University of Chicago Graduate Library School Records
University of Chicago Press records (1892-1965) are held at the University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center, including meeting minutes and faculty files, restricted until 2009, and scholarly publications, restricted until 2029. Files on monographs comprise the largest part of the collection. The following Waples publications are included:
Classroom Procedure Test in English Composition (1928), Classroom Procedure Test in Natural Science (1928), Problem Exercises for High-School Teachers (1928), The Commonwealth Teacher-Training Study (1929), What People Want to Read About (1931), The Library (1936), National Libraries and Foreign Scholarship (1936), People and Print (1937), Investigating Library Problems (1939), Libraries and Readers in the State of New York (1939), What Reading Does to People (1940), and Print, Radio, and Film in a Democracy (1942).
Many of Waples’s papers from his tenure at the Graduate Library School were destroyed in a fire in 1961 at his Bel Air, California, home. The remaining papers held outside University of Chicago Library Special Collections Research Center are in the possession of Mrs. Dorothy Waples and the Graduate Library School.
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