Libraries and Media Services, Records. Handbooks, Guides, and Manuals

Finding Aid

Prepared by Barbara Bass, May 11, 2005; Revised June 2012 by Penny White; Updated July 2020
3 record storage boxes, 3 cubic feet, 11th floor

Arrangement: Arranged by name of handbook, guide, manual. Please note that LMS/UL Faculty Handbooks are located in a separate box due to extent of these handbooks.

Box 1
Folder -- Contents

1. Accessions list: 1977
2. Architecture bulletin
3. Architecture: miscellaneous publications: 1990
4. Binding book: 1914-1921
5. Changing Bibliographic Records: 1993
6. Disaster Response Manual: January 2009
7. Food and Drink Policy for the Main Library: 2002
8. Guide to Microform Series: prepared by Ruth Main: Nov. 1969
9. Guide to the Archives, Manuscripts and Photographic Collections: American History Research Center: 1981
10. Guide to the Archives, Manuscripts and Photographic Collections: American History Research Center: 1984
11. Guidelines for Indexing the Daily Kent Stater: 1984
12. Humanities Division: manual: 1963
13. Library building guides: [1970]-
14. Library fact sheet: 1981; 1982/83-1983/84; 1986-87
15. Library Guide to Genealogical Sources: by Mary Beth Aust and Robert J. Dodge: n.d.
16. Library guides: no. 1-18
17. Library guides: no. 30-120
18. Library guides: no. 121-154
19. Library guides: 1973
20. Library guides: 1981
21. Library guides: 1990-2000
22. Library guides: 2001-
23. Library guides: miscellaneous
24. Library handbooks: 1968-69
25. Library handbook: draft 3: 1978
26. Library handbook: draft 4: 1978
27. Library hours: 1966-1977
28. Periodical Indexes and Abstracts in Kent State University Libraries: 1970
29. Periodical Indexes and Abstracts in Kent State University Libraries: 1979
30. Preliminary Recommendation of a General Library Acquisitions Policy: folder 1: 1966-1976
31. Preliminary Recommendation of a General Library Acquisitions Policy: folder 2: 1966-1976

Box 2
Folder -- Contents

1. Reference Training Manual: 1980
2. Reference Presentation Guide, 2002
3. Special Collections and Archives: student/clerk manual: 1985
4. Student Employment Handbook, 2001
5. Student Employment Handbook for Supervisors, 2003
6. Television Production Assistant's Manual: n.d.
7. Library Emergency Manual: correspondence: 1977-79, 1983
8. Library Emergency Manual: 1977
9. Library Emergency Manual with updates: 1977-1980
10. Library Policy Manual: original (handwritten): [no date]
11. Library Policy Manual: notices of updates: 1974-75
12. Library Policy Manual: 1968
13. Library Policy Manual: correspondence: [no date]
14. Library Policy Manual: correspondence: 1968-1973
15. Library Policy Manual: correspondence: 1974-1978
16. Library Policy Manual: correspondence: 1979-1982
17. Library Policy Manual: miscellaneous pages: 1971, 1974
18. Library Policy Manual: table of contents and index: 1974-75

    Manual sections divided by department.

19. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 1100 with updates (Administration): 1973-79
20. LIbrary Policy Manual: procedure nos. 1000-1420 with updates (Personnel): 1973-79
21. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2000-2103 with updates (Public Services and Circulation): 1973-78
22. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2100-2199 (Circulation): 1973
23. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2200 with updates (Documents): 1973-78
24. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2300 with updates (Reference): 1973-79
25. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2350 with updates (Interlibrary Loan): 1974-81
26. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2400-2500 with updates (Branch Libraries): 1973-79
27. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3000 with updates (Technical Processing): 1973-79
28. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3100 with updates (Acquisitions): 1973-79
29. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3200 with updates (Cataloging): 1973-79
30. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3300 with updates (Processing): 1973-79
31. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3400 with updates (Serials): 1973-79
32. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 4000 with updates (Special Collections): 1971-76
33. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 5000 with updates (Archives): 1978

    Manual sections by main procedure number category

34. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 1000 (Administration): 1973-79
35. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 2000 (Public Service): 1973-79
36. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 3000 (Technical Services): 1973-79
37. Library Policy Manual: procedure nos. 4000-5000 (Special Collections and Archives: 1973-79

Box 3: Faculty Handbooks
Folder -- Contents

1. Faculty Handbook: draft #3: 1978
2. Faculty Handbook: 1979
3. Faculty Handbook: 1981
4. Faculty Handbook: 1994
5. Faculty Handbook: [2000]
6. Faculty Handbook: [2000-2006]
7. Faculty Handbook: September, 2009
8. Faculty Handbook: August, 2010
9. Faculty Handbook: September 2010
10. Faculty Handbook: September 2011
11. Faculty Handbook: 2014-2016 [intranet version]
12. Faculty Handbook: 2017 [so-called "bucketized version"]
13. Faculty Handbook: 2020 [print-off of the handbook as published online]