Beloit College Library records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains many documents relating to the planning and construction of Beloit College's Colonel Robert H. Morse Library, and its renovations in the 1990s and 2000s. There are records and correspondence to and from the various library directors, especially H. Vail Deale and Dennis Dickenson, documentation about the library collections, facilities, statistics, annual departmental reports, fundraising, gifts, and publications created by the library staff. The bulk of the collection is from the 1950s and the 1990s.
Dates
- 1860s-ongoing
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research; however, certain materials are fragile and require Archives staff for handling, or use may be restricted altogether.
Biographical / Historical
Beloit College's current library is the Colonel Robert H. Morse Library and Richard Black Information Center, which was built in 1961 and underwent major renovations in 1991. It replaced the Carnegie Library, which became the location of the World Affairs Center. The Carnegie Library was built in 1905 with a $50,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie. The Morse Library houses the College Archives and Special Collections, as well as the book collections from the Cullister Center, dedicated to international studies, and the Kohler Science collection.
Extent
9 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection contains many documents relating to the planning and construction of Beloit College's Colonel Robert H. Morse Library, and its renovations in the 1990s and 2000s. There are records and correspondence to and from the various library directors, especially H. Vail Deale and Dennis Dickenson, documentation about the library collections, facilities, statistics, annual departmental reports, fundraising, gifts, and publications created by the library staff. The bulk of the collection is from the 1950s and the 1990s.
Physical Location
Shelved at 2/1/8, 2/2/1-3, 3/6/5
Processing Information
This collection has been compiled over the years through separate accessions of various sizes from various offices and individuals (particularly H. Vail Deale and Dennis Dickenson), none of which has any accompanying documentation. The original order of the documents is unknown. The arrangement order presented here has been imposed by the College Archives staff.
- Title
- Beloit College Library records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Michelle Tom
- Date
- September 2013
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Beloit College Archives and Special Collections, Beloit, WI Repository