Records of the Law Library (RG 32/106-81)

Extent:

9.6 Linear Feet 24 boxes

Scope and content:

RG 106-81 contains the office files of the University of Virginia Law Library from 1942 to 1981. Most of the material, however, pertains to the period 1955-1976, and gives details of the library's expansion and relocation in 1974. The great majority of the files relate to Frances Farmer's tenure as Law Librarian and include her personal memoranda and correspondence.

These records contain correspondence, invoices, order blanks, memoranda, minutes of committee meetings, publicity, brochures, gift registers, building plans, faculty publications and correspondence, advertisements,, University circulars, conference proceedings, and other material pertaining to the operating procedures of the Law Library.

Acquisition information:

These records were transferred to the archives in 1981.

Arrangement:

The papers were placed in the Archives in essentially the order in which they were kept in the Law Librarian's office. As a chronicle of the growth and development of the Law Library, these records are quite valuable.

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