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Archives 116
Friends of the Library Records,
1938-1979
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Archives 116
Friends of the Library Records,
1938-1979
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. The combined record group was processed by Barbara Kovarik Gahl in May and June of 1983.
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.
ARRANGEMENT AND 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.
CONTAINER LIST
Box Folder Description Items
SERIES I: Alphabetical Subject File, 1938-1979
1 1 Activities Summaries, 1957-1959 3
2 Announcements, 1968-1969 16
3 Annual Meetings, 1944-1957 30
Aquisitions:
4 Committee, 1962 4
5 Projects Committee, 1956-1962 12
Business Meetings:
6 Minutes, 1958-1965 30
7 Notices, 1959-1966 50
8 Brochure Material, 1938-1947 8
9 Colfax Public Library, n.d. 10
10 Committee for Nominations, 1960-1966 25
11 Consititutions, 1950-1963 14
Correspondence:
12 Dibner, 1971-1972 20
13-17 General, 1944-1969 254
2 18-22 General, 1977-1979 465
23 G. Donald Smith, 1947-1950 150
24 Dinner and Social Hour Notices, 1959-1965 25
Financial:
25 Accounts, 1958-1966 60
Box Folder Description Items
3 26-27 Budget Printouts, 1971-1976, 1978-1979 500
4 28 Expenditure for Sending Food Abroad, 50
1946-1948
Financial:
29 Contributors, 1938-1964 50
30 Policies, 1962-1965 5
31 Fund Solicitation, 1949 50
32 Gifts, Donations, Members, 1945-1950 25
33 Insurance Policies, 1948 3
34 Invoices, 1959-1968 and Receipts, 1973-1975 250
35 Membership and Finance Committee, 1958-1964 20
36-37 Payments, 1956-1957 44
38 Purchase Requests/Status Records, 1978-1979 25
39-41 Receipts, 1976-1979 400
5 42 Receipts-Posted, 1979 6
43 Special File, 1946-1950 20
44 General File, 1968-1974 20
45 Groups, 1943-1950 5
46 Literature, 1945-1950 12
Meetings:
47 General, 1979 1
48 Dick Scheuerman, 1978 10
49 George H. Tweney, 1978 50
Memorial Funds:
50 Brewster, 1962-1963 9
51 Dakin, 1962-1963 7
52 Druffel, 1962 1
53 Holland non-Pacific Northwest, n.d. 2
54 Jacobs, 1962-1963 3
55 Kruegel, 1945-1966 50
56 Memorial Fund Notice, n.d. 1
57 Potter, n.d. 3
58 White, 1964 1
Minutes:
59 Constitutions, 1938-1948 50
60-61 1938-1962 280
Box Folder Description Items
6 62 Mailing List, 1977-1979 30
63-64 Photographs, 1973, 1979 4
The Record:
66-66 Articles, 1963, n.d. 33
Correspondence:
67 General, 1945-1957
68 Julia Butler Hansen, 1975 1
69 Robert D. Monroe, 197 25
70 Virginal Paul, n.d. 3
71 Science Library, 1976-1977 15
72 Wilder, 1977 50
73 Robert A. Weinstein, 1978 22
7 74 R. A. Weinstein and R. D. Monroe, 1978 15
75 Form Letters, Notices, Announcements, 50
1939-1946
76-77 General, 1973, 1978 23
78 Photos, 1972 2
79 Register Paste-up and Repros, 1966-1971 6
80 Typescripts, 1956 13
81 Speakers, 1940-1967 45
8 82 Financial Ledger, 1948 1