Frances Bernice Field papers

The papers of Frances Bernice Field consist of correspondence, drafts of speeches, articles, reports, and printed matter related to Field's profession as a librarian and cataloguer. The material is arranged in subject files alphabetically by organization; the folder headings for the most part are those used by Field. Indication of the type of material, whether correspondence, reports, writings by Field, and so forth, has been added. Three boxes are devoted to the American Library Association, and in particular to the Descriptive Cataloging Committee, of which Field was chairman from 1960-1966, and to the revision ofRules for Descriptive Catalogingundertaken by that committee. A fourth box contains materials relating to Yale University and to the Yale Library; the remaining two boxes contain papers relating toAnglo-American Cataloguing Rules, in the revision of which Field was active, to the Joint Committee on the Union List of Serials, Inc., and to other professional organizations. There is a small group of general materials (Box 1) not directly related to the various organizations; these include letters of congratulations on Field's receipt of the Mann Citation for outstanding professional achivement in cataloging (1966), letters of recommendation written by her, letters offering jobs to her, and a small number of personal letters. There are also newspaper clippings, resumés, obituaries, and other memorabilia.