Overview
Daily diary of librarian and author Adele M. Fasick.
Dates
- Creation: 1945
Creator
- Fasick, Adele M. (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the diary created by Adele M. Fasick as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollection consists of diary written when Adele M. Fasick was a teenager, covering school and social activities, and her thoughts about religion. Fasick also comments on the end of World War II.
BIOGRAPHY
Adele Mongan Fasick was born in New York City on March 18, 1930. She grew up in Queens, New York, and graduated from Richmond High School in 1947. A graduate of Cornell (1951), she received an M.A. and M.S.L.S. from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. She taught at the University of Toronto where she served as dean of the Faculty of Library and Information Science.
Adele M. Fasick's publications include the Charlotte Edgerton historical mystery series; as well as The Beauty Who Would Not Spin (1988);Margaret Fuller: An Uncommon Woman (2012); From Boardbook to Facebook: Children's Services in an Interactive Age (2011); and Children Using Media; Reading and Viewing Preferences Among the Users and Nonusers of the Regina Public Library (1977).
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 90-M69
The diary of Adele M. Fasick was given to the Schlesinger Library by Adele M. Fasick (via Joan Brumberg) in 1990.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital Surrogates of the items in this collection are available through the Adam Matthew online database Gender: Identity and Social Change (Access restricted to subscribing institutions).
Processing Information
Updated and additional description added: March 2022
By: Cat Lea Holbrook
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Creator
- Fasick, Adele M. (Person)
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by gifts from the Zetlin Sisters Fund, the Jane Rainie Opel ’50 Fund, and the Gerard Schlesinger Library Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01817
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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