Fonds consists of these series: I Administration (1951-1984). Includes organization charts, 1959-1970; policy statements, 1951- 1965; administrators' meetings (Library Council, Division Heads/Management Advisory Committee/Managerial Group), 1960-1984; planning and standards, 1960-1965, including a 10-year plan for 1965-1975; budget, 1947-1975. II Annual report (1944-1979). Includes system libraries; D.E. Cameron's reports for 1925-1927. III Buildings, equipment, furnishings (1941-1977). Includes a plan for a proposed library, 1931; physical planning and consultants, 1945-1963; blueprints and drawings, 1948-1963, including drawings for the Rutherford reading room chandeliers; space planning, 1941-1975; specifications for shelving and furniture, 1948-1975. IV Collections (1945-1976). Books and periodicals; teaching departments' needs and appropriations; flood damage lists; special funds and gifts, including the Woods, Wallace, Arkin and Alberta Folklore Project collections, Slavic and Japanese books; art and museum collections, including gifts of Emma Read Newton and Frederick Sherrer; class gifts, the O.C. Edwards Indian Collection; and Poundmaker's tipi. V Departments (1946-1977). Includes Reference, Circulation (loans policy, fines), Periodicals; the Archives and the University Map Collection; Technical Services (automation, Bindery, Book Orders); Cataloguing (manuals, Canadian history classification scheme, and the main catalogue on microfilm, 1972). VI Librarian to the University (1950-1982). Includes correspondence with the President and Keyes D. Metcalf, consultant; speeches. VII Library Committee (1950-1976). This standing committee of the General Faculties Council provided liaison between the staff and students and the Library administration; coordinated book and periodical budgets with departments' requests; and advised on policies, facilities and services. VIII Photographs (1908-1980). The Library collected photographs relating to the University's history, portraits of the teaching staff and views of the campus (ca. 650 images). IX Professional societies and activities (1959- 1970). Includes briefs; Alberta Society of Librarians; Edmonton Society of Professional Librarians; Canadian Library Association; seminar on Prairie library problems, 1965. X Public relations (1947-1979). Includes ceremonies for opening the Rutherford and Cameron libraries; special book presentations; scrapbooks and photographs of displays; notes for student instruction sessions. XI Publications (1954-1984). Includes Information Bulletin; newsletters; guides to the libraries; bibliographies; History of the Library by Bruce Peel, 1979. XII Services (1946-1971). Includes inter-library loans and photocopying. XIII Staff ([1938]-1986). Includes job descriptions for all staff, 1960- 1966; student assistants and interns; Association of Professional Librarians of the University of Alberta (formerly University Professional Librarians Group); individual staff files; salaries and benefits, 1945-1968. XIV Staff training (1947-1968). Includes procedures manuals; in-service and short courses; establishment of the School of Library Science, 1947-1972. XV Statistics and Surveys 1951-1979. Includes in-house and consultants' reports. XVI System libraries: Calgary Branch (1948-1965). Committees; budgets; photographs; building files. XVII System libraries: H.T. Coutts (Education) Library 1946-1983. Includes Library Committee; Curriculum Laboratory; , faculty relations; policy. XVIII System libraries: Humanities and Social Sciences Library (1951-1983). Includes Music section, 1951-1971; move to Rutherford Library, 1951. XIX System libraries: John W. Scott Health Sciences Library (1914-1971). Formerly Medical Library; includes accession register, 1914-1919; Medical Library and Dental Library Committee, 1923-1970; briefs; gifts; fundraising; bibliographies; Reading Room, 1955-1964. XX System libraries: John Weir Memorial Law Library (1952-1971). XXI System libraries: Science and Technology Library (1950-1971). Includes General Sciences, Applied Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Mathematics branch libraries; Physics, Psychology, Engineering, and Agriculture Reading Rooms. XXII System libraries: Bruce Peel Special Collections Library (1950- 1971). Includes Committee on Rare Books, 1962-1967; policy on, and lists of, theses; News from the Rare Book Room (Periodicals). XXIII University activities (1947-1968). Includes Varsity Guest Weekend; Freshman Orientation Week, summer session; cultural societies. XXIV University committees (1959-1971). Includes Standing Academic and Facilities Planning Committees; Universities Commission; Canadian Centennial Committee, 1966.
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