Uris Library records

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 13-8-1786

Scope and content

Summaries of reference questions and staff responses, with sources of information used; reference statistics, staff training material, orientation material, announcements,"comments and suggestions," and reports. Also, night supervisors' notebooks, 1974-1985.

Scope and content

The collection includes speeches, correspondence, pamphlets, handbooks, materials from displays/exhibitions, architectural drawings of renovation projects, and comment and suggestion sheets, some with replies.

Scope and content

Also, memorabilia, including leaded glass scraps from the original skylights, a skewering needle and clippers for use with McBee cards, examples from the Uris Library bindery and printing press, and a red blazer worn by security guards at the main exit.

Scope and content

Uris Library Listening Rooms holdings guide, 1964.

Dates

1962-1985.

Creator

Cornell University. Library (Organization)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Uris Library, designed by William Henry Miller and located on the Arts Quad, was the first separate library building on campus. It was the main undergraduate library from 1961 to the 1990s.