File contains photographic slides of the stacks, circulation desk, work stations, a meeting room and back offices at the W.K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University.
Item is a photographic slide of the interior of the W. K. Kellogg Health Sciences Library at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows part of the stacks and a reading area with chairs.
File contains 2 pages of blackline prints of working designs for a display unit and book cases for the planned Kipling Room in the Killam Library. The drawings include elevations and section details, are stamped "preliminary," numbered S-8 and S-8, and dated 31 March 1969. The Kipling Room ended up remaining in the O.E. Smith wing of the Macdonald Library; it is possible that these furniture plans were used instead for the Morse Room, which was located behind the MacMechan Auditorium.
Item is a presentation board with three architectural drawings mounted vertically using red tape. The drawings are undated and marked as 4B REV, and represent the north, south and east elevations of the proposed Killam Library building.
File comprises a set of plans for the second, third, fourth and fifth floors of the Killam Library, mounted on presentation board with acetate overlays indicating space usages by reference to an unknown key-plan that includes numbers 1-11.
Item consists of a short piece prepared by Carleton Stanley, submitted to the Halifax Chronicle and Daily Star in October 1931, about a gift of books from Francis McLennan to the Library at Dalhousie University. Includes correspondence.
Item consists of a short commentary written by Carleton Stanley in response to a $9,000 donation from the Carnegie Corporation to the Dalhousie Library in October 1932, "solely for the purchase of books and current periodicals for general undergraduate reading in liberal arts".
Fonds consists of administrative and departmental documents pertaining to the University libraries, including records created and collected by Dalhousie prior to the existence of a university library. Records dating prior to the existence of the Killam Library are maintained in a series called Dalhousie College and University Library Early Records.
Series comprises Ronald St. John Macdonald's records regarding his academic activities, including his involvement as a faculty member of York University Osgoode Hall, University of Toronto, Dalhousie University, and other institutions. Series also includes records and research materials regarding the development of Macdonald's publications, unpublished papers, and other materials.
File contains correspondence between J. Graham Morgan and Patricia Lutley, Susan C. Hagen, Shelagh Keene, Serge R. Lachapelle, Sandra L. Walker, Sylvia M. Brooks, Tanja Elizabeth Harrison, Tina Y. Usmiani, Wendy Pelley, and others.
Item is a sheet with two drawings of a second floor plan designed to serve as office and lecture spaces before being converted to a law library and eventually a university museum. One plan shows the space partitioned into a lecture hall, faculty room and offices to serve current needs; in the second it is laid out as a law library. There is also a small inset aerial perspective of the new (temporary) Arts Building in relation to the Science Building and Macdonald Library.
Item is sheet no. 3 of 16 construction drawings for the Macdonald Memorial Library (now the Macdonald Building) at Dalhousie University. It is a second floor plan with the (approval?) signatures of G.S. Campbell, Chairman of the Board of Governors, and building contractors A.D. Falconer and D. McDonald
Item is an unsigned sketch (likely by President Arthur MacKenzie) for the Macdonald Library that indicates two lecture rooms, a faculty room, offices for the president, bursar and secretary, and coat and toilet facilities for faculty.
Item is a first floor plan of the Macdonald Library indicating lecture rooms and sizes and showing the upper part of the future stacks room. There are also two inset sketches of lecture room layouts, one to seat 45 and the other to seat 110; a list of subjects with corresponding professors' initials; and a note indicating the present use of second and third floors by Arts classes. The reverse side has red pencil or charcoal lines marking the walls and is marked "L46" in the lower right corner.
File contains full-scale and 3/4-scale shelving detail drawings; details for a chimney-top rain shield; and a leaded letters template for the O.E. Smith Wing addition built in 1956.
File contains a blueprint set of eight sheets of drawings of alterations and additions to the Macdonald Library and nine drawings from 1955, both by architect Leslie Fairn.
File contains photographs of staff of the Killam Library at Dalhousie University; exhibits and displays of material from Special Collections; equipment used at the library; and other subjects related to the Killam Library and Special Collections. The photographs show Bonnie Boyd; Olga Martell; Pat Hamilton; Grace Tratt; Paddy Burt; Philipp Schmidt-Schlegel; Friedrich W. Gaede; Gayle Garlock; Donald Betts; Mrs. Cook; Jim Campbell; Ann Oxley; Mr. and Mrs. Will R. Bird; Janet Hathaway; Ritch Jamieson; John P. Wilkinson; Mary Lynn Pottie; Charles Armour; Thomas Lackey; and other unidentified people.
Item is a photograph of Grace Tratt, an employee in Special Collections at the Killam Library at Dalhousie University. The photograph shows Tratt looking at a display case of books. The photograph was published in Monthly University News, Volume 1, #1.
Item is a photograph of Dr. Phillipp Schmidt-Schlegel; Dr. Friederich Gaede (German department); Gayle Garlock (librarian); and Donald Betts (Dean of Arts and Science) looking at books in a display case. The photograph was taken on the occasion of the German consul donating money to the Killam Library at Dalhousie University.
File contains photographs taken in the University Club at Dalhousie University, previously known as the Arts Building and the Law Building. The photographs show the library in the Law Building and the men's common room in the Arts Building.
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