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Correspondence, course outlines, reading lists, programs, minutes, and survey questionnaires on hospital libraries. These papers contain Ernestine Rose's correspondence and course related materials for hospital librarianship which she taught at Columbia University, 1945-1947; her correspondence and teaching materials for the Columbia Conference on Hospital Library Service and Training (November 30, 1945); her correspondence, minutes, and program for the Columbia Institute on Library Service in Hospitals (April 16, 1946); and questionnaires and data summary sheets for a survey of New England and Mid-Atlantic hospital and patients' libraries she conducted for the Library School in April 1947, for the purpose of developing a curriculum to train librarians for medical and patients' libraries. It also includes a copy Ernestine Rose's book, The Public Library in American Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 1954).

This small collection of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed materials is a part of her professional papers and includes draft chapters and notes for her doctoral thesis (History of the Columbia University Library, 1876-1926. New York, c1959) as well as a few items about teaching.