| LC control no. | n 82099611 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Evans, Luther Harris, 1902-1981 |
| Variant(s) | Evans, Luther H. (Luther Harris), 1902-1981 |
| Associated place | Austin (Tex.) New York (N.Y.) Hanover (N.H.) Princeton (N.J.) Washington (D.C.) |
| Birth date | 1902-10-13 |
| Death date | 1981-12-23 |
| Place of birth | Bastrop County (Tex.) |
| Place of death | San Antonio (Tex.) |
| Field of activity | Library science Political science--Study and teaching (Higher) Political Science--Research |
| Affiliation | University of Texas at Austin Stanford University New York University Dartmouth College Princeton University Library of Congess Columbia University. Libraries |
| Found in | Historical Records Survey. The Historical records survey ... 1938. Luther Harris Evans, 1902-1981, a memorial tribute ... 1982: CIP t.p. (Luther Harris Evans, 1902-1981) CIP front matter (d. 12/23/81) Library of Congress. Processing Department. Studies of descrtiptive cataloging, 1946: Foreword (This report of the Director of the Processing Department, which is addressed to me, might well have been addressed to the library profession of the country ... Luther H. Evans, Librarian of Congress) A Guide to the Luther Harris Evans Papers,1923-1989, via WWW, Nov. 17, 2020 ... (Biographical Note Born is Bastrop County, Texas in 1902, Evans received his bachelor's (1923) and master's (1924) degrees from theUniversity of Texas at Austin and his doctorate from Stanford University(1927). He taught political science at New York University, Dartmouth, and Princeton (1927-1935) and directed the W.P.A. Historical Records Survey (1935-1939) before joining the Library of Congress staff. He served as Librarian of Congress from 1945-1953 and helped draft the Universal Copyright Convention at Geneva in 1952. Involved with Unesco from its inception, he was the director-general from 1953-1958. He was director of international collections at the Columbia University Library until his retirement in 1971. Evans died in San Antonio, Texas in 1981) <https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/00289/cah-00289.html> The Handbook of Texas, via WWW, August 12, 2103 (Evans, Luther Harris; Librarian of Congress and director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization; born October 13, 1902, in Sayersville, Texas; B.A., University of Texas , 1923; M.A., University of Texas, 1924; Ph.D. in political science, Stanford university, 1927; he served as an instructor in citizenship at Stanford (1924-1927), an instructor in government at New York University (1927-1928), an assistant professor of political science at Dartmouth (1928-1930), and an assistant professor of politics at Princeton (1930-1935); in 1935, he was named national director of the Historical Records Survey, a part of the Work Projects Administration; in 1939 Evans was brought to the Library of Congress by Archibald MacLeish, who had recently become Librarian of Congress; Evans was the director of the Legislative Reference Service (1939-1940) and chief assistant librarian (1940-1945); he also served as director of the reference department; while MacLeish took a wartime assignment, Evans was the acting librarian of Congress in 1942-1943; President Harry Truman nominated him for the post of Librarian of Congress, and he was sworn in on June 30, 1945; Evans resigned from the library in 1953 to become the director general of UNESCO; a major accomplishment of his tenure was the preparation of the Universal Copyright Convention; after his departure from UNESCO in 1958, he directed a library project for the Brookings Institution and a study on the education implications of automation for the National Education Association; in 1962 he became director of the international and legal collections of the Columbia University Library; after retiring in 1971 he retained an active interest in many organizations concerned with international cooperation and affairs; he died in San Antonio on December 23, 1981) |
| Associated language | eng |
| Invalid LCCN | no2020134687 |
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