- Sous-fonds
- 1938-2019
Part of Library fonds
Providing reference services for its patrons - helping them find research materials and teaching them how to use the Library - is one of the Library's core functions. In 1920 Frances Woodworth was appointed the first "Superintendant of Reading Room and Reference Librarian." Reference services expanded rapidly, and by 1937 a separate Reference Division, headed by Anne M. Smith, had been established. The Division was responsible for coordinating all reference services until 1960 when it was disbanded and its staff and services distributed among the newly-created subject divisions. There was an addition to this sous-fonds of 5 cm of textual material by Associate University Librarian, Research, Lea Starr, in January 2020.
The sous-fonds consists of the Division's monthly and annual reports and minutes of its staff meetings, bound into six volumes. Included with Associate University Librarian Lea Starr's materials is correspondence regarding the Tsilhot'in Archive, cIRcle Collections related files, Koerner Library renovations and terms of reference for the Art in the Library Task Group.