Restrictions to Access

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This collection contains additional materials that are not available for immediate or same day access. Please contact Research and Instructional Service staff at wilsonlibrary@unc.edu to discuss options for consulting these materials.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Friends of the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40061, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

Finding aid updated by Jodi Berkowitz in October 2015, Laura Smith and Jennifer Coggins in October 2019 because of addition.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Academic libraries--North Carolina.
• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Library resources.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Friends of the library--North Carolina.
• General education--North Carolina--History.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Departments.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Libraries.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Library. Friends of the Library.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Libraries.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Friends of the Library.

• Office of the University Librarian Records (#40047)
• Louis Round Wilson Papers (#3274)

The Friends of the Library was founded in May 1932 and has been in continuous operation since that date. It was organized by University Librarian Louis Round Wilson to be an agent for the development of the Library's collections. Membership is open to all who pay nominal annual dues. Honorary life-time memberships are granted to donors who have made significant contributions to the Library, either by providing financial support for its development, or by the gift of books, manuscripts, or other library materials.

These records of the Friends of the Library include correspondence, financial records, and reports of the annual meetings of the organization.

• Videotape (VT-40061/1)