Table of Contents

Summary Information

Biographical note

Scope and Content

Administrative Information

Controlled Access Headings

Collection Inventory

2010

Summary Information

Repository

USC Libraries Special Collections

Creator

Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001

Title

Collection on Lawrence Clark Powell

Collection no.

0157

Date [inclusive]

1937-1990

Extent

0.42 linear ft., 1 box

Language

English

Textual materials [Box]

1

Abstract

Articles, pamphlets, offprints, and minor bibliophile publications by and about Lawrence Clark Powell, former UCLA librarian (1906-2000).

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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.

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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.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

USC Libraries Special Collections
2010
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu

Conditions Governing Access

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. Advance notice required for access.

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.

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Controlled Access Headings

Corporate Name(s)

• University of California, Los Angeles. -- Archives

Genre(s)

• Offprints
• Pamphlets

Geographic Name(s)

• Los Angeles (Calif.)--Archival resources

Personal Name(s)

• Powell, Lawrence Clark, 1906-2001 -- Archives

Subject(s)

• Library science--California--Los Angeles--Archival resources

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Collection Inventory

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UCLA Librarian June 1966  Scope and Contents note LCP's retirement (pp. 1-2)				1
UCLA Magazine December 1944  Scope and Contents note LCP as new head librarian (pp. 5, 14-16)				1
Occidental College Alumnus Winter 1967  Scope and Contents note "The Elements of a Good Librarian." Article by LCP (pp. 1-7)				1
The Language of the Heart 1957  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Printed by Gordon Lee at L.A. City College Press.				1
Librarians as Readers of Books 1948  Scope and Contents note Printed by Frank McCaffrey for the Typophiles.				1
"A Convocation at UCLA Honoring Lawrence Clark Powell on his Retirement" 1966  Scope and Contents note Announcement.				1
"The First Annual Hanging in Effigy of Lawrence Clark Powell" 1951  Scope and Contents note Announcement. Rounce & Coffin Club.				1
"Annual Tribute Luncheon to Los Angeles Authors" 1971  Scope and Contents note Announcement. Honoring Fay and Lawrence Clark Powell. Signed by both honorees.				1
Music into Silence Winter 1951  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from The Pacific Spectator.				1
This Dry and Wrinkled Land 1953  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Arizona State Library Assoc.				1
Land of Fiction June 1953  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from California Librarian.				1
"South from Lisbon" Spring 1968  Scope and Contents note Offprint from Southwest Review.				1
"A Tribute to Bradford Booth" Summer 1970  Scope and Contents note Offprint from Modern Fiction Studies.				1
Charles Fletcher Lummis and The Land of Sunshine January 1970  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from Westways.				1
"The Free Flow of Books" October 15, 1951  Scope and Contents note Offprint from Library Journal.				1
"Who is B. Traven?" August 2, 1938  Scope and Contents note Article clipped from New Masses.				1
The Sense of the Past December 1958  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from Historical Society of Southern California Quarterly.				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".				1
Stop Thief! December 1953  Scope and Contents note Offprint from Wilson Library Bulletin.				1
From Private Collection to Public Institution April 1950  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from Library Quarterly.				1
Three Loves Have I February 26, 1955  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet reprint from Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review. Inscribed "To J Z[eitlin]".				1
Recollections of an Ex-Bookseller undated  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Published by Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.				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.				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.				1
Vroman's of Pasadena  October 1953  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet.				1
Lea, Tom. Maud Durlin Sullivan 1962  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Foreword by LCP. Printed by Carl Hertzog.				1
Landscapes and Bookscapes of California 1958  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Friends of the Bancroft Library.				1
Durrell, Lawrence. A Landmark Gone 1949  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. Note by LCP. Printed by Reuben Pearson.				1
The Example of Miss Edith L. Coulter 1969  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. California Library Association.				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.				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				1
The Prospect Before Us 1963  Scope and Contents note Pamphlet. The Book Club of California. Printed by the Grabhorn Press.				1
Libraries in the Southwest 1961  Scope and Contents note Edited by LCP. UCLA Occasional Papers Number 3.				1
The Southwest of the Bookman 1959  Scope and Contents note Collected by LCP. UCLA Occasional Papers Number 11.				1
"Around the World in Sixty Books" 1960  Scope and Contents note Typed pamphlet. UCLA Library.				1
"Profile: Lawrence Clark Powell," by Richard Dillon, Library Journal, (pp. 5341-43) December 1965				1
"To Touch or Not To Touch" September 1958  Scope and Contents note Offprint from ALA Bulletin.				1
Mercurius Redivivus (Newsletter of the Clark Library, edited by LCP). Issues 1-3 1952, 1953, 1958				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."				1
Photograph of John Steinbeck display, "annotated by Lawrence Clark Powell"				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."				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."				1
Make Mine a Small One 1965  Scope and Contents note Peacock Press.				1
Ritchie, Ward, "Some Recollections," AB January 22, 1990				1
"Well Stacked", Westways May 1977				1
"Go Forth and Be Useful: Valedictory Address of the Dean to the Class of 1962," School of Library Science, UCLA` 1962				1
"John E. Goodwin, Founder of the UCLA Library. An Essay Toward Bibliography" 1972				1
Ex Libris Lawrence Clark Powell 1992  Scope and Content Catalog Three, Books West Southwest				1
"An Islandian on the Islands" by Austin T. Wright, introduced by Lawrence Clark Powell 1930 December 9				1
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