Scope and Contents The Rod Library Dean's Office Collection consists of materials that provide an overview and insight into the library's functions, policies, procedures, events, and more, dating from the late 1950s to the present. Included are administrative records from groups reporting directly to the dean, such as the Library Administrators Council and its successor, the Dean's Advisory Group, as well as various handbooks detailing the library and its services for the campus community throughout its...

Scope and Contents This collection contains files used or generated by the Rod Library Dean’s Office, from 1966 to 2017. Content is either from internal library committees; campus-wide committees on which library faculty / staff served; materials from or created by other campus departments and offices; and files from state and government agencies. Types of materials include meeting minutes, reports, Rod Library internal documentation, ephemeral materials, and more. Please see the collection inventory for more...

Scope and Contents This is a wide-ranging artificial collection of materials relating to many aspects of library service dating back to the 1910s. It includes budgets, annual reports, policies, and personnel correspondence from the Duncan and McClelland offices, as well as a file related to recruiting librarians in the 1940s and notes used to write a brief library history during the 1940s. The bulk of the collection focuses on the Director's Office activities from the 1950s to...

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This collection, dating from c. 1980-2020, contains the records of Rod Library committees, task forces, and working groups. Files include meeting minutes, reports, brochures, agendas, and other administrative records. It documents the work of Rod Library (and its predecessors) and its staff throughout the library's history.

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This collection consists of photographs related to Rod Library, its activities, and its staff. Photographs are organized into photograph album sleeves and are numbered.

The collection's control file includes a key that identifies a majority of the photographs, using the number on the back of the images. Please ask SC&UA staff for assistance if you are interested in looking at the key and photographs together.

Scope and Contents In the summer of 1993, after several years of planning, construction began on the fourth floor addition to the Rod Library. Many other parts of the Library were renovated during the same period. Many staff and faculty members on campus and in the library assisted in the renovation and construction planning process. In the library, the Director of Library Services, Herbert Safford, formed a committee called the Building Expansion Committee. The papers collected by four of these...