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1885–1958 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
5 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 3 works by Charles E. (Charles Everett) Rush.
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A 1946 statement on the need for building relief at the University of North Carolina library, signed at Chapel Hill on 10 December by Louis R. Wilson as chairman of the Friends of the Library and by Charles E. Rush as library director. Published by the university library.
Louis R. Wilson, chairman of the Friends of the Library, and Charles E. Rush, director of the University of North Carolina Library, report on 3 September 1945 that building plans were under way at Chapel Hill. A brief statement issued by the library itself, concerning academic libraries and library buildings there.
Charles E. Rush's checklist of the work Louis Round Wilson did for the University of North Carolina between 1901 and 1932 as its librarian, written when Wilson was honored in his own state. Reprinted for private circulation from the Library quarterly, volume 12, number 3, July 1942.
A Friends of the Library publication marking Charles Everett Rush's years as director of libraries at the University of North Carolina, 1941 to 1954, printed at Chapel Hill in the closing year of his tenure. Topics include academic library directors in Chapel Hill and Rush himself, who lived from 1885 to 1958.
Tribute from the Library Staff Association to Charles Everett Rush, director of libraries at the University of North Carolina, detached from the UNC library news sheet, volume 14, number 2, of summer 1954. A bibliography of his writings runs on leaves 23 to 24 and 29.
Photographs by Samuel Moyle Boone from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, roughly 1,000 items across 2.5 linear feet in the North Carolina Collection at UNC. Topics include university buildings, the Old Well, the Morehead-Patterson Memorial Tower, the library, faculty and employees, and Tar Heel football, along with figures including Betty Smith, Manly Wade Wellman, Charles E. Rush and Louis Round Wilson.
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.
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.
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