Special Libraries Association, Philadelphia Chapter, records 1919-2005
MC.00.003

Summary Information

Repository: Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections
Title: Special Libraries Association. Philadelphia Chapter
ID: MC.00.003
Date [inclusive]: 1919-2005
Extent: 7.0 Cubic feet
Language: English
Abstract: The Philadelphia Chapter of the Special Libraries Association was founded in 1919 as a local library organization, the Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, to promote the collection, organization, and dissemination of information to executives, research directors, and employees of industrial firms. In 1933 the Council affiliated with the Special Libraries Association, an international professional association for librarians and information professionals working in non-traditional library settings. The collection consists of publications issued by the chapter as well as bylaws, minutes, reports, and other administrative records dating from its founding.

Preferred citation

Special Libraries Association, Philadelphia Chapter, Records, Drexel University Archives.

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

The Philadelphia Chapter of the Special Libraries Association began as a local library organization, the Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity, which was founded in 1919. It promoted the collection, organization, and dissemination of information to executives, research directors, and employees of industrial firms. It also developed the use of pertinent facts and technical materials in the operation of all types of business.

In 1933 the Council affiliated with the Special Libraries Association and became the Philadelphia Chapter. At that time the Special Libraries Association was an international organization of 5,000 special librarians. Its membership was composed of librarians and research workers who were actively engaged in the administration and interpretation of technical information in advertising and financial companies; in industrial firms manufacturing diverse products such as chemicals, electrical machinery, food, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, radios, steel, and textiles; and in governmental, educational, and social welfare institutions. The Council had active research groups within its membership such as the Science-Technology Group and the Social Science Group. These groups developed specific projects for the improvement of libraries and research organizations.

The chapter newsletter, the Bulletin, has been published since 1934 and is issued three to four times a year. It contains news of interest to special librarians. The chapter published the Directory of Libraries and Information Sources/Centers in Philadelphia and Vicinity from 1920-1999 in paper format. In 2004 the chapter unveiled its first online version of the directory. The chapter has operated an employment service since 1930 and currently posts job advertisements for special librarians in the Delaware Valley area. Regular chapter meetings are held from September to May in special library facilities or restaurants. The programs consist of panel discussions, featured speakers, demonstrations, or social occasions.

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Scope and content note

The collection provides a complete administrative history of the Philadelphia chapter of the Special Libraries Association from its founding in 1919 through the time it was donated to the Drexel University Archives in 2005. Records include chapter bylaws and procedural manuals; executive board meeting minutes; financial records; membership rosters; planning documents; and annual reports from various officers, committees, special interest groups. A large portion of the collection consists of the chapter’s publications, including the Bulletin, a chapter newsletter published four to six times a year beginning in 1933; a membership directory, issued sporadically since 1920; and a directory of libraries and information sources in Philadelphia and the surrounding region, published beginning in 1920 and updated every one to ten years.

The records indicate that the chapter conscientiously documented its history from its beginning. The collection was weeded in the 1940s, and again in the 1980s and 1990s, more extensively and in accordance with a records retention policy developed by the Special Libraries Association for its chapters. The collection was stored at the Free Library of Philadelphia from the chapter’s founding through the 1980s. In 1984, it was moved to Friends Hospital, where it stayed until 1994, when it was transferred to the library at QVC, Inc (librarians who worked for these organizations were officers of the Philadelphia Chapter of SLA at the time the records were moved there). The collection was transferred to the Drexel University Archives in 2005.

Original order in the collection has been preserved in the arrangement of series. The first series consists of general materials relating to the history and governance of the chapter and other miscellaneous records relevant to the chapter as a whole, some of which were added to this series by the archivist. The next three series consist of records created by individual chapter governing bodies and officers (executive board, president, secretary, and treasurer), committees, and special interest groups.

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Arrangement note

Arranged into 7 series:

General
Officers
Committees
Chapter Groups
Projects
Publications
Associated Organizations

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections 2006

W. W. Hagerty Library
3300 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.895.6706
archives@drexel.edu

Access restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Usage restrictions

Consult archivist regarding copyright restrictions.

