Florida State University Libraries Records, 1909-1969, bulk 1923-1951
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Florida State University Libraries
- Abstract:
- Handwritten accession records kept by the Florida State University Libraries and its predecessor, the Florida State College for Women Library.
- Extent:
- 6.60 Linear Feet
- 4.29 Gigabytes
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
[Name of Item], [Date of Item], Florida State University Libraries Accession Books, Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-030
Background
- Scope and content:
The handwritten accession books record all commercially-published books, government documents, and journal titles of publications acquired by the FSCW and FSU Library collection from 1909-1951. Each accession book includes the date and number of accession, author, title, place, publisher, date of printing and publication, volume, source (with name of donor or bookseller), and cost. The books are arranged in accession number order, and follow a chronological pattern. Gaps exist between 1909-1918 and 1918-1923. The two handwritten circulation record books indicate borrowing statistics for faculty and students, by subject area. Each volume covers ten years (1949-1959; 1959-1969). The collection not only documents the growth of the FSU Library's collection; it is also significant to researchers studying the types of materials purchased by a major university library during the first half of the 20th Century.
Includes video recordings of 2012 Faculty Luncheon Series.
- Biographical / historical:
During the early years when Florida State University was the Florida Female College (1905-1909), former Dean of Arts and Sciences Dr. William G. Dodd, in his unpublished manuscript, "Florida State College for Women: Notes on the Formative Years," noted that the early library was located in one of the classrooms in the main building whose floor space was "completely taken up by two tables and a dozen or so chairs." In 1907, Florida Female College President Albert Murphree made a request to the Florida Board of Control and the Florida Legislature for a separate library building, but it was not until 1923 that the West wing of the new library was completed in Dodd Hall. In 1929, construction was finally completed on the entire building.
- Acquisition information:
Source of accession books and circulation records cannot be determined.
Faculty Luncheon Series recordings acquired from Devin Soper, FSU Libraries Office of Digital Research Scholarship, on May 24, 2023.
- Processing information:
Processed by Burt Altman in October 2007.
- Physical facet:
- 4 files
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
This collection is open to all researchers.
This collection is in an offsite storage location. Please contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu with requests for access or for more information.
- Terms of access:
To request permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from the archives, please contact Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. Researchers must obtain separate permission from the copyright holders of material held within University Archives collections for which the institution does not hold copyright.
- Preferred citation:
[Name of Item], [Date of Item], Florida State University Libraries Accession Books, Heritage & University Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2007-030