Rice University Committee on the Library records
Scope and Contents
These records consist of the minutes, memoranda, correspondence and reports of the Committee on the Library.
Dates
- Creation: 1915 - 1992
Creator
- Rice University (Organization)
Access Restrictions
Access to this material is restricted.
Conditions Governing Access
Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
Biographical / Historical
Usually called the Library Committee, it is more formally the Standing Committee on the Library, also the Faculty Committee on the Library and the Faculty Library Committee, charged 'to exercise general supervision of the operation of the library and purchase of books for it' (1947) and 'to concern itself with all matters that may influence the effectiveness of Fondren Library and all functions carried out under the Library's auspices' (1986). At first composed only of faculty members, the lbrarian was added to the committee, then undergraduate, graduate and alumni representatives. Examples of the committee's purview: construction, space planning, choosing directors, alotting carrels, the budget, borrowing privileges, membership in professional organizations, fund-raising, self-study, and long-range planning.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract:
The minutes, memoranda, correspondence and reports of the Committee on the Library.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
President's Papers (Hackerman); Library Committee Chairmen (Higginbotham, Al van Helden, John Boles). Received June 26, 1990; 1995.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Rice University Committee on the Library records, 1915-1992
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lynda Crist and Lee Pecht
- Date
- 2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu