| 1 | Author: | University of Virginia.
Library | Add | | Title: | Annual report on historical collections University of Virginia Library | | | Published: | 2006 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Modern English collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | TWENTY YEARS AGO when the first of these annual reports
was issued, Harry Clemons, then in his fourth year as
Librarian of the University, had recently set aside the southeast
wing of Mr. Jefferson's Rotunda as a "Virginia Room," dedicated
to the housing of and to research in Virginia manuscripts and related
materials. Aided and abetted by the late John Calvin Metcalf,
Dean of the Department of Graduate Studies, he was beginning
his planning and campaigning for the Alderman Library building,
which was to open its doors in 1938. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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