Custodial History note

According to the records of the chapter's archives committee, the collection was kept from the founding of the chapter until the 1980s at the Free Library of Philadelphia. It was moved to Friends Hospital in 1984. Records indicate that the collection was weeded extensively over time in accordance with the national association's records retention policy.

Provenance

Transferred to the University Archives by chapter member Marjorie Smink, May 2005. Deed of gift on file in office of university archivist.

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

Minutes
Reports

Subject(s)

Newsletters
Special librarians
Special libraries -- United States -- Pennsylvania -- History

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Collection Inventory

Series I General 1920-2002 23 folders, 1 bound volume, and 1 35 mm reel

Records pertaining to the history and governance of the chapter, including the original bylaws dating from 1920 and their revisions through 2002, procedural manuals, a chronology of the Special Library Association’s activities from 1909 to 1964. Some additional general materials that were found with the collection, such as newspaper clippings, miscellaneous correspondence, and a filmstrip presentation about special library resources in the Delaware Valley, have been included by the archivist as subseries 9-12.

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Series II Officers 1922-2001 234 folders and 8 bound volumes

The minutes of the Executive Board’s meetings are included in this series, as are annual reports on the chapter’s activities from 1922 through 2001 (among the president’s records) and the chapter’s financial records (with the treasurer’s records). This series also contains lists of officers and committee chairmen.

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Series III Committees 1924-2005 63 folders

The records of the Strategic Planning Committee (subseries 29) include a strategic plan for the organization drafted in 2001. Also of interest are the records of the World War II Documents Committee (subseries 34), which speak to the role of libraries in national defense efforts during World War II.

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Series IV Chapter Groups 1940-1970 63 folders

The records of the chapter's special interest groups.

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Series V Projects 1919-2004 22 folders, 1 scrapbook

Records of conferences, professional development activities, retreats, and other activities that the chapter was involved in.

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Series VI Publications 1923-2004 28 folders, 37 bound volumes

Includes the Bulletin, the library directory, the membership directory, and other publications of the Philadelphia chapter, as well as several additional publications of SLA National and general publications. Researchers interested in using and citing particular issues of the Bulletin should note that its title has changed subtly over the years and should refer to the issue in hand for the proper citation format.

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Series VII Associated Organizations 1992 1 folder

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Series I General 1920-2002

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Constitution and Bylaws 1920

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.1

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Constitution and Bylaws—Adopted 1937, Amended 1944, 1947, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1961 1937-1961

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.2

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Bylaws—Amended 1966, 1968 1966-1968

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.3

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Bylaws—Amended 1972, Revised 1976, 1981, 1988, 1992, 2002 1972-2002

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.4

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Bylaws, Social Science Group of the Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity. 1968

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.5

Chapter bylaws and governing documents / Governing Documents 2004

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Mixed materials				1	1.1.6

Chapter history / Report of the Committee on Affiliation 1931

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.1

20090190021 1931

Chapter history / Original Seal-Special Libraries Council 1955

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.2

20090190022 1956

Chapter history / Chronology 1909-1964

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.3

Chapter history / Chapter Flyers [circa 1950?-circa 1997]

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.4

20090190023 n.d.

20090190024 n.d.

20090190025 n.d.

Chapter history / Original Seal - wood block samples [undated]

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.5

Chapter history / Deed of Gift - Philadelphia Chapter SLA Archives to Drexel University 2005

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.6

Chapter history / Background information on deed of gift 2005

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Mixed materials				1	1.2.7

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Chapter history / Notices of meetings [scrapbook] 1919-1947

OV1

20090190001 September 11, 1919

20090190002 September 30, 1919

20090190003 1919

20090190004 March 20, 1920

20090190005 January 28, 1921

20090190006 February 15, 1921

20090190007 March 31, 1921

20090190008 April 27, 1921

20090190009 October 21, 1922

20090190010 1928-1929

20090190011 April 5, 1935

20090190012 December 12, 1939

20090190013 February 2, 1940

20090190014 April 5, 1940

20090190015 April 4, 1941

20090190016 October 5, 1951

20090190017 November 2, 1951

20090190018 November 1951

20090190019 May 1930

Chapter recognition / SLA Building Recognition Award 1983

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Mixed materials				1	1.3.1

Chapter recognition / SLA Certificate of Recognition for Promoting Student Group Activities 1998

