Scope and arrangement
Records include notes and printed matter, autograph book and notes, Alumni Association materials and Circulars of Information.
Library School Records, The New York Public Library Archives, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Administrative records of a Library School operated at The New York Public Library from 1911-1926.
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.
Records include notes and printed matter, autograph book and notes, Alumni Association materials and Circulars of Information.
Compiled by Robert Sink; machine-readable finding aid created by Jim Moske.
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