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Historical subject files, 1810s-2022, bulk 1968-1972
182.23 linear feetHistorical photograph collection, 1858-
180.81 Linear FeetLibrary and School of Library Service Reports, undated Box 12
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- Library and School of Library Service Reports, undated
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(8 x 10 negatives)
Trust Administration Deeds and Gifts Records, 1755-1989
2.5 linear feetThis collection consists of deeds from various land transactions and gifts of property from donors to Columbia University.
Avery Architectural Library and School of Architecture--Fine Arts Endowment Fund, 1913 Box 1, Folder 11
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- Avery Architectural Library and School of Architecture--Fine Arts Endowment Fund, 1913
Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile Records, 1914-1939
35000 itemsThis collection includes Papers of the Committee for the Education of Russian Youth in Exile, and its predecessors, Refugees in Russia and the Committee for the Rescue and Education of Russian Children, and Papers of the Committee' Director, Thomas Whittemore. The collection, which consists of correspondence, files on students supported by the Committee, financial records, photographs, manuscripts, documents, and printed materials, with the bulk dates 1914-1936.
Students of the Institut Chimique in the laboratories, library, and school yard. Among others are:
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- Students of the Institut Chimique in the laboratories, library, and school yard. Among others are:
Columbia College papers, 1703-1964, bulk 1754-1920
67.08 linear feetColumbia College Trustees, List of expenditures for College Library and School of Miens Library, 1864 October -1865 June, New York, 1865, 1864, 1865 Box 32
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- Columbia College Trustees, List of expenditures for College Library and School of Miens Library
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(date from docket; ms., 1p.)
Morningside Area Alliance records, 1947-1992
149 linear feetPublishers' Library Promotion Group records, 1961-1971
3 boxesCorrespondence, reports, and financial records of the association.
Animal Advocates Oral History Collection, 1999-2004
14 volumes (Transcripts)Margaret "Peggy" Moreland Stathos, 2000 July 12 Box stathos binder, box 7
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- Library Project, which brought animals rights publications to Massachusetts libraries and school libraries
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In this one session interview, Margaret Moreland Stathos discusses her involvement with the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS), the institution's history, and her views on activism, particularly surround laboratory animals. She begins the interview discussing her childhood experiences with animals, her learning of vivisection and opposition to it following the disappearance of a neighborhood cat in 1957, graduate work as a pianist in Germany in 1958, and early influences. Figures mentioned over the course of the interview include Albert Schweitzer and Rachel Carson. She discusses the NEAVS presidencies of George Farnum, Judge Robert Ford, and Cleveland Amory, and the activities of NEAVS from the 1960s-1990s. Also addressed is her work in the NEAVS educational department, writing the history of NEAVS, and reflections on the state of animal rights activism at the time of the interview.
Robert D. Leigh papers, 1947-1955
3 linear feetCorrespondence, documents, memoranda, reports, and clippings of book reviews. The correspondence is chiefly with public, university, and special libraries, and with foundations and other organizations. There is correspondence with several leading American librarians, such as Carleton Joeckel, Joseph Wheeler, and Charles C. Williamson. About one half of the collection contains the field reports, interview reports, questionnaires, vocational interest blanks, and related materials used for one Inquiry study by Oliver Garceau"Library Government and Politics", which was published by the Columbia University Press in 1949 as THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS. The manuscript of a report for the Russell Sage Foundation"The Nature of Public Communication", 1955, was added.
Series II: Library Government and Politics Study
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- Authority of the Library; III. The Librarian as Chief Executive; IV. Library and Community; V. Library and
Schools; VI. Key Processes in Library Government; VII. The Library and the Profession; VIII. The Library - Abstract Or Scope
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Includes Field Reports (Transcripts), Reports of Interviews (Transcripts), Forms and Questionnaires (Pierce Study), Forms and Questionnaires (Personnel Study). Reports on 60 representative United States Public Libraries. Includes general information in Field Reports and specific opinions and impressions by involved persons in these libraries in Reports of Interviews. Geared toward library government and politics. Field Reports and Reports of Interviews divided into sections: I. The Institutions; II. Governing Authority of the Library; III. The Librarian as Chief Executive; IV. Library and Community; V. Library and Schools; VI. Key Processes in Library Government; VII. The Library and the Profession; VIII. The Library and the State Library Agency; IX. Working Relations with Other Library Services; X. Special Types of Library Service; XI. Aspirations. Each interview includes list of persons interviewed and by whom. Includes some statistical appendixes. Forms and questionnaires relating to time distribution, technical processes and library services, work measurement (blank sheets), statistical tables, etc. Pierce Study. Forms and questionnaires including drafts of questions for interviews, Leigh letter re questionnaire, Guilford-Martin Inventory, Vocational Interest Blank for Women, Checklist for libraries of Books Held, etc.