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Louis Round Wilson

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 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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StorylineBuilding the Chapel Hill Methodist church, 1924–19261924–1926 · 6 events · Chapel Hill's Methodists built a new church on Franklin Street in 1925 and 1926, with much of the money coming from conference boards, alumni and friends. In December 1924 their joint commission gave the contract for a church designed by James Gamble Rogers to Jewel and Riddle of Sanford. Members broke ground in January 1925, and presiding elder M. Bradshaw set the cornerstone that April. The red brick church with white trim, replacing the older sanctuary at 150 East Franklin Street, was accepted from the contractors in April 1926 and held its first Sunday service on May 30. That July the long-closed 1853 Methodist church at Rosemary and Henderson streets became an automobile repair station. StorylineThe new University library, 1926–19291926–1929 · 4 events · In September 1926 the University trustees' executive committee asked the legislature for $861,000 for a new library, the largest item in its building request, and the Weekly called the library the University's first need. After Harry Woodburn Chase's pleading, the 1927 General Assembly provided $625,000, and Robert B. House kept the project on schedule with the Advisory Budget Commission while Chase was abroad. Construction began by March 1928 on the south edge of the campus, and estimates came within the appropriation. Students began using the building in the fall of 1929, and it was dedicated on October 19. Named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, it later became the home of UNC's special collections.

