TY  - GEN
AU  - Clapp,Verner W.
TI  - Verner W. Clapp papers,
KW  - Besterman, Theodore,
KW  - Caldwell, Elias Boudinot,
KW  - Clapp, Dorothy Devereaux Ladd,
KW  - Clift, David H.
KW  - Dalton, Jack,
KW  - Dix, William S.
KW  - Evans, Luther Harris,
KW  - Feinberg, Charles E.,
KW  - Hungerford, Edward Buell,
KW  - Jordan, Robert Thayer
KW  - Lacy, Dan,
KW  - McCarthy, Stephen A.
KW  - MacLeish, Archibald,
KW  - Mearns, David C.
KW  - Mumford, L. Quincy
KW  - Orne, Jerrold,
KW  - Saito, Tsuyoshi,
KW  - Sakai, Yasushi,
KW  - Shepard, Odell,
KW  - Skipper, James E.,
KW  - Vann, Sarah K.,
KW  - Wagman, Frederick Herbert,
KW  - Warncke, Ruth
KW  - Wheeler, Joseph Lewis,
KW  - Williams, Gordon R.
KW  - Clapp family.
KW  - Clapp family
KW  - American Documentation Institute
KW  - American Library Association
KW  - Association of Research Libraries
KW  - Council of National Library Associations
KW  - Council on Library Resources
KW  - Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
KW  - Library of Congress
KW  - Officials and employees
KW  - Special Libraries Association
KW  - Unesco
KW  - United Nations Library (New York, N.Y.)
KW  - United States National Committee for FID
KW  - United Nations Conference on International Organization
KW  - (1945
KW  - San Francisco, Calif.)
KW  - Supreme Court Building (Washington, D.C.)
KW  - Abstracting and indexing services
KW  - Bibliographical services
KW  - Cataloging
KW  - Classification
KW  - Copyright
KW  - Courthouses
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Depository libraries
KW  - Documentation
KW  - Information services
KW  - Information storage and retrieval systems
KW  - Librarians
KW  - Libraries
KW  - Automation
KW  - Societies, etc
KW  - Japan
KW  - New York (State)
KW  - New York
KW  - United States
KW  - Library materials
KW  - Conservation and restoration
KW  - Library science
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, speeches, writings, notes, subject files, printed matter, and other papers relating to Clapp's service as a librarian, including his years at the Library of Congress; duties as chief librarian to the United Nations Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, Calif., 1945; work for Unesco on various international library matters; role in the establishment of the Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan, also known as the National Diet Library of Japan; and work for the Council on Library Resources.  Subjects include librarianship and library science; abstracting, bibliographic, and indexing services; automation in libraries; bibliographic control; cataloging; classification; copyright law; depository libraries; documentation; information retrieval; storage methods; preservation of library materials; the effects of World War II on libraries; Elias Boudinot Caldwell; the Supreme Court building, Washington, D.C.; and United Nations Library, New York, N.Y.  Organizations represented include the American Documentation Institute, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, Council of National Library Associations, Special Libraries Association, and the United States National Committee for FID.  Includes material pertaining to Clapp's personal and family life and his travels, especially to Japan.  Family correspondents include Clapp's wife, Dorothy Devereaux Ladd Clapp; Correspondents include Theodore Besterman, David H. Clift, Jack Dalton, William S. Dix, Luther Harris Evans, Charles E. Feinberg, Edward B. Hungerford, Robert Thayer Jordan, Dan Lacy, Stephen A. McCarthy, Archibald MacLeish, David C. Mearns, L. Quincy Mumford, Jerrold Orne, Tsuyoshi Saito, Yasushi Sakai, Odell Shepard, James E. Skipper, Sarah K. Vann, Frederick Herbert Wagman, Ruth Warncke, Joseph Lewis Wheeler, and Gordon R. Williams
ER  -