1879-1992; Bulk 1975-1990 (Accession 34229).

Extent:

23 cu. ft. (23 boxes)

Scope and content:

This collection contains the correspondence of the State Librarians, Henry R McIlwaine, Randolph W. Church, Donald R. Haynes, and Ella Gaines Yates, as well as, Assistant State Librarian, Wilmer Hall, Ray O. Hummel, and Nolan T. Yelich, and State Archivist Morgan P. Robinson, and Louis Manarin. Correspondents include but are not limited to; libraries, universities, patrons, state government, the American Library Association, the Virginia Library Association, the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Topics include; the audit of Lonesome Pine Regional Libraries, the establishment of the Virginia Center of the Book, the Colonial Records Project, Southeastern Library Network, State art collection, new library building plans, historical highway markers, Virginia Cavalcade and the Virginia State Library crisis. Included are building plans, surveys, newsletters, invitations, grants, calendars, reports, mass mailings and brochures.

Arrangement:

The guide has been arranged alphabetically by folder title.

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