box 7, box 8, box 9, box 20
American Library Association (ALA)
1950-1997
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's involvement in ALA, including correspondence and
forms for his honorary membership, meeting minutes, conference materials, an officer's
manual, and presidential addresses. Other topics addressed include rare books
conferences, the Committee on Opportunities for Negro Students, Committee to Aid Italian
Libraries, National Library Week, conferences in New York and New Orleans, ALA
Publishing Board, the ALA Council on freedom of access, the ALA presidency, and the
ALA's international relations.
box 5
Association of Research Libraries (ARL)
1963-1973
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to the ARL, including national plans; a university
management study; meeting minutes; Society of College, National, and University
Libraries materials; and materials on the Federal Relations Committee, higher education
legislation, and cataloging.
box 20, box 21
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
1976-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to the Clark Library, including copies of the entry for the
Clark Library in the
Dictionary of Literary Biography and related
correspondence, additional correspondence, memos, newspaper clippings, committee
reports, newsletters, meeting minutes and agendas, notes on collection development
policy, fliers, and invitations to events. Some materials are related to the Center for
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies and the Faculty Advisory Committee.
box 6, box 7, box 14, box 15
Committees and conferences
1950-1988
Scope and Contents
Contains material related to committees Vosper sat on, including: American Council of
Learned Societies, the Alaska Library Association, Arrowhead Staff Conference,
California Association of School Libraries, Catholic Library Association, Computer Needs
Committee, Committee to Rescue Italian Art, Hawaii Library Association, Idaho Library
Association, International Bibliophile Association, Institute of American Cultures, 1967
International Book Fair, Kansas Library Association, Lilly Library Project, Mountain
Plains Library Association, Medieval and Renaissance Review Committee, National Library
of Medicine Facilities and Resources Committee, Near East Center review, ALA
Pennsylvania Library Association, Society for Research into Higher Education, search
committees for library positions, the Texas Governor's Conference on Libraries, Utah
Library Association, and the Thompson-Ramo-Woolridge-NASA Redstone project on NASA's
information program. Other subjects include: the University of Brasilia, University of
British Columbia, Gennadius Library, Hofstra University, Kent State University Ohio,
Lewis and Clark College Library, and Riverside Public Library.
box 21
Correspondence
1959-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains both personal and professional correspondence, including with the chancellor's
office and personal correspondence on Vosper's family history. Additional materials
includes photographs of libraries on the UCLA campus and a ceremony to present a
commemorative plaque to Vosper.
box 20
Council of Library Resources (CLR)
1968-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's involvement in the CLR, which is now known as
the Council on Library and Information Resources, and includes newsletters,
correspondence, memos, meeting minutes, press releases, reports presented to the board,
and expenses.
box 12, box 13
Farmington Plan Survey
1958-1979
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's work on the Farmington Plan Survey, which was an
attempt by librarians to ensure access to and preservation of foreign research materials
during war, conflict, or other events. The plan was later integrated into the
Association of Research Libraries' functions. These boxes include the
Farmington
Plan Handbook: Revised to 1961 and Abridged
, correspondence, reports, surveys,
materials for the Farmington Plan subcommittees on Asia, Africa, the Middle East, South
Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe, a list of Middle Eastern book dealers, a survey
of African materials, newsletters, and a report titled "The Acquisition and Control of
Publications from the Middle East."
box 13
Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and UNESCO
1970-1977
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's work for the GAC on International Book and
Library Programs and their partnership with UNESCO. The GAC worked with the Department
of State, U.S. Information Agency and U.S. Agency for International Development on
overseas literary and library programs. The materials include correspondence, meeting
minutes and agendas, newspaper clippings, reports, pamphlets, meeting transcripts,
materials related to ALA panels, executive board meetings, library positions,
publications, and materials related to International Book Year 1972 and UN International
Scientific Information System.
box 3, box 4, box 22
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
1962-1992
Scope and Contents
Includes IFLA materials, consisting of Vosper's IFLA membership, pamphlets, notes,
correspondence, council sessions and steering committee minutes, newsletters, bulletins,
dues and finances, statutes, copyright materials, and materials on the Vosper Fellows
program and IFLA's UNESCO partnership, and photographs.
box 22, box 23, box 27
Personal files
1938-1997
Scope and Contents
Includes materials related to Vosper's personal life, including photographs, membership
cards, book orders, his early employment history, pay stubs, newspaper clippings,
correspondence, a loyalty oath, job offers, a civil service exam, student transcripts,
master's degree exam results, University of Oregon transcript, and a certificate for
Order of the Crown from Belgium (1977). Additional materials include Zamorano Club
materials, letters of condolence sent to Loraine Vosper following his death, programs
for memorial services, and an audiocassette labelled "Vosper" that may be an oral
history.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
COLLECTION CONTAINS AUDIO MATERIALS: Audio materials in this collection will require
assessment and possible digitization for safe access. All requests to access special
collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this
page.
box 1, box 2, box 15, box 16, box 17, box 18, box 19, box 26, box 27
Reprints and publications
1948-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains reprints and publications by Vosper, including pamphlets on UCLA Library's
collections, issues of
The Library World and
College and Research
Libraries
, a seminar report on Latin American library materials, and articles
in the ACLS newsletter.
box 9, box 10, box 11, box 12, box 23
UCLA School of Library Service (SLS)
1975-1994
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to courses Vosper taught at the School of Library Service
(SLS) at UCLA, now the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Materials
include correspondence, course schedules, press releases, alumni news and directories,
pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and materials on the American Library in Paris and
British Council Library. Courses that Vosper taught included 400, 461, 230, and 272, as
well as some seminars. The correspondence also includes discussions on the decision to
merge the SLS with the education department after Chancellor Charles E. Young proposed
dismantling the program due to budgetary concerns.
box 5, box 24, box 25, box 27
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
1946-1993
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's work as head UCLA librarian and lectures at
UCLA. Materials include Emeriti Affairs Association papers, Academic Senate newsletters,
Vosper's UCLA appointment, papers on his replacement by Page Ackerman, pay stubs,
newspaper clippings, correspondence, his appointment at the Clark Library, the UCLA
Medal award (box 27), sabbatical materials, and newsletters for the UCLA and Clark
libraries. Additional materials include correspondence with the Chancellor's Office over
the renaming of the now Charles E. Young Research Library and notes on the library's
acquisition policies.
box 5, box 25, box 26
University of Kansas
1952-1994
Scope and Contents
Contains materials related to Vosper's work as director of the library at the
University of Kansas, including correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings,
photographs,
University of Kansas Alumni Magazine issues for 1957 and
1961, pamphlets, a 1953 issue of
California Librarian,
The
Gamut
newsletter, and a catalogue of exhibitions at the Kenneth Spencer
Research Library. Also included are materials related to Vosper's Guggenheim and
Fulbright fellowships, consisting of correspondence, pamphlets, research materials, and
ephemera.
