Arranged with taste, preserved with neatness, and classified with order'

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Arranged with taste, preserved with neatness,
and classified with order.

• College Libraries, 1875-1925

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Library History Fun for the Whole Family

• 1875-1925
• Small college libraries not large institutions
• Particularly Lawrence

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Higher Education

• Higher education in transition classical model
  to a more scientific, vocational, democratic
  model.
• 1870-1910 The Gilded Age or the Age of the
  University
• 1876 and the Library World

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The Library Space

• Many colleges had only one building
• The library took up a corner somewhere

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The New College (1857)

• Home to classes, students, chapel, offices, and
  library
• Outgrowing successively a small room in the
  basement, a larger room on the second floor and
  at last the entire west end of the second floor
  except one recitation room.

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Library in Main Hall, pre-1905
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Ripon Ingram Hall
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Carnegie Library

• Plans for new building since 1860s
• Larger collections, changing research and study
  needs
• Carnegie turning from public to academic library
  funding
• January 1905

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Proposed Carnegie Library, 1905
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Carnegie Library, 1906
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Appleton Reading Room, 1908
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The Collection

• Started with donations the Book Subscription
• Clergy donations sermons, theological tracts,
  edifying literature
• Government documents
• Exchanges
• Endowment The Appleton Library Fund

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The Catalog

• Manuscript homemade classification systems
• Printed catalog -- sold for income
• Card catalog The Amherst System

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• Knox College Catalog

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Staffing the Library

• Prior to 1880s, part-time job for faculty
• Different needs called for different skills, full
  time
• Professionalization of librarianship
• Gender shift

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1874-1876

• Wilbur F. Yocum, science prof
• The Library is in good working order.
• Upwards of seven thousand volumes, but The
  exact number is not known and would be difficult
  to ascertain.

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1876-1882

• Wesley C. Sawyer, Professor of Rhetoric and
  German
• Trained student workers
• Regular inventories
• Library Lectures
• Let Freshmen into the Library
• Reclaimed the Library Fund
• Dewey and Card catalog
• Extracts concerning the library

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1882-1883

• Ellen F. Hunt, Instructor of Math and English
• Resolved that the Librarian understand that she
  is to carry out last years instructions until
  notified by the Library Com. to the contrary.
• Reading Room taken over by Faculty

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Zelia Anne Smith (1883-1924)

• LU Class of 1882
• Became Librarian in Fall 1883
• Received M.S. in 1885
• Died 1924 after nearly 41 years as Librarian

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Librarian Pay

• Part-time faculty
• Wesley Sawyer and Ellen Hunt
• The case of Zelia Anne Smith

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Zelias Library School

• No money for full time assistants
• we recommend that Miss Smith be allowed two
  assistants at a compensation not greater than the
  tuition of said students.
• we have had some assistance from three young
  lady students during the entire year, who spent
  two hours a day in the Library either studying
  Library Economy or in Practice Work, and who have
  received credit in hours for their work as for
  any other study.

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Library Finances, 1880s
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Access and Circulation

• Hours
• Circulation Rules and Procedures

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Hours

• 1855 Students of Lawrence University have
  access to the Library, once a week, either on
  Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays
• In 1877, 1 in 7 college libraries were not open
  daily.
• By 1893, only 1 in 40 libraries was not open
  daily, and more than half were open at least 30
  hrs/week
• By 1924, 57 hours/week (open 6 days/wk, 36
  weeks/year)

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Evening hours

• 1909 Lawrentian editorial
• 1911 some agitation upon the part of a small
  proportion of the students
• 1916 Editorials, survey of students, faculty,
  other schools
• Fall 1917 The library will be open from 700 to
  900 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
  evenings

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Library Rules, 1855

• Rule 1. No one can have more than one volume at a
  time, nor can he retain that, except by renewal,
  longer than two weeks without incurring a fine of
  from five to twelve cents, according to the size
  of the book
• Rule 5. Method of drawing Books. On a slip of
  paper write the title of the book desired, the
  letters and number, according to the Catalogue,
  together with the name of the person drawing, and
  hand it to the Librarian, or his assistant. It
  would be well to put down several, in the same
  way, so that if the 1st be not in, the 2nd, or if
  the second be not there, the third may be drawn,
  and so on.

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Library Regulations, 1869

• No book with a star prefixed to the number can be
  drawn except by special permission. The star is
  prefixed only to the main title.
• Preparatory students are allowed to draw one book
  at a time. College students two.
• 3. Books may be retained two weeks without
  renewal. If kept longer a fine of ten cents per
  week for each volume will be assessed.
• 4. All books must be brought to the Library for
  renewal.
• 5. Each student will be held responsible for all
  damages, or loss occurring while a book is
  charged to him or her.

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More Library Regulations, 1869

• 6. No student can draw a book while a fine or
  assessment remain unpaid.
• 7. No excuse will be received for the non-return
  of a book at the proper time, unless it be severe
  sickness.
• 8. Any student may draw a book for a chum, but
  for no other person.
• 9. All books must be returned to the Library on
  the last Friday of each term, unless the
  librarian appoints some other time.
• 10. Trustees, graduates of the University, and
  persons belonging to the learned professions, may
  draw books from the Library, subject to the
  preceding rules

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