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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Title: Pepperdine University Libraries Records
Identifier/Call Number: 0076
Physical Description:
7.3 Linear Feet
(8 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1937-2013
Abstract: The collection contains materials produced by or about Pepperdine libraries between 1937 and 2013. The libraries represented
are the George Pepperdine College Library (Los Angeles campus); Payson Library and the School of Law library (Malibu campus);
and the Orange County Center library. Items include correspondence and memos, subject files, photographs, library newsletters,
annual reports, and audiocassettes.
Physical Location: Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.
Container: 1 - 15
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[Box/folder# or item name], Pepperdine University Libraries records, Collection no. 0076, Special Collections and University
Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials were gathered from University Archives files.
When George Pepperdine College opened in the fall of 1937, there was no library building and no librarian. The registrar,
J. Herman Campbell, purchased the initial order of books, which faculty chose by selecting titles from Charles Shaw's
A List of Books for College Libraries. The basement of the President's home on campus served as a staging area for library book processing, and two rooms in the
administration building served as the library for the first school year, 1937-1938.
Marian Wright was the first librarian at George Pepperdine College during the school year 1937-1938. After resigning in June,
1938, she was replaced by David Otis Kelley. Kelley stayed from 1938 until approximately 1945, when his duties as Librarian
were temporarily taken over by other campus library staff including Pearl Ward and Marian Pedigo. Robert Broadus was the
librarian from approximately 1947 to 1953. A library building was eventually built on the Los Angeles campus, and the library
staff published their own newsletter to broadcast information to faculty and students (the
George Pepperdine College Library Bulletin, and later
Views and Previews From Your George Pepperdine College Library).
Other staff at various times included Harold Holland (as a librarian in the 1950s, and as Library Director from 1981 to 1989),
Dorothy W. Moore (a librarian and eventual Library Director), Terry Leung (a librarian), Robert (Bob) Sanders (an archivist),
Herbert (Herb) Gore (an archivist), and James Smythe (an archivist). As of 2013, the current Dean of Libraries is Mark Roosa.
A library at the Pepperdine University campus in Malibu (Payson Library) was dedicated on October 15, 1972, in the fall of
the first year students came to the Malibu campus. There are also other libraries on campus in Malibu, libraries on satellite
campuses, and libraries at study abroad locations.
The collection contains primarily correspondence, printed material, and photographs produced by or about the Pepperdine libraries.
The libraries represented are the George Pepperdine College Library (on the Los Angeles Campus); Payson Library and the School
of Law library (on the Malibu campus); and the Orange County Center library. Items in the collection include correspondence
and memos to and from library staff, subject files, administrative files, multiple newsletters written for distribution to
students and library stakeholders, annual reports, and audiocassette recordings of librarian meetings. Materials range in
date from 1937 to 2013.
The collection is arranged in the following five series:
Series 1: Correspondence
Series 2: Subject Files
Series 3: Bulletins and Newsletters
Series 4: Annual Reports
Series 5: Audiocassettes
Series 6: Photographs
The collection was arranged and described by Jamie Henricks in February, 2013. Photographs were added to the collection by
Kelsey Knox in July, 2015.
There are materials related to the library in the Harold E. Holland papers 0035 (from when Holland was Director of Libraries
from 1981 to 1989). Photographs, negatives, and slides related to the libraries can also be found in the Pepperdine University
Archives Photographs, Negatives, and Slides 0031, or online via the Pepperdine Digital Collections, in the University Archives
Photograph Collection (http://pepperdine.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Newsletters
Photographs
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History
Malibu (Calif.) -- History
Brochures
Clippings
Correspondence
Fliers (Printed matter)
Audiocassettes
Annual reports
Administrative records
Library administration -- California -- History
Leung, Terry
Moore, Dorothy W.
Pedigo, Marian
Kelley, David Otis
Ward, Pearl Lewis
Smythe, James Erwin
Broadus, Robert N.
Baxter, Batsell Barrett
Hinckley, M.P.
Gore, Herbert (Herb)
Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University. Pepperdine University Libraries
Wright, Marian
Pepperdine College
Holland, Harold E.