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- 12 April 1965-5 August 1974 (Creation)
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1 file
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Comprises correspondence (mainly with Librarians and other members of the Salk Institute) relating to the Salk Institute Library on subjects including purchasing books and journals, review of plans for the Library, expenditures, furniture, membership and meetings of the Library Committee, reorganisations of the Library, staffing, borrowing procedures, funds raised by the Women's Association for the Salk Institute, and arrangements with the University of California at San Diego for members of the Salk Institute to use the University library.
Includes: a copy of a letter from Bronowski to Philip A. Larkin (Librarian, University of Hull) asking if Larkin would be interested in the job of Librarian at the Salk Institute; a copy of a memorandum from Bronowski to John Hunt (Salk Institute) requesting funds for the Archive [of Contemporary Biology] and the Szilard Collection to be added to the Salk Institute budget for 1969-70; and correspondence between Polly Whalen and Richard Blackwell (Blackwell's bookshop, Oxford) regarding Blackwell visiting the Salk Institute and searching for an article for Bronowski.
Also includes a notice about the appointment of a Senior Librarian (Frederic M. West) and a summary of Library procedures (1968).
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CLOSED under the Data Protection Act, until Jan 2047.