D. D. Dougherty Library, staff, circa 1960, photo 3
 

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Title

D. D. Dougherty Library, staff, circa 1960, photo 3

Description

This image shows a staff member behind the circulation desk flipping through index cards in D. D. Dougherty Library, built 1935, at Appalachian State Teachers College (1929-1967) in the 1960s. A woman can be seen looking at the closed stacks in the background. The library housed more than 140,000 volumes by 1967, and included a curriculum library, a juvenile library, and the Department of Library Science. It was the main library at Appalachian State until 1968, when Belk Library opened. The building also housed the Department of Military Science.

Subject

Libraries
Staff
Academic libraries
Appalachian State University

Source

General Picture File, 2004.040, Box 3, D. D. Dougherty Library, C14.1.6.3.

Publisher

University Archives, Appalachian State University

Contributor

News Bureau

Format

JPEG
Photographs

Language

English

Type

Image

Corporate Names

Appalachian State Teachers College (N.C.)

Place Names

D. D. Dougherty Library (1935)

Date Range

1960-1969

Series

Series 6 -- Colleges, Departments, Offices, and Centers

File name

7143_2004_040_A.jpg

Sponsors

The Appalachian State University Historical Photographs Digitization Project is supported with federal Library Service and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources through the North Carolina ECHO, 'Exploring Cultural Heritage Online' Digitization Grant Program.

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