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Mixed materials				1	1.3.2

Chapter recognition / Founding Donor of the David R. Bender Endowment Fund for International Development 2001

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Mixed materials				1	1.3.3

Newspaper clippings 1920s

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Mixed materials				1	1.4.1

Newspaper clippings 1930s

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Mixed materials				1	1.4.2

Newspaper clippings 1950s

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Mixed materials				1	1.4.3

Newspaper clippings 1960s-1970s

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Mixed materials				1	1.4.4

Newspaper clippings [undated]

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Mixed materials				1	1.4.5

Obituaries / Reports 1933-2003

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Mixed materials				1	1.5.1

Photographs / Special Libraries Association joint meeting, Baltimore and Philadelphia chapters, Wilmington, Del. [scrapbook] n.d.

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.1

Photographs / PLA convention 1962

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.1a

20090190029 October 1962

Photographs / [Meeting at Bethlehem Steel Corporation] [1952]

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.2

20090190030 1952

Photographs / [Drexel University alumnae event?] [circa 1961]

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.2a

Photographs / 70th anniversary celebration, Corinthian Yacht Club 1989

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.3

Photographs / Library tour, PECO library 2/22/1990

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.4

20090190031 February 22, 1990

Photographs / Annual conference, Pittsburgh, PA 1990

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.5

20090190032 1990

Photographs / Annual banquet, St. David's Inn May 1992

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.6

20090190033 May 1992

20090190034 May 1992

Photographs / Chapter meeting, Hershey, PA [circa 1984?]

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.7

20090190035 circa 1984

Photographs / 75th anniversary celebration, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Spring 1994

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.8

20090190036 1994

20090190037 1994

20090190038 1994

20090190039 1994

20090190040 1994

20090190041 1994

20090190042 1994

20090190043 1994

20090190044 1994

20090190045 1994

20090190046 1994

20090190047 1994

20090190048 1994

Photographs / Annual banquet, Free Library of Philadelphia? May 1996

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.9

20090190048 1996

20090190049 1996

20090190050 1996

20090190051 1996

20090190052 1996

20090190053 1996

20090190054 1996

20090190055 1996

Photographs / Annual banquet, Academy of Natural Sciences May 1997

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.10

20090190056 1997

20090190057 1997

20090190058 1997

20090190059 1997

20090190060 1997

20090190061 1997

20090190062 1997

20090190063 1997

Photographs / SLA in Lights June 2000

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.11

20090190064 June 2000

Photographs / Annual banquet, The Willows, Radnor, PA May 2001

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Mixed materials				1	1.6.12

20090190065 May 2001

Photographs / Oversized photographs

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				OV1	1.6.13

Visit to Public Ledger Building [circa 1930?]

The Fortunates, Special Libraries Association, Time/Fortune Building, "A Century of Progress," Chicago [meeting at 1933 Chicago world's fair?] 1933

33rd annual banquet of the Special Libraries Association, Hotel Bond, Hartford, Conn. June 1941

[Annual banquet?, Stouffers, Philadelphia, PA] April 5, 1956

Photographs / Access copies of oversized photographs

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				OV1	1.6.14

Procedures manual, chapter / Special Libraries Association Philadelphia Chapter Procedures Manual 1993

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Mixed materials				1	1.7.1

Procedures manual, chapter / Draft SLA Philadelphia Chapter Policies and Procedures Handbook 1998

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Mixed materials				1	1.7.2

Procedures manual, chapter / Special Libraries Association Philadelphia Chapter Procedures Manual rev. 2003

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Mixed materials				1	1.7.3

Miscellaneous / Correspondence 1928-1945

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Mixed materials				1	1.8.1

Miscellaneous / Certificates 1950-1953

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Mixed materials				1	1.8.2

Miscellaneous / Chapter brochure [circa 1998]

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Mixed materials				1	1.8.3

Miscellaneous / Filmstrip [circa 1942?]

