| Description | This series contains the correspondence of successive heads of the General Library. Little correspondence survives from the years before 1946, and it appears to be only from 1963 that general correspondence was filed and preserved as a matter of policy. Letters in DF600/3-6 are concerned with exchanges for the period 1946-1955; those in DF600/ 7-26 relate to the donation, purchase and exchange of items for the collection, bibliographical enquiries from members of the public, loans for exhibitions, accommodation and equipment. |
| AdminHistory | The post of head of the General Library, or the Museum Librarian, was located within the Director's Office from the time of the library's foundation in 1881 (when the title was Assistant in Charge of the General Library) until 1975 when the Department of Library Services was set up. The post became Head of Library Services, under whom worked the General Librarian, Zoology Library, Entomology Librarian, Botany Librarian and the Palaeontology Librarian. |