Organized according to interview and visit, Stevens discusses projects and proposals with various professionals in the humanities. The Humanities program is to affect contemporary culture and the general public appreciation of drama, film and radio. Internationally, the Humanities would exchange print materials and develop Far East studies programs. The program's work with libraries is chiefly of an international character and is concerned with projects aiming to promote the exchange of bibliographical and source materials.
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Organized according to interview and visit, Stevens discusses projects and proposals with various professionals in the humanities. Grants are made to interests in drama, libraries, Far East studies, Latin America, Radio, and film.
The grants, visits and interviews with professionals in the field of humanities focus on language and foreign culture, American studies, and libraries and museums. Stevens tours British universities to determine prospects in Slavic, Near Eastern and Far Near Eastern studies, and effects of World War II on the Press. The diary includes "Mr. David H. Stevens' Calendar of British Visits September 27th- October 26, 1946."
Ford Foundation records, Information Services, Archives and Records Retention, Office Files of Gloria Walters, 1973-1996 3.41 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the office files that Gloria Walters created when she served as Archivist/Records Retention Manager at the Ford Foundation and was based in the Foundation's Information Services, Archives and Records Retention unit. The collection is comprised of 3 series. The first series, Subject files, documents Walters' general activities in leading the Foundation's archives and records retention functions and supporting the larger Information Services department, primarily between 1993 and 1996, whereas the second series, Automation project files, specifically concerns the archive's automation project. Files in the third series, Researcher files, were removed from the Subject files series during processing and closed to access because of concerns over the privacy of the Foundation archive's researchers.
The New York Technical Services Librarians (NYTSL) records include correspondence, minutes, memoranda, reports, questionnaires, programs, financial records, membership records, typescript copies of papers presented at meetings, and related printed materials. Several topics of note are the 1926 meeting to honor Margaret Mann; the 1926 cooperative cataloging issue; and the 1946 American Library Association constitution matter.