Scope and arrangement
Records consist of report of Citizen's Advisory Committee, Webster Sub-Committee, Field Study of Library Use, Reference Department Highlights, and other administrative records.
Rutherford D. Rogers Records, The New York Public Library Archives, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.
Administrative files from the office of Rutherford D. Rogers, Chief of the Reference Department of The New York Public Library from 1955-1957.
Rutherford David Rogers was Chief of Personnel at The New York Public Library in 1954-1955 and Chief of the Reference Department (later known as the Research Libraries) from 1955 to 1957. He later worked for Deputy Librarian at the Library of Congress (1957-1964), Director of Libraries at Stanford University from (1964-1969) and University Librarian at Yale University (1969-1985).
Records consist of report of Citizen's Advisory Committee, Webster Sub-Committee, Field Study of Library Use, Reference Department Highlights, and other administrative records.
Compiled by Robert Sink; machine-readable finding aid created by Jim Moske.
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