Inventory of the Lillian Baker Griggs Papers, 1930-1949

Abstract

Papers of Lillian Baker Griggs, Librarian of the Duke University Woman's College Library, 1930 to 1949.

Contains primarily correspondence, library planning records, budget files, and other materials related to the operation of the Woman's College Library. The correspondence covers activities of the North Carolina Library, the American Library Association, library legislation and education, as well as the Woman's College Library. Also includes a 60 page typed memoir written by Griggs, ca. 1940

Descriptive Summary

Repository: University Archives, Duke University
Creator: Griggs, Lillian Baker, 1876-1955.
Title: Lillian Baker Griggs Papers, 1930-1949
Language of Material: English
Extent: 1.5 Linear Feet, 1,500 Items
Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

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Primarily correspondence, library planning, budget files, and other materials related to the operation of the Woman's College Library of Duke University. The correspondence covers activities of the North Carolina Library, the American Library Association, library legislation and education, as well as the Woman's College Library. Box 3 includes a 60 page typed memoir written by Lillian Baker Griggs, ca. 1940

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Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Copyright for Official University records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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3 Boxes

Correspondence, 1930 - May 1933 (6 folders)

Box 1

Correspondence, 1930-1940 (6 folders)

Box 2

Correspondence, 1941-1949

Box 3

Woman's College Library planning, 1930-1934

Box 3

Woman's College Library financial and collection reports, 1931-1943

Box 3

Woman's College Library budget, 1935-1947 (7 folders)

Box 3

Woman's College Library Committee, 1937-1949

Box 3

Woman's Club of Durham, 1933-1934

Box 3

Memoirs of Mrs. Alfred (Lillian B.) Griggs, 1876-1955; written 1940

Box 3

Historical Note

Lillian Baker Griggs was born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1867 to William F. and Cora D. Baker. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1895 and married Alfred Flourny Griggs in 1897. After her husband's death in 1908, she entered the Carnegie Library School in Atlanta and received her certificate in 1911. From 1911 to 1923 she was Librarian for the Durham Public Library and from 1924 until 1930 served as Director of the North Carolina Library Commission. In 1930 she became the first Librarian of the Duke University Woman's College Library. Committed to undergraduate library service, it was her goal "to have every girl on campus come into the library at least one time." (Box 2 correspondence, Dec. 14, 1937).

Griggs actively served in a number of professional organizations, including the League of Library Commissions (President, 1929-1930), the North Carolina Library Association (President, 1917-1918, 1931-1932), the Southeastern Library Association, the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association, the North Carolina Folklore Society, and the League of Women Voters.