Final copy of paper by Violet L. Coughlin entitled "Workbook for Library Service R 224 Alice I. Bryan" dated 1958, Columbia University.

Lecture notes on storage and weeding, reasons and procedures of discarding. Also contains lists of readings and journal articles.

Fonds consists primarily of originals and printed materials concerning courses Coughlin taught in the Library School (1952-1979), and her own graduate studies and research (1958-1975). Her teaching materials comprise lecture notes, supplemented by clippings, articles, and bibliographies, for courses on book selection (including class lists, marks (restricted), a student project and examinations), research methods, and library work with children. Material stemming from her graduate studies comprises two papers submitted for her M.A., and two unrevised copies of her D.L.S. thesis on Canadian public library services. Her continuing interest in public libraries in Canada generated a series of research files of notes, photocopies and clippings (1961-1975).

Lecture notes on scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences.

Lecture notes on translation publishing, work and qualifications of a translator, criteria for selection, selection of scientific and technical translations and of translation of contemporary works.

Two unrevised copies of her thesis concerning public library service in Canada and submitted at Columbia University in 1966 for D.L.S.

Student paper by Ian C. Nelson on "Selection in Public Libraries" and on Selection in the Public Library of Hamilton.