Overview
Roger E. Stoddard's personal and professional correspondence, lectures, and topical files for publications.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1953-2016
Creator
- Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot) (Person)
Language of Materials
In English.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material. Collection is open for research.
This collection is shelved offsite at the Harvard Depository. Retrieval requires advance notice. Readers should check with Houghton Public Services staff to determine what material is offsite and retrieval policies and times.
Extent
24.4 linear feet (22 boxes)Includes correspondence, topical files for publications, slides, photographs, posters, awards and certificates, and lecture materials.
Biographical / Historical
Roger Eliot Stoddard (1935-) is a librarian and author. He attended Brown University where he formed a partnership with John G. Blair as Sibylline Booksellers. Stoddard was the Assistant Curator of the Harris Collection (1963-1965) at Brown University, and held several positions at Houghton Library at Harvard University as the Assistant to the Librarian (1958-1961), the Assistant Librarian (1965-1969), the Associate Librarian (1969-1985), and Curator of Rare Books (1985—). One of his most well known publication is "A Library-Keeper's Business".
Arrangement
Collection is minimally processed. Materials are loosely arranged into nine series: Awards and Certificates; Biographical Files; Correspondence; Institutional Notes; Lectures and Teaching Materials; Offprints; Photographs and Images; Posters; and Publication Notes.
Physical Location
Harvard Depository
Immediate Source of Acquisition
2019M-062. Gift of Roger E. Stoddard in 2018 June.
2022M-47. Gift of Roger E. Stoddard, 2021 August.
Processing Information
Minimally processed by Magdaline Lawhorn, 2019.
Creator
- Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot) (Person)
- Sibylline Booksellers (Organization)
- Title
- Stoddard, Roger E. (Roger Eliot). Roger E. Stoddard papers, circa 1953-2016 (MS Am 3272): Guide
- Status
- completed
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard University.
- Date
- February 12, 2019
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- hou03096
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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