1956: The nature and development of the library collection

Allerton Park Institute Proceedings (no. 3, 1956); Edited by Donald E. Strout and F. Thelma Eaton

The Institute on the Nature and Development of the Library Collection, held November 11-14, 1956, at Robert Allerton Park, a University-owned country estate near Monticello, Illinois, was the third of a series of institutes offered for professional librarians of Illinois and other states by the University of Illinois Library School in cooperation with the Division of University Extension.

The complete text of the Institute is available here as well as the individual papers. The papers included here are:

• The Library Collection at Mid- Twentieth Century - Robert B. Downs
• The Adult Book Collection - Jerome Cushman
• Books for Children and Young People - Elizabeth Nesbitt
• Paperback Books--Boon or Bane? - Donald E. Strout
• Periodicals and Documents - Helen Lightfoot
• Non-Book Materials, Libraries and Librarians - Harold Goldstein
• The Role of the State Library in the Development of Public Library Collections - Harold Brigham
• The Role of the Wholesaler - David Busse
• Censorship and Selection: The Librarian as a Trustee of the Public's Right to Know - Paul Bixler
• Summary - Harold Lancour
  

The Proceedings of the Allerton Park Institute have been digitized through the Open Content Alliance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.