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Elsie Andrews was the head librarian at Michigan State Normal College/Eastern Michigan University from 1932 to her retirement in 1952. Her papers include both personal and professional correspondence, papers and publications, photographs, and notes.

Abstract The Friends of the EMU Library collection, 1971-2011 primarily documents the second incarnation of the Friends of the Library at Eastern Michigan University. A "Friends" group was established in the 1970s and is documented in this collection with their publication AMICI, however, the bulk of collection materials date from 2003-2011 and documents the Friends of the EMU Library group that was formed in 2003 to fundraise...

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Genevieve M. Walton served as Library Director at Michigan State Normal College from 1892 to 1932, during which time she expanded the size of the collection, the staff, and oversaw the move to a separate library building. She was also influential in the field of library science and co-founded the Michigan Library Association, and served as its first woman president. The collection is dated approximately 1889 to 1999.

Abstract The Library Science Division of the College of Education records span from 1937-1983, with the bulk of the records dating from 1950-1974. Materials are comprised primarily of administrative files, correspondence, Library Club student organization records, photographs and publications. Materials were generated by the Library Science program founded in 1949, on the campus of Eastern Michigan College, known today as Eastern Michigan University, located in...

Abstract The Library Orientation Exchange or LOEX is a self-supporting, non-profit educational clearinghouse for library instruction and information literacy information. Founded in 1971 after the "First Annual Conference on Library Orientation" at Eastern Michigan University, LOEX has grown from a lending repository of library instruction materials and host of an annual conference on the subject to an internationally known organization that serves as a conduit for those working in the...

Abstract The Mabel E. (Walters) Glockzin class notes is a collection of notebooks from her time at the Michigan State Normal College in the spring of 1909 and notes from the Teacher Librarian Training Course attended in the summer of 1931 at the Central State Teachers College in Stevens Point, Wisconsin (now University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point). The books each contain handwritten class notes for a single course and is labeled with the course and instructor. The course...