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Mixed materials				OV2	1.8.4

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Series II Officers 1922-2001

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity 1931-1960

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.1

20090190066 1940-1941

20090190067 1951-1952

20090190068 May 1931

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity 1960-1972

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.2

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity-Officers, Cumulative 1919-1952

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.3

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity-Officers and Executive Board, Cumulative 1919-1947

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.4

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Philadelphia Chapter-SLA 1973-1989

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.5

Rosters of officers and committee chairmen / Philadelphia Chapter-SLA 1991-2005

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Mixed materials				1	2.1.6

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1919-May 1927

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v1

Executive Board / Minutes and reports October 1927-May 1937

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v2

Executive Board / Minutes and reports October 1937-August 1947

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v3

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1947-January 1957

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v4

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1957-June 1967

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v5

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1967-May 1977

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v6

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1977-May 1987

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v7

Executive Board / Minutes and reports July 1987-May 1992

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.v8

Executive Board / Minutes and reports September 1992-December 1995

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.1

Executive Board / Minutes and reports February 1996-October 1997

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.2

Executive Board / Minutes and reports 1998-2001

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.3

Executive Board / Minutes and reports 2002-2005

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Mixed materials				1	2.2.4

President / Annual Reports 1922-1940

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.1

President / Annual Reports 1941-1959

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.2

President / Annual Reports 1961-1990

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.3

President / Annual Reports 1991-2001

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.4

President / Reports of Activities 1943-1945

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.5

President / Correspondence 1927-1980

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.6

President / Correspondence 1982-1999

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.7

President / Goals 2003-2004

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Mixed materials				1	2.3.8

Secretary / Annual Reports 1925-1982

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Mixed materials				1	2.4.1

Treasurer / Annual Financial Statements 1927-1946

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.1

Treasurer / Annual Financial Statements 1947-1956

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.2

Treasurer / Annual Financial Statements 1957-1966

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.3

Treasurer / Annual Financial Statements 1967-1980

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.4

Treasurer / Annual Financial Statements 1985-1997

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.5

Treasurer / Annual Reports 1979-1990

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.6

Treasurer / Budgets 1922-1959

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.7

Treasurer / Budgets 1960-2006

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.8

Treasurer / Auditing Committee Reports 1961-1981

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.9

Treasurer / Monthly Reports 1991-1993

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Mixed materials				1	2.5.10

Treasurer / Monthly Reports 1994-1996

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Mixed materials				2	2.5.11

Treasurer / Monthly Reports 1997-1999

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Mixed materials				2	2.5.12

Treasurer / Monthly Reports 2000-2006

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Mixed materials				2	2.5.13

Treasurer / Beverly M. Knower Fund 1978-1979

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Mixed materials				2	2.5.14

20090190075 January 30, 1979

Treasurer / Annual Audited Financial Reports 1998-2005

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Mixed materials				2	2.5.15

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Series III Committees 1924-2005

Advisory / Annual Reports 1945-1946

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Mixed materials				3	3.1.1

Archives / Annual Reports 1944-1993

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Mixed materials				3	3.2.1

Archives / Annual Reports 2004-2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.2.2

Awards / Reports 1951-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.3.1

Awards / Awards and Honors 1952-2002

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Mixed materials				3	3.3.2

20090190071_01 2002

Awards / Nominations 1956-1990

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Mixed materials				3	3.3.3

Awards / Knower Scholarship 1997-2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.3.4

Bulletin / Annual Reports 1934-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.4.1

Bylaws / Annual Reports 1992-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.5.1

Career guidance / Annual Reports 1987-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.6.1

Career guidance / Student Award 1987-1990

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Mixed materials				3	3.6.2

Career guidance / Services 1994-1996

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Mixed materials				3	3.6.3

Community cooperation / A Selected Bibliography of Adult Education Literature 1942-1943

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Mixed materials				3	3.7.1

Consultation / Annual Reports 1960-1986

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Mixed materials				3	3.8.1

Directory / Annual Reports 1924-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.1

