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Friends of the Library Records, 1938-1979

Overview of the Collection

Title
Friends of the Library Records
Dates
1938-1979 (inclusive)
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.
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Historical Note

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.

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Content Description

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.

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Administrative Information

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.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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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)

Finding aid prepared by Barbara Kovarik Gahl
2012

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