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Jerrold Orne directed the libraries of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1957 to 1973 and then taught there as professor of library science until 1976.
Source: American Library Association Archives: Orne, Jerrold (1911-2008)
1911–2008 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
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Forward planning statement for the University of North Carolina Library, signed at the end by Jerrold Orne as university librarian and printed at Chapel Hill in 1957. Topics include academic library planning in Chapel Hill, and the title sets the horizon at 1970, thirteen years ahead of the writing.
Jerrold Orne wrote this article on the libraries of the University of North Carolina and Duke University for Library Trends, volume 15, number 2, in October 1966. The author's reprint runs from page 222 to page 247. Academic libraries in North Carolina are the subject, chiefly the two research collections at Chapel Hill and Durham.
About 1,860 photographs made by Francis Lavergne Johnson (1901-1971) between 1948 and 1971, 1.8 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Johnson photographed university faculty and employees, and subjects include William Aycock, Katherine Kennedy Carmichael, Albert Coates, Paul Green, Charlie Justice, Josephina Niggli and Louis Round Wilson among those who worked at Chapel Hill in those years.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008.
Ninety nine linear feet from the Office of the University Librarian at Chapel Hill, roughly 76,800 items dated 1894 and then 1904 to 2008, University Archives 40047. Topics include academic libraries in North Carolina, library buildings, catalogs, and automation, along with the history of higher education. Louis Round Wilson, Charles E. Rush, Jerrold Orne, and James F. Govan are named, as are the Davis Library and the House Undergraduate Library.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008.
Rosemary Ruhig Du Mont's biographical sketch of Jerrold Orne, the librarian who served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Six pages with portraits, detached from the Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 8, number 1, and published in 1982 by Mountainside in Ann Arbor. Topics include librarians of North Carolina.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Orne, Jerrold, 1911-2008.
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