Directory / Handbook 1987

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.2

Directory / Report of Sales 1930-1932

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.3

Directory / Questionnaires 1967

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.4

Directory / Instructions for Inputting Information rev. 1993

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.5

Directory / Manual rev. 1993

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Mixed materials				3	3.9.6

Diversity / Reports 1991-1993

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Mixed materials				3	3.10.1

Early committees / Summary Reports 1935-1942

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Mixed materials				3	3.11.1

Employment / Annual Reports 1930-2004

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Mixed materials				3	3.12.1

Employment / Interim Reports 1993-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.12.2

Employment / Policies and Procedures 2002

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Mixed materials				3	3.12.3

Futures / Report 1989

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Mixed materials				3	3.13.1

Futures / Talk 1989

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Mixed materials				3	3.13.2

Government relations / Annual Reports 1989-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.14.1

Helen Mar Rankin Fund / Annual Reports 1945-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.15.1

Helen Mar Rankin Fund / Minutes 1943-1946

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Mixed materials				3	3.15.2

Helen Mar Rankin Fund / Responsibilities

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Mixed materials				3	3.15.3

Hospitality / Annual Reports 1931-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.16.1

Library cooperation / Annual Reports 1979-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.17.1

Long-range planning / Annual Reports 1989-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.18.1

Long-range planning / Review of 1989 Futures Committee Report 1984

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Mixed materials				3	3.18.2

Long-range planning / Questionnaire 1995

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Mixed materials				3	3.18.3

Membership / Annual Reports 1923-2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.19.1

Membership directory / Reports 1991-1994

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Mixed materials				3	3.20.1

Membership directory / Miscellaneous 1991-1995

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Mixed materials				3	3.20.2

Networking / Annual Reports 1980-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.21.1

Nominating / Annual Reports 1924-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.22.1

Procedures / Reports 1993

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Mixed materials				3	3.23.1

Professional development / Annual Reports 1989-1990

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Mixed materials				3	3.24.1

Professional development / Workshops 2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.24.2

Program / Annual Reports 1926-2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.25.1

20090190069 May 7, 1945

20090190070 May 7, 1926

Program / Flyers 1991-2005

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Mixed materials				3	3.25.2

Program / Program Brochures 1934-1961

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Mixed materials				3	3.25.3

Promotion / Annual Reports [undated]

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Mixed materials				3	3.26.1

Publicity/public relations / Annual Reports 1927-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.27.1

Publicity/public relations / Report of Survey 1931

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Mixed materials				3	3.27.2

Publicity/public relations / Correspondence [undated]

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Mixed materials				3	3.27.2

Strategic planning / Strategic Plan 2001

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Mixed materials				3	3.28.1

Student liaison / Reports 1997-1998

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Mixed materials				3	3.29.1

Student liaison / Student Conference Award 1995-1997

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Mixed materials				3	3.29.2

Technology / Annual Reports 1990-1992

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Mixed materials				3	3.30.1

Technology / Programs 1994

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Mixed materials				3	3.30.2

Transportation / Annual Reports 1991-1993

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	3.31.1

Vendor relations / Annual Reports 1998

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	3.32.1

Visioning / Questionnaire [circa 1988]

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Mixed materials				3	3.32a.1

Website / Annual Reports 1998-2003

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Mixed materials				3	3.33.1

Website / Ads and Sponsorship Policy 1999

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Mixed materials				3	3.33.2

Website / SiteSense 2003

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Mixed materials				3	3.33.3

World War II / Reports 1940-1946

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Mixed materials				3	3.34.1

Ad hoc funds / Reports 2003-2004

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Mixed materials				3	3.35.1

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Series IV Chapter Groups 1940-1970

Science/technology group / Articles 1947

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.1

Science/technology group / Bylaws 1959

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.2

Science/technology group / Annual Reports 1940-1970

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.3

Science/technology group / Members 1946-1949

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.4

Science/technology group / Minutes 1944

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.5

Science/technology group / Officers 1952-1953

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Mixed materials				3	4.1.6

Science/technology group / Program/Project Committee 1949

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.1.7

Science/technology group / Publications 1947-1948

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.1.8

Social science group / Petition 1947

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.2.1

Social science group / Articles 1947

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Mixed materials				3	4.2.2

Social science group / Bylaws 1947

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.2.3

Social science group / Annual Reports 1947-1969

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Mixed materials				3	4.2.4

Social science group / Meetings 1957

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.2.5

Social science group / Rosters 1957-1958

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.2.6

University and college group / Annual Reports 1934-1951

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.3.1

University and college group / Minutes 1945-1947

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Mixed materials				3	4.3.2

University and college group / Reports [undated]

