| Summary: | Papers of Helen Catherine Newman (1904-1965), Librarian of the U.S. Supreme Court, Law Librarian at George Washington University, and AALL Executive Secretary-Treasurer (1934-45), editor of Law Library Journal (1934-42), and President (1949/50), include correspondence regarding the Association (membership, dues, constitution, bylaws, executive board meetings, elections, appointments to committees and committee reports, placement service, Index to Legal Periodicals, effect of World War II on AALL); Annual Meetings (site selection, hotel and rail reservations, program planning, printing of proceedings, 1950 annual meeting in Seattle); professional issues (exchange of duplicates, cataloging and classification, reference questions, law library standards); and Law Library Journal (editing articles, offprints, acquiring back issues, book notices, law book advertising). Correspondents include AALL Presidents A. J. Small, Franklin O. Poole, Frederick C. Hicks, Gilson S. Glasier, S. D. Klapp, S. Moylan, Arthur S. Beardsley, Lewis W. Morse, Sidney B. Hill, Bernita J. Long, Alfred A. Coffey, Jean Ashman, George A. Johnston, Forrest S. Drummond, Lucille M. Elliot, Helen Hargrave, Francis Farmer, Elizabeth Finley, and William B. Stern; other correspondents include Oscar Orman, G. E. Wire, Will Shafroth, American Library Association, American Bar Association, American Standards Association, Association of American Law Schools, West Publishing Co., and H. W. Wilson Co. https://archon.library.illinois.edu/ala/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=8062
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