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UCLA Catalog Record ID
Title: Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dean. Administrative files of Andrew Harlis Horn.
Identifier/Call Number: University Archives Record Series 451
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3.6 linear ft.
(9 boxes)
Date: 1941-1979
Abstract: Record Series 451 contains the administrative files of Dean Andrew Harlis Horn of the Graduate School of the Library and Information
Sciences, including Dean Horn's articles, lectures, course materials, and research projects.
Creator:
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
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[Identification of item], Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Dean. Administrative files of Andrew Harlis
Horn (University Archives Record Series 451). UCLA Library Special Collections, University Archives.
Biographical note
Andrew Harlis Horn (b. 1914 - d. 1983)
Andrew Horn was a member of the library staff at UCLA from 1948 to 1954 and served as the Assistant Head and Head of the Department
of Special Collections, University Archivist, and Assistant University Librarian. From 1952-1954, he was the Associate University
Librarian.
In 1954 he became University Librarian and Professor of Librarianship at the University of North Carolina. Horn returned to
Southern California in 1957 to be the College Librarian of Occidental College in Pasadena, CA.
In 1959, Horn was asked to return to UCLA to help Lawrence Clark Powell organize a School of Library Service (later known
as the Library and Information Studies School, and the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science). He served
as Dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Library and Information Science from 1966 to 1974. He retired in 1978 and became Dean
Emeritus. Horn continued to teach classes in letterpress printing at the School until 1982.
Scope and Content
Record Series 451 contains the administrative files of Dean Andrew Harlis Horn of the Graduate School of the Library and Information
Sciences, including Dean Horn's articles, lectures, course materials, and research projects.
This is an inactive record series; no additional University records are expected to be added.
UCLA Catalog Record ID