gr03568.xml Social Security Department: Public Institutions Division: Supervisor of Institution Libraries: An Inventory of Its Institution Library Information at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN.

Government Records

 Finding aid encoded by Sonja Isaacson and Meagan Kellom January 2021 and February 2026 Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota. Supervisor of Institution Libraries. Institution Library Information. 1940-1948. Materials in English. For each institution, includes a list of officers, library schedule, notes made during visits by the supervisor, and often a map of the grounds. Also includes material relating to the division's supervision and to the management of institution libraries in general. 0.2 cubic feet (19 folders). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. CATALOG HEADINGS Topics: Institution libraries -- Minnesota. Organizations: Minnesota. Division of Public Institutions. Minnesota. Department of Social Security. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. Supervisor of Institution Libraries. Institution Library Information. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession number: 977-37

 Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 990017037770104294

 Appraisal Information:

Rehoused: Originally in looseleaf notebooks for each institution; duplicates discarded except for copies filed in a "general information" folder (there was no such folder or notebook originally).

 RELATED MATERIAL

Correspondence of the supervisor (1928-1942) listed under Control Board.

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION 109.I.13.3BGeneral information: List of mileage from St. Paul to the state institutions, to be used by division employees, undated and November 1949.

This undated list also includes mileage from Minneapolis, and between various institutions.

 Book stock, June 30, 1945.

A volume count for all institutions.

 Appointments for local librarians, approximately 1946.

List of institutional librarians with dates of appointment; covers the period from 1932 to 1946.

 Department of Administration travel regulations, February 1, 1946. Outline of lecture on bibliotherapy, undated.

Apparently used in psychiatric nursing courses at several state hospitals.

 Outline of institutional librarians’ duties, undated. Outline: The hospital's library department, undated. Hospital Book Guide, Volume 7, No. 3, July 1936.

Quarterly publication of the Division of Hospital Libraries of the American Library Association.

 Memorandum, July 29, 1947,.

From Mildred Methven, supervisor, to Mrs. Hazel C. Daniels, assistant to the director of the public institutions division, containing suggestions for improvement or development for each of the institutional libraries. It was intended to assist Methven’s successor.

 Statistics relating to libraries for patients in state hospitals for the insane, September 1935.

Compiled by the supervisor.

 “Hospital Libraries – Today and Tomorrow,” by Perrie Jones, October 1944.

Reprinted from Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, Volume 32, No. 4,

“Occupations and Careers,” undated.

A bibliography prepared by Sarah Allen Beard, Consultant, School Libraries and Library Work with Children and Young People.

 Gillette Hospital: Notes, made by the supervisor on visits to the institution’s library, 1941-1945.

There are similar notes for each institution.

 Faribault School for the Feeble-Minded: List of officers, doctors, meal hours, etc., undated. Library schedule, 1946-1947.

Scotch tape around edges, wrinkled.

 Main campus map, undated.

Tape around edges.

 Notes, 1940-1947. Hastings State Hospital: List of officers, etc., undated. Map of library and description of services, undated.

Taped edges.

 Notes, 1940-1948. Fergus Falls State Hospital: List of officers, etc., undated. List of wards, undated. Notes, 1940-1947. Course of Study, Psychiatric School of Nursing, Fergus Falls State Hospital, undated.

Includes a classification of mental disorders, with study notes.

 Notes on lectures by Dr. Kamman, course on “Reading and the Mental Patient,”April 1941. Letter, from Fergus Falls librarian to supervisor enclosing a patient’s map of the grounds, September 16, 1942. Fragment of newsletter, “Weekly Pulse,”August 9, 1952.

This may not belong to Fergus Falls.

 Faribault School for the Deaf: List of officers, undated. Library schedules, 1941-1947. Map of grounds, undated. Notes, 1940-1947. Cambridge State Hospital: List of officers, undated. Map of grounds, undated. Library schedule, 1940-1941. Notes, 1940-1948. Anoka State Hospital: List of officers, undated. Notes, 1940-1947. Faribault Braille and Sight Saving School: List of officers, undated. Library schedule, 1940-1941. Notes, 1940-1948. Sauk Centre: List of officers, undated. Library schedules, 1941-1942, 1947. Map of grounds, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Shakopee State Reformatory: List of officers, undated. Library schedules, 1942, 1944-1945. Notes, 1940-1947. Stillwater State Prison: List of officers, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Capsule history of prison library taken from annual reports, undated.

Includes citations.

 List of subscription magazines, approximately 1940. St. Peter State Hospital: List of officers, undated. Library schedules, 1940-1947. Map of grounds, undated. Plan of library service at main building, undated. Notes, 1940-1947. Course description: Affiliate Course in Psychiatric Nursing. St. Cloud State Reformatory: List of officers, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Notice to relatives and friends relating to correspondence, magazines, newspapers, visits, packages, money, etc. Rochester State Hospital: List of officers, undated. List of wards, undated. Library schedule, 1940-1941. Map of grounds, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Course of study: Principles of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Nursing for Junior Cadets and Affiliates, undated. Red Wing State Reformatory: List of officers, undated. Class schedule, 1945-1946. Notes, 1940-1947. Moose Lake State Hospital: List of officers, undated. Library schedule, undated. Map of grounds, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Outline of (nursing) course lectures, 1946. Owatonna State Public School: List of officers, undated. Notes, 1940-1948. Library and class schedules.

Notes on 3 x 5 cards.

 Ah-Gwah-Ching, Walker State Sanatorium: List of officers, undated. Map of grounds, undated. Library schedule, 1940-1941. Notes, 1940-1941.