Sources

Credits

Exhibit Curator

Cara Bertram, Visiting Archival Operations and Reference Specialist

A special thanks to Sharon Pietryka, Lydia Tang, and Denise Rayman, whose research into the Library War Service helped contribute to the content of this exhibit. And a thanks to Salvatore De Sando for authoring the bibliography on secondary sources on the Library War Service.

 

Further Research

Library War Service Bibliography by Salvatore De Sando

 

Exhibit Sources

American Library Association Archives

Caroline Webster Papers, 1917-21, Record Series 89/1/21, American Library Association Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Charles R. Greene Papers, 1918-1919, Record Series 89/1/24, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Circular Letters, 1917-1920, Record Series 89/1/55, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Conference Photographs, 1876-1976, Record Series 99/1/14, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Harriet C. Long Papers, 1918-1929, Record Series 89/1/27, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Library Services Photographs, 1921-1989, Record Series 99/1/18, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Personnel Department Files, 1917-1919, Record Series 89/1/79, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Photographs and Slides, 1917-1920, Record Series 89/1/13, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Published Proceedings, General Session and Membership Meeting Transcripts, 1876-1971, 1979, 1989, Record Series 5/1/2, American Library Association Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Oversize Poster File, 1910-2012, Record Series 12/3/12, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Reports and Publications, 1918-1920, 1929-1935, Record Series 89/1/60, American Library Association Archives, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Scrapbooks, 1917-1919, Record Series 89/1/19, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

War Libraries and War Library Service Bulletins, 1917-1919, Record Series 89/1/10, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

War Service Correspondence, 1917-1923, Record Series 89/1/5, American Library Association Archives at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

 

Books

Thomison, Dennis. A History of the American Library Association, 1876-1972. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1978.

Young, Arthur P. Books for Sammies: The American Library Association and World War I. Pittsburgh, PA: Beta Phi Mu, 1981.