Libraries and Media Services records. Artifacts, 1927-2002

Finding Aid

Prepared by Barbara Bass, October 27, 2006; Last Update: June 2022
4 record storage boxes, 1 textile box, 1 media box, 1 slim document box, 1 record album box, 6 cubic feet, 11th floor

Scope and Content: This collection includes library-related artifacts as well as selected examples of old or "dead" media formats collected or used by Libraries and Media Services at one time.

Box 1

1. Polaroid camera: used to photograph catalog copy from National Union Catalog, undated
2. Wooden sign: "Librarian," undated
3. Electric eraser, undated
4. Typewriter platin: used for typing catalog cards, undated
5. Sensor removed from security exit gate in new library, July 2002
6. Software demonstration disks:

• Bibliophile, undated
• Compact Library, aids,1989
• Dialog on Disk, special preview (3 copies), 1988
• Medline demo diskette, undated
• Overhead Express, 1984
• Pro-Cite, 1986
• Sidekick: the desktop organizer, 1988
• Science Citation Index (2 disks), 1988
• Zenith Data Systems: for Z-100 PC, undated

Box 2

1. Early portable database, undated
2. Nursing Literature, undated
3. Computer tape, undated
4. VHS tape from AV Services, undated

Box 3

1. Tail: S-1 "D.N.A. - Blueprint for Life", John Wiley & Sons
2. Tape splice

Box 4

1. Shelflist drawer from card catalog, undated
2. Book label iron, undated

Box 5

1. Book measuring device from A.V. Bailey, book binder, undated

Box 6

1. Marble removed from main lobby escalator screen, July 2002
2. UMI plaque (Early English Books Project), 1988
3. OCLC Marc tape, 1970-1988
4. Carpet sample, 1969?
5. Bar coding project t-shirt, August, 1988
6. Borowitz Collection t-shirt, undated (but likely 1990)

Box 7


1. Tray 1

• Nylon typewriter ribbon, undated
• Counter from library turnstiles, removed in 2002
• Turnstile key, removed in 2002
• Copy card , undated
• Pack of Kent cigarettes, undated
• Rubber erasers for electric eraser, undated
• Metal tabs used on Serial Record check-in cards for new titles, undated

2. Tray 2

• Kent State ash tray, undated
• Last catalog card filed in KSU catalog, undated
• Card stock cutter, undated
• "Book Dog," undated
• Electric pencil, undated

3. Items in the bottom of the box

• Plastic model of printing press, undated
• 3 audio cassette tapes, undated
• Binding tools, undated
• Microfilm reel, undated

Box 8
Folder -- Contents

1. Billing statements from Circulation,1988
2. Book pocket; due-date cards; memo stating end of use, 2001
3. Catalog card stock, undated
4. KentLINK balloons, 1994
5. Letterhead and envelope samples, [1970?]-2000
6. Old dust jackets, 1927, undated
7. Overdue notices, 1980's
8. Phone number change for AVS
9. Photograph: James Geary, Bishop James W. Malone and Vice-Chancellor James A. Clarke sign original agreement for the deposit of the Youngstown Diocese records, April 9, 1976
10. Photographs and negatives: "Dead"Media/Old Technology Exhibit, undated
11. Polaroid photographs of N.U.C. listings: attached to card stock and filed in the card catalog, undated
12. Prints of OCLC records on silver paper used until 1980's