Amherst College Library History Collection, 1850-1987 (bulk 1850-1965)
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Amherst College Library History Collection
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Amherst College. Library.
Scope and Contents of the Collection 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McKeon's notes, copies of library reports and records, ephemera dating from the 19th century, and published and unpublished articles and reports about the Amherst College Library.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.
Academic libraries--Massachusetts--Amherst--History--Sources.
lcsh
McKeon, Newton Felch, 1904-1990.
lcnaf
Fletcher, Robert Stillman, 1874-1953.
Amherst College. Library--History--Sources.
Amherst College. Class of 1897. Fletcher.
Amherst College. Class of 1926. McKeon.
Research Notes
N.F. McKeon notes n.d.
N.F. McKeon compiled material re: library handbook n.d.
N.F. McKeon notes: inventory of librarian's annual reports 1949
[Research notes?] n.d.
Budget c. 1928-1939
Citations n.d.
Holdings statistics, 1834-1925 n.d.
Librarians and staff n.d.
Library Ephemera
Bookmark n.d.
Forms and stationery samples n.d.
Condensed rules of Amherst College Library (pamphlet) n.d.
General rules of the Library of Amherst College (pamphlet) n.d.
Library for Amherst College (circular) 1850 Sep
Library for Amherst College (circular) 1851 Mar
Alumni Library fund (circular) 1856 Sep
Regulations of Amherst College Library [1872?]
Amherst College Library (pamphlet) [1876]
Vocal and promenade concert...for the benefit of the Amherst Library (program) 1877 Jun 1
Printing samples and forms c.1880-1882
General rules of the College Library [1885?]
Regulations of Amherst College Library 1897 Feb
Portraits and busts in Amherst College Library 1908
Amherst College Library receipt book 1917-1925
Dedication of the Converse Memorial Library 1917 Nov 8
The Robert Frost Library dedication (Friends of Amherst College Library Frost keepsake) 1965 Oct 24
Unpublished and Published Reports
Statement about the library ... Lucius M. Boltwood (t.s.) post 1863
Original idea of May 8, 1873 submitted to the Library Committee of Amherst College. Library classification system. Melvil Dewey. (t.s.) 1873
Report of Assistant Librarian [Dewey] for the trustees, 1873-74. (t.s.) 1874
The first application of the decimal system of classification, Walter Stanley Biscoe, 1876-80. Reminiscences by Ernest Cushing Richardson '80. 1929
Report on the urgent needs of the library by Henry deForest Smith. 1937 Mar
A report on the library of Amherst College. James W. Hyde '39. 1940 May
Survey of spatial needs. Keyes D. Metcalf. 1959
The problem of the Amherst College Library. Newton F. McKeon. 1961 Apr
The American College Society Library and the College Library. Catharine Penniman Storie. College and Research Libraries (reprint). 1945 Jun
Amherst College Library background and outlook. Ruben Weltsch. 1945 Aug
Portrait of W.I. Fletcher. Amherst Graduate Quarterly. 1917 Nov
William Isaac Fletcher, biography. Frederick W. Faxon. Bulletin of biography and dramatic index. 1917 Oct
The Emergence of the Amherst College Library, 1821-1911. Donald B. Engley. Doctoral dissertation. 1947
Library tract, vol. 1-8. "The library and culture." W.I. Fletcher. "The library's educational mission." Melvil Dewey. 1902-1905
Newsclippings c.1853-1969
This is Amherst (pages with images of Converse Library rooms) c.1963
"Amherst College Report on the Urgent Needs of the Library," Committee Report 1987
"A Survey of the Amherst College Library," Hugh Pritchard 1950