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A Pictorial History – Heads of the University Libraries

  • John Culshaw
  • Nancy L. Baker
  • Barbara I. Dewey
  • Sheila D. Creth
  • Carl F. Orgren
  • Dale M. Bentz
  • Leslie W. Dunlap
  • Ralph Ellsworth
  • Grace Wormer
  • Milton E. Lord
  • John B. Kaiser
  • Jane Roberts
  • Malcolm G. Wyer
  • Mabel Colcord
  • Bertha G. Ridgway
  • Joseph W. Rich
  • Ada North
  • Amos Currier
  • Joseph T. Robert
  • Anson Hart
  • Theodore S. Parvin
  • D. Franklin Wells
  • Frederick Humphrey
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