Library--Records and correspondence
Washington State University. Libraries--Societies, etc.

Other Creators

Corporate Names
- Washington State University. Friends of the Library. Record--Archives (creator)
- Washington State University. Libraries. Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. (creator)

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