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No restrictions. Open for research.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library Records #40246, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library in July 2002 (Records transfer #20020718.1).

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.

Processed by: Lori Neumeier, March 2012

Encoded by: Lori Neumeier, March 2012

Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, February 2021

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.
• Education, Higher--North Carolina--History.
• Gasaway, Laura N.
• Kathrine R. Everett Law Library.
• Law libraries--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Legal research--North Carolina.
• Library resources--North Carolina.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--History.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Libraries.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Law Library.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. School of Law.

• Office of the Provost of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40039)
• Office of the University Librarian of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (#40047)
• University Archives started archiving selected websites of the academic and business units of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of North Carolina General Administration, and student groups and organizations at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in January 2013. To see if websites for this department or related departments have been archived visit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Harvested Websites (#40417).

University of North Carolina President Francis P. Venable noted in his 1902 annual report that provision had been made for a Law Library. In 1907, he reported that "The Law Library, originally founded by the late Dr. John Manning and called in his honor, has about two thousand volumes and bids fair to be one of the best law libraries in the State."" (Venable's reports are cited in Kemp Plummer Battle's History of the University of North Carolina, Volume II.) Since its founding, the library has served the legal information needs of the students and faculty of the University's School of Law and of the state's legal community and citizens. The library has had a dedicated librarian/director since 1923 and has been administratively independent of the University Library system since 1955. During the administration of Director Laura N. "Lolly" Gasaway, 1985-2006, the library, located in Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, underwent renovation and expansion. In 1993, the Law Library was named for Kathrine R. Everett (LL.B. 1920), one of the first women to graduate from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Everett died in 1992, leaving a portion of her estate to the school.

Records consist chiefly of annual reports; correspondence with faculty members and deans of the School of Law; and materials related to committees and task forces, School of Law and Law Library retreats, and library goals. Also included are files on the 1993 dedication of the library as the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library; compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act; the library's implementation of Total Quality Management; the Bicentennial Campaign; and the Festival of Legal Learning. Files are those of Laura N. Gasaway, director of the Law Library from 1985 to 2006.