35/1/19 Guide to the Special Collections Acquisitions File Special Collections Acquisitions File

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Guide to the Special Collections Acquisitions File 1905/1996 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Special Collections Acquisitions File 1905-96, 2010 35/1/19 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. University Librarian's Office 9.00 English University of Illinois Archives
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Additional information may be found at https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/3501019.pdf

Access Terms

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

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Archives Audubon Folios Library Acquisitions Library Resources Manuscripts Rare Books Shakespeare, William University Research Board
Administrative Information Accruals:

9/10/96

Conditions Governing Access:

This series includes inventories of rare books and other manuscript and special collections as well as financial information regarding gifts and purchases. Access will be granted to researchers only with the prior written permission of the Special Collections Division Coordinator. If the Division Coordinator is the University Archivist, access will be granted only with the written permission of both the Division Coordinator and the Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library. In requesting access to this record series, researchers should provide a written description of their research project and a list of the file folders to which they desire access.

Arrangement of Materials:

By source of file and alphabetically by the name of collection thereunder

Scope and Contents

Special Collections Acquisitions File of University Librarians Robert Downs, Lucien White, and Hugh Atkinson; Acquisitions Librarians Helen Welch and Marilyn Satterlee; Director of Collection Development, Carl Deal; and the Assistant Director for Special Collections, Acquisitions, and Preservation, Norman Brown, includes correspondence, inventory lists, appraisals, descriptions of collections offered for donation or purchase, accession agreements, clippings, and recommendations from faculty members concerning potential and actual acquisitions of collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, monographs, serials, and maps purchased by or donated to the library. This series also includes requests from the University Librarian to the research Board for the purchase of special collections materials (1943-78) and the annual reports of purchases from Research Board Funds (1954-71). Correspondents also include Maynard Brichford, Ernest Ingold, Robert Oram, John Hoffmann, and George Hendrick. RESTRICTED