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                         RECORDS OF THE
                    ACADEMIC AFFAIRS LIBRARY
                 HUMANITIES REFERENCE DEPARTMENT

                             in the

             University Archives and Records Service
           University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
                    Wilson Library, CB# 3926
                   Chapel Hill, North Carolina
                           27514-8890

                          November 1982

     The Library's Reference Department was established in 1924
to handle three major functions: (1) inter-library loans, (2)
access to and use of the non-circulating reference collection,
and (3) preparation of bibliographies on sources.  During the
1957-1958 academic year the Department's name was changed to
Humanities Division.  As a result of the 1975-1976 administrative
reorganization of the Library, the name was revised to Humanities
Reference Department.  Effective January 1, 1993, the Humanities
Reference Department and the Business and Social Sciences
Reference Department merged to form a single department, again
named the Reference Department.

     Heads of the Department/Division and their tenures are as
follows:

     Georgia Hicks Faison     1924-1957
     Louise McGwigan Hall     1957-1983
     Mary Rush Ishaq (Acting) 1983-1986
     Melissa M. Cain          1986-1992
     Cynthia Adams (Acting)   1992-1993

Additional information on the Department can be found in:

     Records of the Office of the University Librarian in the
     University Archives; and

     Louis Round Wilson Papers (#3274) in the Southern Historical
     Collection.

     The Records of the Humanities Reference Department are
arranged as follows:

     Administrative Correspondence and Memoranda, 1929-1967; 1972
     Procedures Manual, ca. 1946-1954
     Reports, Narrative and Statistical, FY 1928-1929-FY
          1957-1958