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  1. The university opens a summer course in library work By 1904 the university had begun a summer course of instruction in library work, meant to train librarians as workers with books rather than custodians. Louis Round Wilson taught library methods in the 1905 Summer School. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Documenting the American South: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. II (1912), p. 632
  2. Louis Round Wilson has a Craftsman house built on East Rosemary Street Louis Round Wilson, the university librarian, had a large Craftsman-style house built at 607 East Rosemary Street in 1911, an early example of the Arts and Crafts mode in Chapel Hill. Place: 607 East Rosemary Street, Chapel Hill · Also mentions: East Rosemary StreetSearch the index · NC Digital Collections: M. Ruth Little, The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, 1795-1975 (2004), p. 48
  3. The university organizes a Bureau of Extension under Louis Round Wilson Set up as Venable left for Europe in mid-1913 and run by university librarian Louis Round Wilson with no budget of its own, the bureau started programs to take the university's work into the state; the trustees endorsed it in January 1914. People: Edward Kidder Graham Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 83
  4. The Bureau of Extension begins correspondence courses for credit Under Louis R. Wilson, the university's new Bureau of Extension began organizing correspondence courses for credit during the 1914-15 term. It had already widened its free advice for teachers to help town officials with water systems and streets. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: Bureau of Extension, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 97
  5. The SATC is demobilized and half its men leave Chapel Hill Demobilization of the Students' Army Training Corps was completed on December 10, 1918, ending military control of the campus, and half of the SATC men left on the next train. Faculty judged the arrangement a failure because the university had answered to two masters. People: Louis Round Wilson, Marvin Hendrix Stacy Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 183
  6. Trustees and faculty back a $150,000 student building as Edward Kidder Graham's memorial A joint committee of trustees and faculty, meeting in the governor's office in mid-December, agreed to raise $150,000 privately for the student activities building Graham had hoped for, to stand where Person Hall was. Albert Coates ran the drive and by the end of January 1919 announced $20,000 pledged by students, $14,500 of it in one night. People: Louis Round Wilson, Albert Coates, Edward Kidder Graham Place: Governor's office, Raleigh (for UNC, Chapel Hill) · Also mentions: Person HallSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 192
  7. Edward Kidder Graham's Education and Citizenship is published G. P. Putnam's Sons of New York published Education and Citizenship, a 270-page volume of the late president's addresses and papers edited by Louis R. Wilson, H. W. Chase and Edwin Greenlaw, with an introduction by E. A. Alderman of the University of Virginia. People: Edward Kidder Graham, Louis Round Wilson, Harry Woodburn Chase, Edwin Greenlaw Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: E. A. AldermanSearch the index · The News (Chapel Hill), June 5, 1919, p. 1
  8. Thirty-three of forty university professors polled favor ratifying woman suffrage During the 1920 campaign over the Nineteenth Amendment, thirty-three of forty University of North Carolina professors who were asked said they favored ratification. Archibald Henderson said woman suffrage would add eager, active minds to public life, Frank P. Graham called the vote a human right, and Louis R. Wilson said it was illogical for a democracy to deny women the ballot. People: Archibald Henderson, Frank Porter Graham, Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · Internet Archive: North Carolina Historical Review 38 (1961), p. 185
  9. Louis R. Wilson and W. C. Coker are raised to Kenan professorships At the 1920 commencement meeting the trustees made librarian Louis Round Wilson and botanist William C. Coker Kenan professors, in the same action that recognized Horace Williams. People: William Chambers Coker Place: UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Horace WilliamsSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), pp. 201-202
  10. Louis Round Wilson's survey finds thin library collections in Orange County's white schools A questionnaire of Orange County's 48 white schools for 1921–22, including the Chapel Hill and Hillsboro graded schools, found seven with no library and 3,692 volumes for 1,586 pupils, slightly more than two books per pupil. Ten of the 25 teachers who answered said the books were used "not very much"; Wilson published the results in January 1923. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: Orange CountyWilson, "The Use of Books and Libraries in North Carolina," The Journal of Social Forces 1, no. 2 (January 1923)
  11. Chapel Hill Methodists enlarge their Franklin Street grounds through purchases and a swap with the university Talks begun in September 1921 led to the purchase of the Seaton Barbee property from the university and of the A. S. Barbee store, and to an exchange of the Barbee land for vacant fraternity lots the university owned behind the church. The transactions cost $18,000 and more than doubled the church grounds. People: Louis Round Wilson, Robert L. Strowd, Algernon S. Barbee Place: Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Seaton BarbeeSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 40
  12. The University of North Carolina Press is founded On June 12, 1922, university librarian Louis Round Wilson, nine other faculty members and three trustees founded the University of North Carolina Press, the first university press in the South. Its first book, William C. Coker's study of water molds, appeared in 1923, and William T. Couch became director in 1932. People: William T. Couch, Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William C. CokerUNC Research: Local Ink, Inc. (July 20, 2020) · Also: The Daily Tar Heel, April 23, 1981, p. 2; The Daily Tar Heel, December 7, 1990, p. 1
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  1. Robert W. Madry becomes the University's full-time publicity man Persuaded by Louis Round Wilson that the University had to tell its story better, Chase hired Madry, an alumnus then writing for the New York Herald, as its first full-time publicity man. People: Harry Woodburn Chase, Louis Round Wilson, Robert W. Madry Place: UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., Fire and Stone: The Making of the University of North Carolina under Presidents Edward Kidder Graham and Harry Woodburn Chase (2018), p. 270
  2. The University library ends its year with nearly 120,000 volumes At the close of the 1922-23 year the University library held nearly 120,000 volumes, received 1,005 magazines and newspapers, and lent 67,100 items, the largest circulation in its history. Its basement was floored for the extension department, and two sites were being weighed for a new library building. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: University library, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1923, p. 4
  3. Ground is broken for the new Chapel Hill Methodist church Louis Round Wilson, chairman of the stewards, joined pastor Walter Patten, Mrs. A. S. Barbee and other members to break ground on Franklin Street for the church designed by James Gamble Rogers. People: Louis Round Wilson, Walter Patten Place: Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: James Gamble RogersSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 43 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, January 8, 1925, p. 1
  4. William T. Couch joins the University of North Carolina Press as assistant director Couch, who had moved to the Chapel Hill area in 1917, began at the press in 1926 as assistant director under Louis Round Wilson and took over as director in 1932. People: William T. Couch, Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel HillIn the index: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · UNC Libraries: William T. Couch Papers, 1926-1988 finding aid
  5. Work begins on the University's new library T. C. Thompson and Brothers set a steam shovel and scores of laborers to work on the foundations of the new library on the south edge of the campus. Estimates came within the $625,000 the legislature had allowed, and the building was expected to be ready by midsummer 1929. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash, Louis Round Wilson Place: South of South Building, UNC campus, Chapel Hill · Also named: T. C. ThompsonSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, March 30, 1928, p. 1
  6. University library receives an art collection from the Carnegie foundation The University was one of twenty institutions chosen to receive an art library from the Carnegie foundation: about 225 volumes on art history, criticism and appreciation, more than 2,000 fine prints, and samples of textiles, embroidery, wood-cuts and engravings, valued at $5,000 to $10,000 and housed in the librarian's office. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: University Library, UNC campus, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 23, 1928, p. 1
