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Correspondence, minutes, financial records, and bulletins of the Association.

Elevation and plan.

Typescript drafts of the association's constitution, ballots for various elections as well as for the ratification of the constitution, memoranda, reports, correspondence, and minutes of the association meetings and the executive board's meetings.

The correspondence and working papers of the "Survey of Resources of the Columbia University Libraries" (unpublished typescript), 1941. This guide to the Libraries' resources was prepared to supply data for Robert B. Downs' RESOURCES OF NEW YORK CITY LIBRARIES (Chicago, A.L.A., 1942). The resulting typescript is kept at the Reference desk in Butler Library.

A large collection of portraits of librarians, consisting mainly of photographs, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles.

The Card Catalog is a negative 16mm. motion picture film of the Dictionary Card Catalog of Columbia University Libraries ca. 1938-1948. The film was meant to be a record copy of the catalog to be uded for reproducing it if it were ever mutilated or destroyed. Unfortunately, the quality of the film is so poor that it is unusable for reproduction. The films have been retained as a sample of the mid-twentieth century holdings of a large American academic library.

This collection includes Giorgio Cavaglieri's preliminary studies, working drawings, presentation drawings, and specifications, circa 1962-1965, for his renovation of the Jefferson Market Courthouse into a library. Also, prints of drawings, 1876, by Vaux and Withers for the original building, and drawings, circa 1918-1940, for alterations.

Includes correspondence, reports and annual reports, minutes, studies, surveys, publications, and history of the Missionary Research Library.