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Roy Stokes fonds
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2.09 m of textual records.
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Roy Bishop Stokes received his M.A. and M. Phil. From Nottingham University. After heading the School of Librarianship at Loughborough Technical College, he came to British Columbia in 1970. He succeeded Sam Rothstein as director of the Library School. He continued in this position until his retirement in 1982. Throughout his career, Stokes was interested in bibliography, and he published several books on the subject.
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Fonds consists of autographs collected by Roy Stokes, book descriptions he created, various miscellaneous materials found in books, correspondence pertaining to a proposed bibliographical tour by graduate Library School students to the United Kingdom, and bibliographic descriptions of books in the Colbeck Collection by both himself and Library Science students.
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There is no indication as to the date the bibliographic book descriptions were created, nor the date the autographs were collected.