Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- University of California, Los Angeles. Brain Research Institute and Terzian , Shohig (Sherry)
- Extent:
- .1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Shohig (Sherry) Terzian Papers (Collection 492). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Documemts related to the career of Shohig (Sherry) Terzian, including letters and memos from 1948-1958 that document consultations about staff libraries, deaccessioning or "weeding" holdings of libraries, and participation in the Special Libraries Association.
- Biographical / historical:
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Sherry Terzian (1915-2002), as "Shohig Terzian", compiled a bibliography of the writings of George Santayana in 1940, not present in this collection. As "Sherry Taylor", she was librarian for the Prudential Insurance Company of America; letters and memos from 1948-1958 document consultations about staff libraries, deaccessioning or "weeding" holdings of libraries, and participation in the Special Libraries Association. In 1959, Sherry Terzian became Medical Librarian at the Professional Staff Library of the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute in Los Angeles.
- Acquisition information:
- Transferred by UCLA Brain Research Institute, 2012.
- Custodial history:
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Gift of Shohig (Sherry) Terzian to the UCLA Brain Research Institute's Neuroscience History Archives, 1996; transferred by UCLA Brain Research Institute to UCLA Library Special Collections, 2012.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Shohig (Sherry) Terzian Papers (Collection 492). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940