Dartmouth College Library
Collection Management & Development Program
Collection Development Policy
ARCHIVES: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ALUMNI PUBLICATIONS
- COLLECTION AREA
- GENERAL PURPOSE
- DARTMOUTH COLLEGE PROGRAM
- GENERAL SUBJECT BOUNDARIES
- LANGUAGES
- TYPES OF MATERIALS COLLECTED
- FORMAT OF MATERIALS COLLECTED
- SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND MANUSCRIPTS
- OTHER RESOURCES AVAILABLE
- COLLECTING INTENSITY
- CREATION DATE
- REVISION DATE
- BIBLIOGRAPHER
Archives: Alumni Publications
Alumni Publications represents a wealth of writings by and about the alumni/ae and faculty of Dartmouth College and the professional schools, as well as books edited, illustrated, or designed by alumni/ae and faculty members. The collection was gathered by Harold Goddard Rugg, Class of 1906, Associate Librarian of the College, and represents a comprehensive history of alumni writings for the first 150 years of the College. The collecting scope post-1922 is more limited. Publications by or about alumni/ae and faculty whose personal papers are held by Special Collection are collected. Gifts from alumni/ae graduating after 1922 may be added to the collection with a preference given to their addition in the general stacks, as appropriate.
Alumni Publications is a heavily used collection in Special Collections for course work and recreation. Dartmouth graduates have been leaders in such areas as government, education, social causes, literature, medicine, astronomy, exploration, and religion; they have had great opportunity to publish their professional findings. Salmon P. Chase, Nelson Rockefeller, Rufus Choate, John Humphrey Noyes, Joel Barlow, C. Everett Koop, Charles Augustus Young, John Ledyard, and Philander Chase are a few examples.
There are no subject boundaries beyond what alumni publish.
English by far predominates, but all foreign languages are collected.
The collection primarily consists of monographs and serials; textbooks are excluded. Pamphlets and articles may be collected but are more often maintained with the Alumni Files.
The collection consists primarily of printed material; no format is totally excluded.
Alumni Publications is a part of Special Collections.
Circulating copies of titles are in the open stacks. Other titles published by contemporary alumni and faculty which are of significant interest to the Library's users and not acquired for Alumni are purchased for the open stacks. An inactive collection, Alumni Pamphlets, contains articles, references, and pamphlets by and about alumni. Citations for the thousands of journal articles written by alumni and faculty may be tracked down through an abundance of bibliographies and indexes.
Existing strength of the collection: 4
Actual current level of collection activity: 3
Desirable level of collecting to meet program needs: 4
Writings by alumni who graduated prior to 1922 (the first 150 years of the College) are actively acquired, while those writings of alumni/ae for succeeding years are selectively added. Publications by alumni/ae whose personal papers are held by Special Collections are sought.
When an alumnus/a donates a book which he or she has written, the Archivist and the appropriate Collection Development Librarian consult as to whether the book should be housed in Alumni or in the open stacks. There is no effort to duplicate stack holdings without a specific purpose.
Works by Dartmouth professional school graduates; professional school faculty; and honorary degree recipients are not acquired with any regularity. Dana Biomedical Library does attempt to acquire works by Medical School graduates and faculty. Biographical publications on alumni and faculty are added to the collection. Clippings and reprints of articles are placed in the alumnus' folder. Alumni and faculty manuscripts are located in Manuscripts. Other non-published material such as iconography and phonotapes may be located in D.C. History. Two alumni, Richard Eberhart and Robert Frost, have become separate collections and are overseen by the Curators of Rare Books and of Manuscripts.
April 1983 Kenneth C. Cramer
March 1998
Anne Ostendarp
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