Collection on Lawrence Clark Powell
0157
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2010
Title: Collection on Lawrence Clark Powell
Collection number: 0157
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Container: 1
Physical Description:
0.42 linear ft.
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1937-1990
Abstract: Articles, pamphlets, offprints, and minor bibliophile publications by and about Lawrence Clark Powell, former UCLA librarian
(1906-2000).
creator:
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001
Scope and Content
Articles, pamphlets, reprints of articles by and about Lawrence Clark Powell, UCLA librarian. Included are essays and articles
honoring Powell, and essays by Powell on readers and reading, librarianship, and book arts.
Biographical note
Lawrence Clark Powell was born Sept. 3, 1906 in Washington, D.C.; his family moved to South Pasadena, CA in 1910. He earned
a BA from Occidental College in 1928 and his Ph.D. from the University of Dijon, France, in 1932. He worked at Jake Zeitlin's
bookstore in Los Angeles during the mid-1930s and graduated from the library school at UC Berkeley in 1937. He worked briefly
at the Los Angeles Public Library before joining the UCLA Library staff in 1938. He served as the UCLA Librarian from 1944
to 1961, director of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library from 1944 to 1966, and became the first Dean, UCLA School
of Library Service, in 1960. When he retired from UCLA in 1966, the campus's main library was named in his honor. A prolific
author, Powell's writings include books and articles on a variety of topics including literature, librarianship, the book
trade, California history, and travel. He served as professor-in-residence at the University of Arizona from 1971, and was
awarded an Honorary Life Membership in the American Library Association in 1981. He died in February (?) 2001.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian.
Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], Collection on Lawrence Clark Powell, Collection no. 0157, Special Collections, USC Libraries,
University of Southern California
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001 -- Archives
University of California, Los Angeles. -- Archives
University of Southern California. -- Archives
Library science--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Archival resources
Offprints
Pamphlets
Box 1
UCLA Librarian
June 1966
Scope and Contents note
LCP's retirement (pp. 1-2)
Box 1
UCLA Magazine
December 1944
Scope and Contents note
LCP as new head librarian (pp. 5, 14-16)
Box 1
Occidental College Alumnus
Winter 1967
Scope and Contents note
"The Elements of a Good Librarian." Article by LCP (pp. 1-7)
Box 1
The Language of the Heart
1957
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Printed by Gordon Lee at L.A. City College Press.
Box 1
Librarians as Readers of Books
1948
Scope and Contents note
Printed by Frank McCaffrey for the Typophiles.
Box 1
"A Convocation at UCLA Honoring Lawrence Clark Powell on his Retirement"
1966
Scope and Contents note
Announcement.
Box 1
"The First Annual Hanging in Effigy of Lawrence Clark Powell"
1951
Scope and Contents note
Announcement. Rounce & Coffin Club.
Box 1
"Annual Tribute Luncheon to Los Angeles Authors"
1971
Scope and Contents note
Announcement. Honoring Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell. Signed by both honorees.
Box 1
Music into Silence
Winter 1951
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
The Pacific Spectator.
Box 1
This Dry and Wrinkled Land
1953
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Arizona State Library Assoc.
Box 1
Land of Fiction
June 1953
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
California Librarian.
Box 1
"South from Lisbon"
Spring 1968
Scope and Contents note
Offprint from Southwest Review.
Box 1
"A Tribute to Bradford Booth"
Summer 1970
Scope and Contents note
Offprint from
Modern Fiction Studies.
Box 1
Charles Fletcher Lummis and The Land of Sunshine
January 1970
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
Westways.
Box 1
"The Free Flow of Books"
October 15, 1951
Scope and Contents note
Offprint from
Library Journal.
Box 1
"Who is B. Traven?"
August 2, 1938
Scope and Contents note
Article clipped from
New Masses.
Box 1
The Sense of the Past
December 1958
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly.
Box 1
Resources of Western Libraries for Research in History ,
September 1942
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
Pacific Historical Review. Inscribed "To Jake [Zeitlin], 9-30-42".
Box 1
Stop Thief!
