Caption

Library classroom. Library Classroom in Drexel Institute. Class of '99.

Overview

The Florence Bayard Kane collection is comprised of the notes and assignments she worked on while a student in the Drexel Institute Library Science Program during the years 1896 through 1898.

Overview

The collection consists of six notebooks compiled by Genevieve A. Shryock while she was studying library science at the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry, from approximately 1910-1913. It also contains three small black and white photographs of possibly Genevieve and her Drexel classmates from approximately 1910-1911.

Overview

Dr. Guy Garrison served from 1968 to 1987 as dean of the Graduate School of Library Science at Drexel University (renamed the School of Library and Information Studies in 1984). This collection contains Dr. Garrison's professional papers from 1964-1996. The majority of the collection is correspondence, travel itineraries, and brochures and programs from the various library and information science conferences and workshops he attended around the globe.

Overview

This collection consists of seven scrapbooks that document the curriculum and operations of Drexel's Library School between the years of 1891-1914.

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series is arranged into subseries by department: art, domestic science and arts, engineering and science, library school, mechanic arts, secretarial, physical education, and unidentified. The bulk of the photos are from 1903-1904 and 1914-1915. Domestic science is the predominant subject. Folders are arranged chronologically within subseries; folders marked with prefix OV are located in box 2.

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series is arranged into subseries by department: art, domestic science and arts, engineering and science, library school, mechanic arts, secretarial, physical education, and unidentified. The bulk of the photos are from 1903-1904 and 1914-1915. Domestic science is the predominant subject. Folders are arranged chronologically within subseries; folders marked with prefix OV are located in box 2.

Scope and Contents note From the Series:

This series is arranged into subseries by department: art, domestic science and arts, engineering and science, library school, mechanic arts, secretarial, physical education, and unidentified. The bulk of the photos are from 1903-1904 and 1914-1915. Domestic science is the predominant subject. Folders are arranged chronologically within subseries; folders marked with prefix OV are located in box 2.

Overview This collection contains the correspondence of Martha Coplin Leister relating to the Pennsylvania Library Club from 1920 to 1935, as well as meeting programs from 1901 to 1938, and the club’s constitution. She was the longtime Secretary of the Pennsylvania Library Club and a Drexel alumna. The Pennsylvania Library Club was organized in 1893. Although it was expected that the club would become a state organization, its influence was limited to the city of Philadelphia and surrounding areas....