  7. Citizens' committee founds the Mary B. Pratt Library for Chapel Hill children A committee chaired by Mrs. R. H. Wettach raised about $1,300 for a children's library in a room given by the Chapel Hill school, with juvenile books lent by the University library under L. R. Wilson. The committee named it the Mary B. Pratt Library for the late Mrs. Pratt, who had sketched plans for such a library, and set it to open that summer. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel Hill school, West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill · Also named: Mrs. R. H. Wettach, Mary Bayley Pratt · Also mentions: University libraryThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 24, 1929, p. 1
  8. The new University Library opens for use By the summer school of 1929 the university's new library was in use, with Librarian L. R. Wilson and his staff in their offices and hundreds of students at its tables. The Weekly noted its electric book conveyor, which carried books down from the stacks to the delivery desk. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: University Library (later Wilson Library), UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 21, 1929, p. 1
  9. The new University Library, later Wilson Library, is dedicated UNC dedicated its new University Library, planned by Arthur Cleveland Nash and William Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, on October 19, 1929, weeks after students began using the building that fall. It served as the main campus library for decades, was named for librarian Louis Round Wilson in 1956, and after a 1984 to 1987 renovation became the home of UNC's special collections. People: Arthur Cleveland Nash Place: Chapel Hill · Also named: William Kendall · Also mentions: University LibrarySearch the index · UNC, Names in Brick and Stone: Louis Round Wilson Library; with North Carolina Architects and Builders (NCSU Libraries): McKim, Mead and White · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, October 25, 1929, p. 1; The Daily Tar Heel, September 10, 1981, p. 6
  10. Chapel Hill Kiwanians give books to the Orange County library in Hillsboro At its meeting on September 30, 1930, the Kiwanis Club of Chapel Hill resolved to back the movement for public libraries, and every member present gave books and magazines for the Orange County library in Hillsboro. University librarian Louis R. Wilson spoke on county libraries, and the county school supervisor, Miss Hyman, described library plans for Orange. People: Louis Round Wilson Place: Orange County library, HillsboroughSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 3, 1930, p. 1
  11. UNC establishes its School of Library Science A School of Library Science opened at Chapel Hill in the week of September 21, 1931, early in Frank Porter Graham's presidency, with University librarian Louis R. Wilson as director, thirty-five students and a five-year subsidy from the Carnegie Corporation. People: Frank Porter Graham, Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: School of Library ScienceSearch the index · Lefler and Wager, Orange County, 1752-1952 (1953), p. 153 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, September 25, 1931, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1932, p. 3; The Daily Tar Heel, March 27, 1981, p. 2
  12. Louis R. Wilson resigns as University librarian to go to Chicago Louis R. Wilson, University librarian since 1901, resigned to become dean of the graduate library school of the University of Chicago at $12,000 a year. He had built the library, organized the University Press and the extension bureau, founded the Alumni Review and started the new library school. Place: University of North Carolina, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, January 22, 1932, p. 3
  13. Friends of the Library is organized at a dinner at the Carolina Inn Men and women interested in the University library formed the association with John Sprunt Hill of Durham as chairman and Dr. Fred M. Hanes of Winston-Salem as vice-chairman, praised the departing librarian Louis R. Wilson, and made him an honorary life member. Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire recalled the library of fifty years before. People: John Sprunt Hill, Louis Round Wilson, J. G. de Roulhac Hamilton, Joseph Blount Cheshire Jr. Place: Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill · Also named: Fred M. Hanes · Also mentions: University librarySearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 3, 1932, p. 3
  14. The University names R. B. Downs acting librarian and Susan Akers acting head of the library school By September 23, 1932 the University had appointed R. B. Downs acting librarian and Miss Susan Grey Akers acting director of the library school. Both posts had been held by Louis Round Wilson, who resigned to go to the University of Chicago's graduate library school. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Susan Grey Akers, Louis Round Wilson Place: University Library, UNC, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 23, 1932, p. 1
  15. Robert B. Downs is confirmed as University librarian On President Graham's recommendation the trustees' executive committee confirmed Robert Bingham Downs, acting librarian and associate professor of library science, as University librarian in succession to Louis R. Wilson, who had gone to the University of Chicago. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Louis Round Wilson Place: University library, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 20, 1933, p. 4
  16. Relief administrator Harry L. Hopkins gives the University commencement address Rain drove the commencement from Kenan Stadium into Memorial Hall, where a crowd too large for the building heard Harry L. Hopkins, head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, forecast unemployment insurance, old-age pensions and government housing. The University conferred 368 degrees and honorary doctorates on Governor Ehringhaus, Jane S. McKimmon, Herman H. Horne and Louis R. Wilson. People: Jane Simpson McKimmon, Louis Round Wilson, Frank Porter Graham, J. C. B. Ehringhaus Place: Memorial Hall, UNC, Chapel Hill · Also named: Harry L. Hopkins · Also mentions: Kenan StadiumSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, June 15, 1934, p. 1
  17. Carl M. White is appointed Librarian of the University Carl M. White, librarian of Fisk University, was appointed Librarian of the University to succeed Robert B. Downs, who had resigned to go to New York University. He was to take up the post that summer. People: Robert B (Robert Bingham) Downs, Louis Round Wilson Place: University library, Chapel Hill · Also named: Carl M. WhiteSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, April 1, 1938, p. 1
  18. Coates publishes his first history of the Institute of Government, paid for by DeWitt Wallace In place of a speaking tour, Coates wrote a 76-page account of how the Institute grew out of his law classroom, issued under the Popular Government name in the National University Extension Association's studies series. Wallace paid for 30,000 copies for national distribution, and on the advice of Louis R. Wilson and W. T. Couch, Coates took out the profanity before it went to press. People: Albert Coates, William T. Couch, Louis Round Wilson Place: Institute of Government, Chapel Hill · Also named: DeWitt WallaceSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 199
  19. Chapel Hill Methodists celebrate their centennial At the centennial service Fletcher M. Green read a summary of the church's history to the congregation and handed the manuscript to the church. The committee history, first proposed by Louis Round Wilson in 1949, was printed in 1954. People: Fletcher Melvin Green, Louis Round Wilson Place: Chapel Hill Methodist Church, Chapel HillSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Methodist Church: A Centennial History, 1853-1953 (1954), scan p. 9
  20. Louis Round Wilson's history of the consolidated University is released Kenan Professor Louis Round Wilson, connected with the University for more than 60 years as librarian, historian and administrator, released his history and appraisal of the University of North Carolina under consolidation, covering Chapel Hill, Greensboro and Raleigh from the 1931 merger to the present. Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 18, 1964, p. 6
  21. Louis Round Wilson receives three national awards at his centennial festival At a banquet closing the Louis Round Wilson Centennial Festival, the former University librarian, weeks short of his 100th birthday, received the American Association for State and Local History's Award of Merit, the American Association of University Presses' Distinguished Service Award and the American Library Association's Melvil Dewey Medal. The General Alumni Association also named him one of Carolina's Priceless Gems. People: Louis Round Wilson, N. Ferebee Taylor Place: Chapel HillSearch the index · The Daily Tar Heel, December 3, 1976, p. 1

