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Odum Library (Valdosta State University)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Campus Building Plans

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-4-5-5
Scope and Contents

Contains drawings, plans, and blueprints for Valdosta State Campus. Many are proposals that were never carried out or were altered in some way.

Dates: Acquired: 2006-01-23

Collection Development Policy

 Collection
Collection number: UA-15-9

Frank R. Reade Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-3
Scope and Contents Reade's papers invite leisurely perusal to appreciate his humor and erudition.  His papers are expansive, covering topics from his family and genealogy to administrative correspondence to correspondence with and photographs of the famous men and women of his day.  The collection includes books, journals, correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, drawings, photographs, and realia.  The correspondence ranges from a manuscript of a Civil War era diary by Frank Smith Robertson (1841-1926), Reade's...
Dates: 1841 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1948

Instructional Materials Center

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-15-11
Scope and Contents

Contains images of Odum Library staff from 1995.Contains images of staff/faculty baseball game, DRAGON bar code display, and various slides. From the 1990's.

Dates: 1990's

Interlibrary Loan

 Collection — Binder 1
Collection number: UA-15-12
Scope and Contents

Periodical Holdings List, June 1997

Dates: 1997

Library Administration

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-1
Scope and Contents

This collection contains administrative records for Valdosta State's Odum Library from  the 1970s-1980s. Most of it relates to the Academic Committee on Libraries, Academic Council, and the American Library Association. The majority of the information is memos and meeting minutes.

Dates: Acquired: 2012-05-23; Majority of material found in 1970's-1990's

Library Affairs Committee

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-21-1
Scope and Contents

This Collection contains the records of the Library Affairs Committee from the late 1970s early 1980s. The first box holds meeting minutes, and memos dealing with financial affairs of the library. The second box deals with the Library Affairs Subcommittee Research/Impact Funds.

Dates: 1970's-1980's

Library Annual Reports and Self Studies

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-16-1
Scope and Contents

Annual Report of the Library/Self-Study for Valdosta State University Library 1925-1970, and for Odum Library 1989-2007, 2011.

Dates: 1925 - 2019

Library AV Materials

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-15-10-1
Scope and Contents

Contains introductory multi-media materials for Odum Library. Involving a Odum Library Orientation film "Where's Howard?", and a Tour of the VSC Library slide show.  Circa 1979. Also included unmarked cassette tapes possibly blank.

Dates: circa 1979

Library Building

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-22
Scope and Contents

Contains the history of Valdosta State's Library including pictures and papers about Powell Hall which served as library for the school until Odum Library was built. It contains papers from the library built in the 70's including floor plans and correspondence concerning the interior alterations and problems. Project manuals, correspondence and plans for the Odum Library Addition are also included as well.

Dates: Acquired: 2004-06-24; 1970's

Library Dedications

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-18-1
Scope and Contents

Contains Dedication pamphlets from the Libraries of Valdosta State. In 1941 Powell Library was dedicated. Powell was in use until 1972 when a new library was completed that would eventually be named Odum Library. In 2004 Odum dedicated a new addition that doubled the size of the library.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1941,1972, 2001, 1991

Library Events

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-15-20-1
Scope and Contents

This collection contains items relating to Odum Library Events and Receptions mostly banners, though there is some correspondence planning events.

Dates: 1935-1948, 1993-2022

Library General Files

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-19-1
Scope and Contents The Library at Valdosta State has gone through a number of changes over the years. This collection is a large one, that displays the ways that the school's library has grown. The Accession Records list the books that South Georgia State Normal College, and later Georgia State Woman's College added to their library from the years February 1913 to November 1958. The collection contains general files for the Library from 1969 onward, listing staff meeting minutes(1969-1994), memos,...
Dates: Acquired: 2001-04-19; 1913 - 2018

Library History

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-15-15
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information relating to the history of the library.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1970's, 1989-2017

Library Instruction

 Collection — Box 1
Collection number: UA-15-13-1
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials produced by the Library for specific cours/classes during the 1990s.

Dates: 1990's

Mary Remer Parramour Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-68
Abstract Mary Remer Parramour (Dec. 30, 1929 – Dec. 24, 1996) was born in Valdosta Georgia. She was the second child of Dinah Roberts and Redden Lamb Parramore. She graduated from Valdosta State College among the first class in 1951. Worked as an office manager for Dr. Joe Brannen for over 20 years. Civil and social associations she belonged to included the Valdosta Junior Service League, the Cotillion Club, Valdosta Mystery Club, the Reader’s Forum, the Lowndes...
Dates: 1947 - 1973; Acquired: 2002-05-09

Odum Library 50th Anniversary

 Collection
Collection number: UA-15-20-2
Scope and Contents

This collection has informational posters from exhibit on 1st floor, South Lobby during Spring Semester 2022.

Dates: Event: April 2022

Odum Library Banners and Signs

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-15-17-1
Scope and Contents

Contains Banners, Signs, and Posters that have been hung in Odum Library. These might be informational, directional, or event related. They date from 1993-present day.

Dates: 1993-present

Ramona Ice Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: MS-56
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one framed photograph of the north side of Odum Library by Ramona Ice. There is aalso a box with information about camellias and research about Valdosta's Camellia Trail.

Dates: Acquired: 2014-08-26

S. Walter Martin Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Collection number: UA-2-1-5
Scope and Contents Dr. Sidney Walter Martin was the fifth president of Valdosta State College. He served from 1966-1978  in which time he continued the building trend that had begun under Dr. Thaxton.  During his presidency, Dr. Martin dedicated Odum Library, the Fine Arts Building, the Education Center, the College Union, and three dormitories: Langdale Hall, Lowndes Hall, and Georgia Hall.  He also reorganized the college and started graduate programs.  These physical changes mirrored social changes that...
Dates: 1962 - 1991