Manuscripts Department
Library of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION
#4610
JERROLD ORNE PAPERS
Initial Inventory
Abstract: Jerrold Orne (1911- ), library director, Library
Science professor, and consultant on library concerns,
with a national and international reputation as an
expert on academic library buildings, library
standards, and bibliographic control.
Correspondence, reports, photographs, clippings,
and other items relating to Orne's career in
librarianship. Included are materials from his tenure
at the Library of Congress, where, from 1940 to around
1944, he surveyed the collections and coordinated the
defense effort for protecting materials in case of
attack; his 1945 service as assistant librarian in the
office of Alger Hiss during the United Nations
Conference on International Organization; and his work
in making available technical and scientific
information generated by government- sponsored war
research, 1946-1947. Also documented are his library
directorships at Washington University, St. Louis,
1946-1952; Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base,
Ala., 1952-1956; and the University of North Carolina,
1957-1973. There is also material on Orne's
employment as consultant on library topics, including
his work, 1950-1959, with Cuban libraries, and his
U.S. State Department-sponsored visit in 1965 to
survey the conditions of libraries in Vietnam.
Online Catalog Terms:
Academic libraries.
Air University. Library.
Bibliographic control.
Cuban libraries.
Hiss, Alger.
Information dissemination.
Librarians--United States.
Libraries--United States.
Library buildings.
Library of Congress.
Library standards.
Orne, Jerrold, 1911- .
United Nations Conference on International Organization.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
Vietnamese libraries.
Washington University. Library.
Size: About 275 items (1.0 linear feet).
Provenance: Received from Jerrold Orne of Chapel Hill, N.C.,
in February 1992 (Acc. 92035).
Processing Note: Full processing of this collection has been
deferred pending future additions.
Access: No restrictions.
Copyright Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
or their descendants, as stipulated by United
States copyright law.
Table of Contents:
Folder List
Shelf List
FOLDER LIST
Folder 1 Library of Congress, 1940-1949.
Materials relating to Orne's appointment as
fellow in Library Science and Romance
Languages. While at the Library of Congress,
Orne surveyed the collections, reported on the
condition of the Italian and French
collections, organized the collection of
library science literature, and coordinated
the defense effort for protecting materials in
case of attack. About 25 items.
Folder 2 Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., 1941-1942; 1958.
Materials relating to Orne's position as
librarian and associate professor of modern
languages. Included are photographs of the
library, an annual report, and a report
entitled, "The Place of the Library in the
Teaching Program." The 1958 item is a letter
from a history professor at Knox about the
changes that had taken place at the college
since Orne's departure. About 15 items.
Folder 3 United Nations, San Francisco, 1945.
Materials relating to Orne's work in the
office of Alger Hiss in connection with the
United Nations Conference on International
Organization. Orne served as assistant
librarian of the Secretariat. The conference
was charged with writing the United Nations
charter; one of the items is a cartoon
captioned "From Debate to Document thru the
International Secretariat," which depicts the
process by which the charter was written.
About 15 items.
Folder 4 Office of Research and Inventions, United States
Navy, 1945-1946.
Materials relating to Orne's work on subject
headings and other bibliographic tools for use
in naval research libraries. 6 items.
Folder 5 Publication Board, Dept. of Commerce, 1946-1947.
Materials relating to Orne's position as chief
of the Library Division of the Office of the
Publication Board, United States Department of
Commerce. The Office of Publication was
established in 1945 to collect and make
available technical and scientific information
generated by government-sponsored war
research. Included is notification of the
development of a new list of scientific and
technical subject headings. About 25 items.
Folders 6-7 Washington University, St. Louis, 1946-1952.
Materials relating to Orne's position as
director of libraries at Washington
University. Included are letters about his
employment, printed materials about the
library system, and annual reports issued
during his tenure. About 25 items.
Folder 8 Cuban libraries, 1950-1959.
Materials relating to Orne's various library
consulting jobs for Cuban libraries,
especially the library of the Sociedad
Econ˘mica de Amigos del PaĦs in Havana. About
25 items.
Folders 9-10 Air University, Department of the Air Force,
Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., 1952-1956; 1984.
Materials relating to Orne's position as the
director of the Air University library, which
he helped found. Including are pictures and
reports, including "Military Literature from
the Librarians' Point of View." Also included
is a 1984 letter from a former co-worker about
Air University's new library facility. About
50 items.
Folder 11 University of North Carolina, 1957-1977.
Materials, chiefly printed materials, relating
to Orne's tenure as director of the Academic
Affairs Libraries, 1957-1973, and as Library
Science professor, 1972-1976. About 10 items.
Folder 12 Redstone Arsenal, George C. Marshall Space Flight
Center, Huntsville, Ala., 1961.
Orne's report as consultant, with others, in a
survey of library facilities and services at
Redstone. 1 item.
Folder 13 Institute for the Training of Library-Building
Consultants, University of Colorado, 1964.
Notes taken by Orne at the Institute. 1 item.
Folders 14-15 Vietnamese libraries, 1965-1967.
Materials relating to Orne's activities under
a grant from the American Specialist Program
of the United States Department of State to
study the condition of libraries in Vietnam.
Included are letters to and from State
Department personnel and Vietnamese librarians
and reports, notes, and pictures relating to
the libraries Orne visited in Saigon, Hue, and
other locations. About 50 items.
Folder 16 Rutgers University, 1971-1972.
Materials relating to arrangements for Orne to
teach a seminar in research library
administration and a class in building library
collections during the spring 1972 semester.
About 10 items.
Folder 17 United States Army War College, Department of the
Army, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1971-1972.
Materials relating to Orne's work as a
consultant employed to review the planning for
relocation of the library at the Army War
College and library procedures followed at the
library. About 20 items.
Folder 18 Northeast Missouri State University, 1974; 1980.
Report on short and long-range planning for
the library at Northeast Missouri State
University and a 1980 letter about the death
of the library director's wife. 2 items.
Folder 19 United States Army Military History Research
Collection, Carlisle Barracks, Pa., 1974.
Report on Orne and others on operations at the
Military History Research Collection. 1 item.
Folder 20 Adelphi College, 1974.
Report on the growth problems at the Adelphi
College library. 1 item.
Folder 21 Southwest Missouri State University, 1975-1981.
Reports on library facilities and clippings
about the library building at Southwest
Missouri State University. 5 items.
Folder 22 National Defense University, 1978.
Report of a library survey Orne produced with
William A. Gosling of Duke University. 1
item.
Folder 23 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1973-1988.
Chiefly correspondence with librarians at
various locations about library procedures,
organizations, and meetings. Included is a
Christmas card relating to Orne's consulting
with Japanese libraries. About 30 items.
SHELF LIST
Box 1 1940-1956 (folders 1-10)
Box 2 1957-1988 (folders 11-23)