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Harry Woodburn Chase

Wilson, Louis Round · 1960

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).

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The Library of the First State University

Wilson, Louis Round · 1960 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

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The chronicles of the Sesquicentennial

Wilson, Louis Round · 1947 · Univ. of North Carolina Press

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.

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The University of North Carolina Under Consolidation, 1931-1963

Wilson, Louis Round · 1964 · University of North Carolina, Consolidated Office

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).

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The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930

Wilson, Louis Round · 1957

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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Louis Round Wilson, Librarian and Administrator

Tauber, Maurice F. · 1967 · Columbia University Press

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the Duke record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

Reviewed in College & Research Libraries (1967), The Library Quarterly (1967).

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Library Resources and the Philological Club, 1901-1932

Wilson, Louis Round · 1943 · University of North Carolina Library

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.

Included because: Listed as its creator.

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Louis Round Wilson : December 27, 1876-December 10, 1979

1980

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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Louis Round Wilson, one hundred years.

1976 · Southern Historical Collection

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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The great depression and its impact on an emerging research library : the University of North Carolina Library, 1929-1941

McGrath, Eileen L.; Jacobson, Linda A. · 2011

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

UNC

Louis Round Wilson at the University of North Carolina, 1901-1932

Robert Sidney Martin · 1988

Robert Sidney Martin's study of Louis Round Wilson's years at UNC from 1901 to 1932, when he built the university library.

Included because: Catalog heading in the OpenAlex record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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Louis Round Wilson and American university librarianship

Richardson, John V., 1949- · 1981

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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Louis Round Wilson and American university librarianship

Richardson, John V., 1949-; Weaver, Frances A. · 1980

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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Louis R. Wilson : a biographical sketch presented to the friends of Louis Round Wilson at a centennial celebration in his honor

Tauber, Maurice F. (Maurice Falcolm), 1908-1980 · 1976 · Friends of the Library?

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.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979.

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Oral history interview with Louis Round Wilson, 1974 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1974

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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Recording with Louis Round Wilson, 1972 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1972

Louis Round Wilson, recorded on cassette in 1972 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.

Included because: Its title names this person.

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  • Rebecca Wall Collection · NC 378.756 WIL Louis Round Wilson's Historical Sketches Wilson, Louis Round · 1976

    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.

  • Foundational · NC 378.756 WIL The University of North Carolina, 1900-1930: The Making of A Modern University Wilson, Louis Round · 1957

    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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