December 1953
Scope and Contents note
Offprint from
Wilson Library Bulletin.
Box 1
From Private Collection to Public Institution
April 1950
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
Library Quarterly.
Box 1
Three Loves Have I
February 26, 1955
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from
Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review. Inscribed "To J Z[eitlin]".
Box 1
Recollections of an Ex-Bookseller
undated
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.
Box 1
Checklist of the Published Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell.
1966
Scope and Contents note
Compiled by Betty Rosenberg. Slip inserted: "This is one of the copies presented . . . to those attending a Convocation in
honor of Dean L. C. Powell," June 11, 1966.
Box 1
Remarks on the Occasion of the Dedication of the Addition to the Mary Norton Clapp Library Pamphlet.
January 20, 1971
Scope and Contents note
Occidental College.
Box 1
Vroman's of Pasadena
October 1953
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet.
Box 1
Lea, Tom.
Maud Durlin Sullivan
1962
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Foreword by LCP. Printed by Carl Hertzog.
Box 1
Landscapes and Bookscapes of California
1958
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Friends of the Bancroft Library.
Box 1
Durrell, Lawrence.
A Landmark Gone
1949
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. Note by LCP. Printed by Reuben Pearson.
Box 1
The Example of Miss Edith L. Coulter
1969
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. California Library Association.
Box 1
"Policy and Administration" in
Rare Books in the University Library
1948
Scope and Contents note
Booklet. Inscribed by LCP "To Jake [Zeitlin] . . . for his collection of fabrikoid bindings!" Assoc. of College and Reference
Libraries.
Box 1
Essences of Britain
1950
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet reprint from the Annual of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association. Bound in wrappers by the Auk Press as a Christmas
Greeting.
General note
2 copies
Box 1
The Prospect Before Us
1963
Scope and Contents note
Pamphlet. The Book Club of California. Printed by the Grabhorn Press.
Box 1
Libraries in the Southwest
1961
Scope and Contents note
Edited by LCP. UCLA Occasional Papers Number 3.
Box 1
The Southwest of the Bookman
1959
Scope and Contents note
Collected by LCP. UCLA Occasional Papers Number 11.
Box 1
"Around the World in Sixty Books"
1960
Scope and Contents note
Typed pamphlet. UCLA Library.
Box 1
"Profile: Lawrence Clark Powell," by Richard Dillon,
Library Journal, (pp. 5341-43)
December 1965
Box 1
"To Touch or Not To Touch"
September 1958
Scope and Contents note
Offprint from ALA Bulletin.
Box 1
Mercurius Redivivus (Newsletter of the Clark Library, edited by LCP). Issues 1-3
1952, 1953, 1958
Box 1
"Book Arts Club Will Hold Meeting." Clipping from the
Daily Californian
March 23, 1937
Scope and Contents note
"Dr. Lawrence Clark Powell, graduate student in the school of librarianship, will speak on Ward Ritchie and his private press."
Box 1
Photograph of John Steinbeck display, "annotated by Lawrence Clark Powell"
Box 1
"Expansion and Change,"
Annual Report of the Libraries of the University of California
1956-1957
Scope and Contents note
Note clipped to cover, "Dr. Powell must have helped Mr. Voigt write this report."
Box 1
Booklet listing "Gifts Received" by the University of California
1936-1937
Scope and Contents note
Inscribed "To JZ from LP. See p. 4-5."
Box 1
Make Mine a Small One
1965
Scope and Contents note
Peacock Press.
Box 1
Ritchie, Ward, "Some Recollections," AB
January 22, 1990
Box 1
"Well Stacked",
Westways
May 1977
Box 1
"Go Forth and Be Useful: Valedictory Address of the Dean to the Class of 1962," School of Library Science, UCLA`
1962
Box 1
"John E. Goodwin, Founder of the UCLA Library. An Essay Toward Bibliography"
1972
Box 1
Ex Libris Lawrence Clark Powell
1992
Scope and Content
Catalog Three, Books West Southwest
Box 1
"An Islandian on the Islands" by Austin T. Wright, introduced by Lawrence Clark Powell
1930 December 9
