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Collection Data
- Description
- Administrative records of a Library School operated at The New York Public Library from 1911-1926.
- Names
- New York Public Library. Library School (Creator)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1911 - 1932
- Library locations
- New York Public Library Archives
- Shelf locator: MssArc 5066
- Topics
- Libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
- Library education
- Library schools
- New York Public Library. Library School
- Plummer, Mary Wright, 1856-1916
- Genres
- autograph albums
- Documents
- Notes
- Content: 1.3 linear feet (1 box, 1 oversize folder)
- Biographical/historical: A library school was opened at The New York Public Library in October of 1911. Edwin Anderson, Assistant Director of The Library from 1908 to 1913, persuaded Andrew Carnegie to finance the establishment of the school, which was designed primarily to provide trained assistants for the staff of The Library. Mary W. Plummer, founder and director of the Pratt Insitute Library School, was appointed Principal. The school closed in 1926 due to a lack of financial support.
- Content: Records include notes and printed matter, autograph book and notes, Alumni Association materials and Circulars of Information.
- Content: Processing Information: Compiled by Robert Sink; machine-readable finding aid created by Jim Moske.
- Type of Resource
- Text
- Identifiers
- Other local Identifier: MssArc 5066
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15817035
- MSS Unit ID: 5066
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 26bf49a0-016c-013b-e719-0242ac110003