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				3	4.3.3

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Series V Projects 1919-2004

Association-wide projects / PREPS Commission [undated]

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.1.1

Celebrations / Special Libraries Council 25th Anniversary 1944

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.2.1

Celebrations / Philadelphia Chapter 75th Anniversary 1994

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.2.2

Celebrations / Philadelphia Chapter 85th Anniversary 2004

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.2.3

Community service / Information Central at Republican National Convention-Proposal 1999

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.3.1

Conferences / Joint Meetings of the Pennsylvania Library Club and the New Jersey Library Association 1935-1936

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.1

Conferences / SLA 35th Annual Meeting 1943

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.2

Conferences / SLA 36th Annual Meeting 1944

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.3

Conferences / SLA 50th Anniversary Convention 1959

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.4

Conferences / SLA 56th Convention 1965

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.5

Conferences / SLA Central Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh Chapters 1983

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.6

Conferences / SLA Winter Conference and Winter Education Conference 1985

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.7

Conferences / SLA 82nd Annual Conference 1991

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.8

Conferences / SLA Northeast Regional Conference 1993

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.9

Conferences / SLA 91st Annual Conference 2000

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.10

Conferences / Collaborations, Partnerships and Solutions: The QuintEssential Conference 2003

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.4.11

Box

Conferences / Special Libraries Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity Exhibit for American Society of Training Directors 7th Annual Conference March 15-17, 1951

OV2

Professional development / Technology Day 1995

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.5.1

Professional development / Technology Day 1997

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.5.2

Professional development / Technology Day 1999

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.5.3

Professional development / Going the Distance: Collaboration and Education in the Digital Age / presented by Drexel University IST Continuing Professional Education, PALINET, and Special Libraries Association Philadelphia Chapter 2000

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.5.4

Professional development / Mentoring Program 1997

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.5.5

Retreats / Executive Board 1998

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	5.6.1

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Series VI Publications 1923-2004

Bulletin / v.1-v.4:no.3 1934/35-1937/38

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v1

Bulletin / v.5-8 1938/39-1941/42

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v2

Bulletin / v.9-12 1942/43-1945/46

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v3

Bulletin / v.13-18 1946/47-1951/52

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v4

Bulletin / v.19-22 1952/53-1955/56

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v5

Bulletin / v.23-27 1956/57-1960/61

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v6

Bulletin / v.28-33 1961/62-1966/67

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v7

Bulletin / v.34-41 1967/68-1974/75

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v8

Bulletin / v.42-46 1975/76-1979/80

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v9

Bulletin / v.47-53 1980/81-1986/87

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v10

Bulletin / v.54-58 1987/88-1991/92

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v11

Bulletin / Duplicates, v.1-4 1934/35-1937/38

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.v12

Bulletin / Duplicates, v.5-11 1938/39-1944/45

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	6.1.v13

Bulletin / Duplicates, v.12-21 1945/46-1954/55

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	6.1.v14

Bulletin / Duplicates, v.7-19 1940/41-1951/52

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	6.1.v15

Bulletin / Duplicates, v.20-26 1952/53-1959/60

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	6.1.v16

Bulletin / v.59 1992/93

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.1

Bulletin / v.60 1993/94

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.2

Bulletin / v.61 1994/95

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.3

Bulletin / v.62 1995/96

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.4

Bulletin / v.63 1996/97

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.5

Bulletin / v.64 1997/98

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.6

Bulletin / v.65 1998/99

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.7

Bulletin / v.66 1999

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.8

Bulletin / v.66 2000/01

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.9

Bulletin / v.67 2001/02

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.10

Bulletin / v.68 2002/03

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.11

Bulletin / v.69 2003/04

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.12

Bulletin / v.70 2005

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				5	6.1.12

Library directory / Tentative Directory of Libraries and Sources of Information in Philadelphia and its Neighborhood 1920

