Verner W. Clapp papers, 1901-1994 (bulk 1945-1972).
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Mixed materialsDescription: 16,000 items; 52 containers; 18.4 linear feetSubject(s): - Besterman, Theodore, 1904-1976 -- Correspondence
- Caldwell, Elias Boudinot, 1776-1825
- Clapp, Dorothy Devereaux Ladd, 1901-1983 -- Correspondence
- Clift, David H. (David Horace), 1907-1973 -- Correspondence
- Dalton, Jack, 1908-2000 -- Correspondence
- Dix, William S. -- Correspondence
- Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981 -- Correspondence
- Feinberg, Charles E., 1899-1988 -- Correspondence
- Hungerford, Edward Buell, 1900- -- Correspondence
- Jordan, Robert Thayer -- Correspondence
- Lacy, Dan, 1914-2001 -- Correspondence
- McCarthy, Stephen A. (Stephen Anthony), 1908-1990 -- Correspondence
- MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982 -- Correspondence
- Mearns, David C. (David Chambers), 1899-1981 -- Correspondence
- Mumford, L. Quincy (Lawrence Quincy), 1903-1982 -- Correspondence
- Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008 -- Correspondence
- Saito, Tsuyoshi, 1913-1977 -- Correspondence
- Sakai, Yasushi, 1913- -- Correspondence
- Shepard, Odell, 1884-1967 -- Correspondence
- Skipper, James E., (James Everett), 1920-2005 -- Correspondence
- Vann, Sarah K., 1916-2012 -- Correspondence
- Wagman, Frederick Herbert, 1912-1994 -- Correspondence
- Warncke, Ruth -- Correspondence
- Wheeler, Joseph Lewis, 1884-1970 -- Correspondence
- Williams, Gordon R. (Gordon Roland), 1914- -- Correspondence
- Clapp family
- Clapp family -- Correspondence
- American Documentation Institute
- American Library Association
- Association of Research Libraries
- Council of National Library Associations
- Council on Library Resources
- Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan (Japan)
- Library of Congress
- Library of Congress -- Officials and employees
- Special Libraries Association
- Supreme Court Building (Washington, D.C.)
- Unesco
- United Nations Library (New York, N.Y.)
- United States National Committee for FID
- United Nations Conference on International Organization (1945 : San Francisco, Calif.)
- Abstracting and indexing services
- Bibliographical services
- Cataloging
- Classification
- Copyright
- Courthouses -- Washington (D.C.)
- Depository libraries
- Documentation
- Information services
- Information storage and retrieval systems
- Librarians
- Libraries
- Libraries -- Automation
- Libraries -- Societies, etc
- Libraries -- Japan
- Libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
- Libraries -- United States
- Libraries -- Washington (D.C.)
- Library materials -- Conservation and restoration
- Library science
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Libraries
- Japan -- Description and travel
- Librarians
Open to research.
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.
Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Librarian. Assistant Chief Librarian and Acting Librarian of Congress.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Collection related to the Library of Congress Archives.
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