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Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook

On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Olan V. Cook → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook

Incunabula in the Hanes collection of the Library of the University of North Carolina

Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book; Cook, Olan V. (Olan Victor), 1905-1969 · 1960 · Univ. of North Carolina Press

Catalog of the incunabula, books printed before 1501, in the Hanes collection of the University of North Carolina library. Compiled with the Hanes Foundation for the Study of the Origin and Development of the Book and with Olan V. Cook, it was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1960.

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The Hanes collection of rare books

Cook, Olan V. (Olan Victor), 1905-1969 · 1957 · South Atlantic Modern Language Association

Olan V. Cook's article on the Hanes collection of rare books at the University of North Carolina Library, detached from the South Atlantic bulletin, volume 22, number 4, of March 1957. Topics include rare books in Chapel Hill and the Haynes family, and the piece came from the South Atlantic Modern Language Association.

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About Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook

Librarian's papers on Thomas Wolfe, 1938-2006

1938

Working files on Thomas Wolfe kept by successive librarians between 1938 and 2006, numbered 70015 in UNC's North Carolina Collection after a change from CW4 in April 2020. Subjects include a long run of Chapel Hill librarians and Wolfe scholars, among them Mary Lindsay Thornton, Charles E. Rush, Jerrold Orne, William S. Powell, H. G. Jones and Agatha Boyd Adams, with the Thomas Wolfe Society and Asheville history.

Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Cook, Olan V. (Olan Victor), 1905-1969.

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  1. Charles E. Rush takes charge of the university library Charles E. Rush, head of the Cleveland Public Library and a former vice president of the American Library Association, took over as university librarian, succeeding Carl M. White, who had left for the University of Illinois. Assistant librarian Olan V. Cook had run the library in the meantime. People: Olan V. (Olan Victor) Cook, R. B. HouseSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1941, page 4

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