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Louis Round Wilson became librarian of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1901, directed the new University of North Carolina Press from 1922 to 1932, and was the first dean of the School of Library Science when it opened in 1931. He left for the University of Chicago in 1932 and returned to the Chapel Hill faculty in 1942.
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1876–1979 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
31 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes 31 works by Louis Round Wilson. 1 held at OCPL →
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Collected historical sketches by Louis Round Wilson, the longtime University of North Carolina librarian, published in Durham by Moore Publishing in 1976. The 435 pages cover the history and intellectual life of the university and of Chapel Hill.
Louis Round Wilson's short biography of Harry Woodburn Chase (1883-1955), president of the University of North Carolina from 1919 to 1930 and afterward president of the University of Illinois and chancellor of New York University. Wilson was the university's longtime librarian and knew Chase's Chapel Hill years at first hand. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1960, 55 pages.
Reviewed in The Library Quarterly (1960), The Journal of Higher Education (1961).
Louis Round Wilson's 40-page review of the University of North Carolina library, subtitled on the cover a review of its past and a look at its future. Wilson had directed the library for three decades before leaving for Chicago, and the university's main library carries his name. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill in 1960, with illustrations.
Louis Round Wilson's record of the University of North Carolina's sesquicentennial, the celebrations of 1939 marking one hundred fifty years since the university's charter in 1789. Wilson, the longtime university librarian, compiled the chronicle for the University of North Carolina Press, which issued it in 1947. 349 pages with illustrations and portraits.
Louis Round Wilson's history and appraisal of the University of North Carolina under consolidation, the period from 1931 to 1963 when the Chapel Hill campus, State College in Raleigh and the Woman's College in Greensboro were run as one system. Published by the university's Consolidated Office in 1964, 483 pages with bibliographical footnotes. It treats the administration and history of the system, the Chapel Hill campus and what became North Carolina State University.
Reviewed in College & Research Libraries (1964), The Library Quarterly (1964).
Louis Round Wilson's history of the University of North Carolina from 1900 to 1930, subtitled the making of a modern university, written by the librarian who served the university through most of that period. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957, 633 pages with illustrations, it covers the growth of the campus, its schools and its faculty in three decades of expansion.
Reviewed in The Journal of Southern History (1957), College & Research Libraries (1957), The Library Quarterly (1957), South Atlantic Quarterly (1958), Social Forces (1958).
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Maurice F. Tauber's biography of Louis Round Wilson, who directed the University of North Carolina library from 1901 to 1932 and later served as dean of the Graduate Library School at Chicago. Published by Columbia University Press in 1967, 290 pages with illustrations and portraits, a chronological list of Wilson's writings and editorial work, and notes. Wilson lived to 103, so the book covers a long career still in progress.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Reviewed in College & Research Libraries (1967), The Library Quarterly (1967).
Paper by Louis Round Wilson on the university library's resources and the Philological Club at the University of North Carolina from 1901 to 1932. He read it before the club in Chapel Hill on 16 March 1943, and it was reprinted from the Graduate School's 'Research in Progress' later that year. Nineteen pages.
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Memorial publication for Louis Round Wilson, the University of North Carolina librarian, who was born December 27, 1876 and died December 10, 1979. Issued in 1980, it is a biographical tribute to an academic librarian in Chapel Hill whose name the university's main library carries.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Guide to a 1976 exhibit in Wilson Library marking the hundredth year since the birth of Louis Round Wilson, the librarian whose name the building carries. Prepared by the Southern Historical Collection and printed on a single sheet folded to two pages. Topics include librarians of Chapel Hill and exhibitions mounted by the University of North Carolina library.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Eileen McGrath and Linda Jacobson write on the University of North Carolina library between 1929 and 1941 and what the Great Depression meant for a research library still taking shape. Dated 2011. Topics include research library acquisitions in Chapel Hill and the library's history, and include Louis Round Wilson.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Robert Sidney Martin's study of Louis Round Wilson's years at UNC from 1901 to 1932, when he built the university library.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the OpenAlex record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
A revised typescript by John V. Richardson on Louis Round Wilson, 1876 to 1979, and his part in American university librarianship, dated 1981. Topics include academic librarians in Chapel Hill, the history of the University of North Carolina library, and the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
A 1980 typescript of a study of Louis Round Wilson and American university librarianship, carrying manuscript corrections by Frances A. Weaver, who is named alongside John V. Richardson as a creator. Topics include academic librarians in Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina library, and the Graduate Library School at the University of Chicago. In the North Carolina Collection at UNC.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Maurice F. Tauber's biographical sketch of Louis Round Wilson, the university librarian at Chapel Hill whose name the library carries, prepared for the centennial celebration on December 2, 1976. A nine page pamphlet by Frances A. Weaver on Wilson's years since 1955 is tucked in a pocket. Issued in Chapel Hill by the Friends of the Library.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.
Louis Round Wilson, longtime UNC librarian, interviewed in 1974 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society's early oral history program. No notes on the conversation survive. Cassette, Audiovisual Materials Collection, CHHS.012.
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Louis Round Wilson, recorded on cassette in 1972 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.
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Collected historical sketches by Louis Round Wilson, the longtime University of North Carolina librarian, published in Durham by Moore Publishing in 1976. The 435 pages cover the history and intellectual life of the university and of Chapel Hill.
Louis Round Wilson's history of the University of North Carolina from 1900 to 1930, subtitled the making of a modern university, written by the librarian who served the university through most of that period. Published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1957, 633 pages with illustrations, it covers the growth of the campus, its schools and its faculty in three decades of expansion.
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