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Watson Library Preparations Department
The Preparations Department readied books for circulation.
Tour of the University of Pavia Library in Italy
Robert Vosper (left) with Romo Lanna (KU 1957/58), USIS library staff in Turin (center), and Dr. Silvano Gevevini (right), Director of the University of Pavia Library, touring the library during the Milan Conference on University Libraries, May 7/8,…
The front porch of the Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick house
Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, left his wife a thirteen-room house and small bungalow filled to the rafters with books upon his death. When Robert Vosper heard of the sale, he and several…
Robert Vosper with library department heads during a farewell party.
Robert Vosper, seatedStanding, left to right: Joseph Rubinstein, ? Redmond, Tom Buckman, Hazel Anderson, Jim Helyar, Earl Farley, Sandy Mason, John Glinka, John Nugent, unknown, Stuart Forth
Robert Vosper walking to work
Robert Vosper walked 1 1/2 miles to work four times daily.
Robert Vosper browsing the stacks
Robert Vosper is browsing through the stacks of Watson Library, one of the libraries which grew tremendously under his nine years of stewardship. Perhaps he is viewing a book from the Ralph Ellis Collection?