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New in the ALA Archives
The ALA Archives, which the University of Illinois Archives maintains under contract for ALA, has made the general descriptive holdings Web-acces- sible at: http://www.library. uiuc.edu/ ahx/ ala.
The ALA Archives’ homepage provides a complete listing of all holdings. A simple search mecha- nism permits keyword searching of all scope and content notes for the archives. Finding aids, while not yet available on the Web, are available upon request.
Also available electronically will be releases of “New in the ALA Archives.” The most recent acquisition featured is the Columbia School of Library Service Library Verti- cal Files, 1832-1994 (record series 85/7/6), from which the accompanying photo origi- nates.
The files comprise over 118 cubic feet of library documents from the United States and around the world. They include photographs, staff manuals, publications, booklists, floor plans, annual reports, postcards, correspondence, exhibition catalogs, commemorative brochures, signs, forms, and catalog and library cards from public, school, academic, and special libraries. There is also a sub- stantial collection of library equipment and vendors’ cata- logs dating from the turn of the century; subject files on li- brary-related topics; a series of documents from library, publish- ing, and information science organizations in the United States and abroad; and documents from ALA annual and midwin- ter meetings and divisions of ALA.
A donkey serves as an early bookmobile for the American Institute in Anatolia.
A 120-page finding aid is available: ALA Archives, University of Illinois Archives, Room 19, Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801; (217) 333-0798; illiarch@uiuc.edu.—Elizabeth R. Cardman, assistant university archivist, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ecardman@ uiuc.edu.
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