35/3/50 Guide to the Black Alumni and Ex-Students Project File Black Alumni and Ex-Students Project File

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Guide to the Black Alumni and Ex-Students Project File 1967/1973 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Black Alumni and Ex-Students Project File 1967-1973 35/3/50 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Departmental Library Services 1.20 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical Note:

Public services of the Campus Library are units that deal directly with the library user. Their chief functions are service and selection of material. Those responsibilities include circulation, reference, bibliographic aids, and inter-library loans. A major part of public services are the operations of the various departmental or branch libraries, which in 1975 totaled thirty-seven. Most of them are organized according to the departmental structure of the University, though many are combined with related fields of interest. Included with the libraries are those with specialized tasks, such as the undergraduate library, rare book room, archives, newspaper library, and the Illinois historical survey.1 The branch and departmental libraries have grown and contracted over the years, sometimes combining with or dividing from collections devoted to similar disciplines.2 Health sciences, the archives, music, map, and geology libraries are among the branches that perform processing activities, although technical services handles material for most libraries.3 The term public service departments has existed since 1944, and the office of assistant university librarian for public service originated in 1945.4 Public service units developed from the reference and loan departments, which were two of the five main divisions of the Campus Library in 1916.5

1. Graduate Course Catalog, 1974/76, pp. 9-11; Library Annual Report, 1974-75, pp. 5-6.

2. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25; Board of Trustees Transactions, 37th Report, June 15, 1934, pp. 355-56.

3. Library Annual Report, 1974-75, p. 8-9.

4. Board of Trustees Transactions, 43rd Report, June 27, 1946, and appendix, June 19, 1944, p. 794.

5. Board of Trustees Transactions, 28th Report, June 30, 1916, p. 25.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Alumni Minority Enrollment
Administrative Information Accruals:

3/70

Arrangement of Materials:

Alphabetically by name

Scope and Contents

Black Alumni and Ex-Students Project File containing data sheets for black students showing name, birthdate, deathdate, birthplace, deathplace, dates of attendance at the university, student activities, degrees received, marriage date and location, names of spouse and children, employment and residence record including dates, location and position, honors, awards and recognitions and the source where the information was found. The data were compiled by the University Archives staff with financial assistance from the Afro-American Culture Center.The series includes a separate file of 3X5 cards showing the names of black students prepared by Eddie Russell (1967-68).