Uris Library records, 1962-1985.
Collection Number: 13-8-1786
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Uris Library records, 1962-1985.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
13-8-1786
Abstract:
The collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, handbooks, materials
from displays/exhibitions, architectural drawings of renovation projects, and comment
and suggestion sheets, some with replies.
Creator:
Cornell University. Library
Quanitities:
4.3 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Cornell University Library, Uris Library records #13-8-1786. Division of Rare and
Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Uris Library, designed by William Henry Miller and located on the Arts Quad, was the
first separate library building on campus. It was the main undergraduate library from
1961 to the 1990s.
Summaries of reference questions and staff responses, with sources of information
used; reference statistics, staff training material, orientation material, announcements,"comments
and suggestions," and reports. Also, night supervisors' notebooks, 1974-1985.
The collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, handbooks, materials
from displays/exhibitions, architectural drawings of renovation projects, and comment
and suggestion sheets, some with replies.
Also, memorabilia, including leaded glass scraps from the original skylights, a skewering
needle and clippers for use with McBee cards, examples from the Uris Library bindery
and printing press, and a red blazer worn by security guards at the main exit.
Uris Library Listening Rooms holdings guide, 1964.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Libraries.
Subjects:
Academic libraries -- Reference services.
Reference services (Libraries)
Libraries -- New York (State) -- Ithaca.
Form and Genre Terms:
Blazers.
Speeches.
Architectural drawings (visual works),.
CONTAINER LIST
Container
|
Description
|
Date
|
|
Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Speeches
|
1959-1989 |
Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Uris undergraduate library
|
1961-1963 |
Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
|
1961-1977 |
Box 1 | Folder 4 |
New addition
|
1982-1986 |
Box 1 | Folder 5-6 |
Newspaper clippings
|
1898-1982 |
Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Pamphlets/handbooks
|
1962-1977 |
Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Uris Library (The University Library)
|
1891-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Display (various materials
|
1991 |
Box 1 | Folder 10-12 |
Uris Library I, II, III [display]
|
1996 |
Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Architect's drawings
|
1961-1980 |
Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Photos
|
195--1991 |
Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Myer's Bindery
|
1971-1983 |
Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Memoranda on need for undergraduate library
|
1949-1959 |
Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Kirby Room
|
1965-1991 |
Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Case 9: The Paper Chase
|
1996 |
Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Case 8: Passages
|
[1996] |
Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Miscellaneous exhibit items
|
19-- |
Box 1 | Folder 21 |
The Best of C & S
|
1982 |
Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Suggestions notebook
|
1970-1971 |
Box 1 | Folder 23-24 |
Comments and replies
|
1985 |
Box 2 |
Uris Library history display
|
19-- |