Contents
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Search Terms
Research Notes
Library Ephemera
Unpublished and Published Reports
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Amherst College Library History Collection, 1850-1987 (bulk 1850-1965)
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by Anne Ostendarp.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
© 2003
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Creator:
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Amherst College. Library. |
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Title:
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Amherst College Library History Collection |
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Dates:
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1850-1987 |
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Dates:
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1850-1965 |
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Abstract:
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The Library History Collection, 1850-1965, contains materials compiled by former Librarian Newton F. McKeon. Mr. McKeon assembled these materials to write a history of the Amherst College Library. This history, however, was never written.
The Library History Collection includes McKeon's notes, copies of library reports and records, ephemera dating from the 19th century, and published and unpublished articles and reports about the Amherst College Library. Most of the material focuses on the late 1800's through the early 1910's. Reports describing the spatial needs of the library dating from 1937, 1959, and 1961 are also included.
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Extent:
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1 archives box, 1 half archives box(0.75 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
The Library History Collection, 1850-1965, contains materials compiled by former Librarian Newton F. McKeon. Mr. McKeon assembled these materials to write a history of the Amherst College Library. This history, however, was never written.
The Library History Collection includes McKeon's notes, copies of library reports and records, ephemera dating from the 19th century, and published and unpublished articles and reports about the Amherst College Library. Most of the material focuses on the late 1800's through the early 1910's. Reports describing the spatial needs of the library dating from 1937, 1959, and 1961 are also included.
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N.F. McKeon notes
n.d.
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N.F. McKeon compiled material re: library handbook
n.d.
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N.F. McKeon notes: inventory of librarian's annual reports
1949
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Holdings statistics, 1834-1925
n.d.
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Librarians and staff
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Bookmark
n.d.
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Forms and stationery samples
n.d.
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Condensed rules of Amherst College Library (pamphlet)
n.d.
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General rules of the Library of Amherst College (pamphlet)
n.d.
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Library for Amherst College (circular)
1850 Sep
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Library for Amherst College (circular)
1851 Mar
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Alumni Library fund (circular)
1856 Sep
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Regulations of Amherst College Library
[1872?]
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Amherst College Library (pamphlet)
[1876]
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Vocal and promenade concert...for the benefit of the Amherst Library (program)
1877 Jun 1
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Printing samples and forms
c.1880-1882
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General rules of the College Library
[1885?]
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Regulations of Amherst College Library
1897 Feb
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Portraits and busts in Amherst College Library
1908
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Amherst College Library receipt book
1917-1925
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Dedication of the Converse Memorial Library
1917 Nov 8
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The Robert Frost Library dedication (Friends of Amherst College Library Frost keepsake)
1965 Oct 24
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Unpublished and Published Reports
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Statement about the library ... Lucius M. Boltwood (t.s.)
post 1863
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Original idea of May 8, 1873 submitted to the Library Committee of Amherst College. Library classification system. Melvil Dewey. (t.s.)
1873
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Report of Assistant Librarian [Dewey] for the trustees, 1873-74. (t.s.)
1874
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The first application of the decimal system of classification, Walter Stanley Biscoe, 1876-80. Reminiscences by Ernest Cushing Richardson '80.
1929
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Report on the urgent needs of the library by Henry deForest Smith.
1937 Mar
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A report on the library of Amherst College. James W. Hyde '39.
1940 May
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Survey of spatial needs. Keyes D. Metcalf.
1959
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The problem of the Amherst College Library. Newton F. McKeon.
1961 Apr
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The American College Society Library and the College Library. Catharine Penniman Storie. College and Research Libraries (reprint).
1945 Jun
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Amherst College Library background and outlook. Ruben Weltsch.
1945 Aug
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Portrait of W.I. Fletcher. Amherst Graduate Quarterly.
1917 Nov
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William Isaac Fletcher, biography. Frederick W. Faxon. Bulletin of biography and dramatic index.
1917 Oct
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The Emergence of the Amherst College Library, 1821-1911. Donald B. Engley. Doctoral dissertation.
1947
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Library tract, vol. 1-8. "The library and culture." W.I. Fletcher. "The library's educational mission." Melvil Dewey.
1902-1905
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Newsclippings
c.1853-1969
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This is Amherst (pages with images of Converse Library rooms)
c.1963
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"Amherst College Report on the Urgent Needs of the Library," Committee Report
1987
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"A Survey of the Amherst College Library," Hugh Pritchard
1950
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