Subgroup 03: W. N. C. Carlton papers, 1901-1920
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, memoranda, and scrapbooks relating to the administrative duties of Carlton at the Newberry Library. Library correspondence pertains to all aspects of Library business: reference, book ordering, relations with other libraries and institutions, and routine matters. Scrapbooks include "Curiosa," a volume of chronologically arranged amusing and interesting incoming letters, and Library of Congress correspondence regarding catalog cards. Reports to Trustees, 1909-1913, are bound typewritten reports from the Librarian to the Trustees and committees of the Trustees regarding library affairs.
Dates
- Creation: 1901-1920
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The Newberry Library Archives are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Unprocessed records are available by appointment only. Advance notice is necessary, particularly for administrative files, so that files may be screened for personnel records that are removed when records are processed.
Files containing personal or confidential information about individuals (including individual files on members of the Board of Trustees, individual donor files and records reporting the donations of an individual, personnel records, payroll records, and individual accepted fellows files) are closed for 30 years.
Biography of William Newnham Chattin Carlton
Librarian and author, third Librarian of the Newberry Library from 1909 to 1920. Born in England, Carlton moved in 1882 to the United States for his schooling. Prior to Carlton's tenure at the Newberry, he served as librarian at Trinity College in Connecticut. While at the Newberry, Carlton reorganized and systemized all library procedures; he abandoned the Rudolph Indexer catalogue, revived the card catalogue, and started using Library of Congress cataloguing for the collections. In 1920, Carlton left the Newberry for an unsuccessful venture as rare book dealer. Afterwards, he worked at the American Library in Paris, the Hamilton (Ontario) Public Library, and the Williams College Library.
Extent
4.3 Linear Feet (8 boxes and 9 volumes)
Arrangement
Organized in four series: Library Correspondence (03/03/01), Letterpress Copybooks (03/03/02), Scrapbooks (03/03/03), and Reports to Trustees (03/03/04).
Repository Details
Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository
60 West Walton Street
Chicago Illinois 60610 United States
312-255-3512
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