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[Lawrence Clark Powell] began his career at the Los Angeles Public Library. He joined UCLA in 1934, as a junior assistant in acquisitions. Moving up to become only the second chief librarian in the UCLA library's history, he built a collection of 17th-century materials and increased the overall collection from 400,000 to 1.5 million volumes. From 1944 to 1966 he served as director of the Clark Memorial Library at UCLA.

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Key topics
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Librarian;
History;
Library history;
Author;
Powell
ERIC Subject
Library Services;
Librarians;
Library Science;
Authors;
Autobiographies;
Library Personnel;
Information Services;
Library Schools
Subject
Deaths;
Personal profiles;
Writers;
Librarians;
Scholars;
Books;
Schools of library and information science;
Libraries;
17th century
Business indexing term
Location
Los Angeles California; Arizona; United States--US
People
Powell, Lawrence Clark
Company / organization
Name:
University of Arizona
NAICS:
611310;
Name:
Arizona Daily Star
NAICS:
513110;
Name:
Public Library-Los Angeles CA
NAICS:
519210
Classification
61131: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
Title
Librarian/author Powell dies at 94
Author
Rogers, Michael; Oder, Norman
Publication title
Library Journal; New York
Volume
126
Issue
7
Pages
18
Number of pages
1
Publication year
2001
Publication date
Apr 15, 2001
Publisher
MSI Information Services
Place of publication
New York
Country of publication
United States
Publication subject
Publishing And Book Trade, Library And Information Sciences
ISSN
03630277
CODEN
LIBJA7
Source type
Trade Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Obituary
ProQuest document ID
196806878
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/librarian-author-powell-dies-at-94/docview/196806878/se-2?accountid=208611
Copyright
Copyright Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier, Inc. Apr 15, 2001
Last updated
2025-11-18
Database
ProQuest One Academic