Friends of the Library Records 1938-1979
Archives 116

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Title
Friends of the Library Records
ID
Archives 116
Date [inclusive]
1938-1979
Extent
approximate 3500 items,  3.25 linear feet,  8 containers
Abstract
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.

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Organizational History:

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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Scope and Content

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

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2012

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

The Collection is open for research use.

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 Information

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

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Names and Subjects

Corporate Name(s)

Creator(s) :
  • Washington State University. Friends of the Library--Archives
  • Washington State University. Libraries. Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections.
  • Washington State University. Friends of the Library. Record--Archives
Subject(s) :
  • Washington State University. Friends of the Library--Records and correspondence
  • Washington State University. Libraries--Societies, etc.
  • Friends of the library--Washington (State)--Archival resources

Subject(s)

  • Washington (State)
  • Colleges and Universities

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Detailed Description of Collection

I Alphabetical Subject File  1938-1979 

box folder

Activities Summaries  1957-1959  3 items

1 1

Announcements  1968-1969  16 items

1 2

Annual Meetings  1944-1957  30 items

1 3

Aquisitions:  

box folder

Committee  1962  4 items

1 4

Projects Committee  1956-1962  12 items

1 5

Business Meetings:  

box folder

Minutes  1958-1965  30 items

1 6

Notices  1959-1966  50 items

1 7
box folder

Brochure Material  1938-1947  8 items

1 8

Colfax Public Library  n.d.  10 items

1 9

Committee for Nominations  1960-1966  25 items

1 10

Consititutions  1950-1963  14 items

1 11

Correspondence:  

box folder

Dibner  1971-1972  20 items

1 12

General  1944-1969  254 items

1 13-17

General  1977-1979  465 items

2 18-22

G. Donald Smith  1947-1950  150 items

2 23
box folder

Dinner and Social Hour Notices  1959-1965  25 items

2 24

Financial:  

box folder

Accounts  1958-1966  60 items

2 25

Budget Printouts  1971-1976, 1978-1979  500 items

3 26-27

Expenditure for Sending Food Abroad  1946-1948  50 items

4 28

Financial:  

box folder

Contributors  1938-1964  50 items

4 29

Policies  1962-1965  5 items

4 30
box folder

Fund Solicitation  1949  50 items

4 31

Gifts, Donations, Members  1945-1950  25 items

4 32

Insurance Policies  1948  3 items

4 33

Invoices 1959-1968 and Receipts, 1973-1975   250 items

4 34

Membership and Finance Committee  1958-1964  20 items

4 35

Payments  1956-1957  44 items

4 36-37

Purchase Requests/Status Records  1978-1979  25 items

4 38

Receipts  1976-1979  400 items

4 39-41

Receipts-Posted  1979  6 items

5 42

Special File  1946-1950  20 items

5 43
box folder

General File  1968-1974  20 items

5 44

Groups  1943-1950  5 items

5 45

Literature  1945-1950  12 items

5 46

Meetings:  

box folder

General  1979  1 item

5 47

Dick Scheuerman  1978  10 items

5 48

George H. Tweney  1978  50 items

5 49

Memorial Funds:  

box folder

Brewster  1962-1963  9 items

5 50

Dakin  1962-1963  7 items

5 51

Druffel  1962  1 item

5 52

Holland non-Pacific Northwest  n.d.  2 items

5 53

Jacobs  1962-1963  3 items

5 54

Kruegel  1945-1966  50 items

5 55

Memorial Fund Notice  n.d.  1 item

5 56

Potter  n.d.  3 items

5 57

White  1964  1 item

5 58

Minutes:  

box folder

Constitutions  1938-1948  50 items

5 59

Constitutions  1938-1962  280 items

5 60-61
box folder

Mailing List  1977-1979  30 items

6 62

Photographs  1973, 1979  4 items

6 63-64

The Record:  

box folder

Articles  1963, n.d.  33 items

6 66-66

Correspondence:  

box folder

General  1945-1957 

6 67

Julia Butler Hansen  1975  1 item

6 68

Robert D. Monroe  197  25 items

6 69

Virginal Paul  n.d.  3 items

6 70

Science Library  1976-1977  15 items

6 71

Wilder  1977  50 items

6 72

Robert A. Weinstein  1978  22 items

6 73

R. A. Weinstein and R. D. Monroe  1978  15 items

7 74
box folder

Form Letters, Notices, Announcements  1939-1946  50 items

7 75

General  1973, 1978  23 items

7 76-77

Photos  1972  2 items

7 78

Register Paste-up and Repros  1966-1971  6 items

7 79

Typescripts  1956  13 items

7 80
box folder

Speakers  1940-1967  45 items

7 81

Financial Ledger  1948  1 item

8 82

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