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v1

Library directory / Libraries of Philadelphia and its Environs 1921

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v2

Library directory / Directory of the Libraries of Philadelphia and Vicinity 1923

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v3

Library directory / Directory of the Libraries of Philadelphia and Vicinity, Fourth ed. [undated]

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v4

Library directory / Library Directory, Fifth ed. 1937

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v5

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Informational Sources, Sixth ed. 1942

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v6

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Informational Sources, Seventh ed. 1947

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v7

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area, Eighth-Tenth eds. 1951-1960

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v8

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area, Eleventh-Thirteenth eds. 1964

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v9

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, Fourteenth ed. 1977

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v10

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Services in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 15th ed. 1980

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v11

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 16th ed. 1983

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v12

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 17th ed. 1985

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v13

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 18th ed. 1987

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v14

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 19th ed. 1989

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v15

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 20th ed. 1991

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v16

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 21st ed. 1993

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v17

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 22nd ed. 1995

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v18

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area: Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware, 24th ed. 1999

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.3.v19

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area, print copy of online ed., A-M 2004

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				7	7.3.v20

Library directory / Directory of Libraries and Information Sources in the Philadelphia area, print copy of online ed., N-Z 2004

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				7	7.3.v21

Other, SLA Philadelphia Chapter / Guide to Constitutional Information Resources in the Delaware Valley 1987

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.4.1

Other, SLA National / Special Libraries Association-Its First Fifty Years 1909-1959

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.5.1

Cowles, Thomas Other, SLA National / How to Run a Local Chapter / by Thomas Cowles, Past-President of Special Libraries Association of San Francisco [undated]

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.5.2

Other, SLA National / Putting Knowledge to Work: The Profession of the Special Librarian rev. 1960

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.5.3

Other, SLA National / The Value of the Company Library 1927

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.5.4

Other, non-SLA / Libraries of Philadelphia and Its Environs 1921

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.1

Other, non-SLA / The Newsletter no. 7-8 1942

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.2

Other, non-SLA / Philadelphia (serial) vol. 18, no. 1-3, vol. 27, no. 12 1931-1940

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.3

Other, non-SLA / The Philadelphia Purchasor (serial) vol. 6, no. 3-4, 9 1931

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.4

Other, non-SLA / Philadelphia Libraries and Their Holdings 1941

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.5

Other, non-SLA / Special Libraries 1931

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.6

Other, non-SLA / Workshops for Assembling Business Facts 1921

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				6	7.6.7

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Series VII Associated Organizations 1992 1 folder

SLA National / Board of Directors’ Actions 1992

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	7.1.1

SLA Drexel student chapter / Student chapter report 2006

				Box	Folder
Mixed materials				4	7.1.2

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Drexel University: Archives and Special Collections

Special Libraries Association, Philadelphia Chapter, records 1919-2005MC.00.003

Table of Contents

Summary Information

Preferred citation

ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Scope and content note

Arrangement note

Arranged into 7 series:

Administrative Information

Publication Information

Access restrictions

Usage restrictions

Custodial History note

Provenance

Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

Subject(s)

Collection Inventory

Series I General 1920-2002 23 folders, 1 bound volume, and 1 35 mm reel

Contents

Series II Officers 1922-2001 234 folders and 8 bound volumes

Contents

Series III Committees 1924-2005 63 folders

Contents

Series IV Chapter Groups 1940-1970 63 folders

Contents

Series V Projects 1919-2004 22 folders, 1 scrapbook

Contents

Series VI Publications 1923-2004 28 folders, 37 bound volumes

Contents

Series VII Associated Organizations 1992 1 folder

Series I General 1920-2002

Series II Officers 1922-2001

Series III Committees 1924-2005

Series IV Chapter Groups 1940-1970

Series V Projects 1919-2004

Series VI Publications 1923-2004

Series VII Associated Organizations 1992 1 folder

Special Libraries Association, Philadelphia Chapter, records 1919-2005
MC.00.003