National Book Critics Circle Records
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, meeting minutes, financial papers, membership records, and printed material relating to the National Book Critics Circle. The National Book Critics Circle Awards deliberations and programs are especially well documented.
Dates
- 1975 - 1999
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The National Book Critics Circle Records is the physical property of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. For further information, consult the appropriate curator.
Arrangement
Organized into four groupings: August 1992 Acquisition, September 1993 Acquisition, March 1994 Acquisition, and May 1994 Acquisition.
Extent
3.42 Linear Feet (5 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Biographical / Historical
The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC), founded 1974, is the professional association of American book review editors and critics. The NBCC presents the National Book Critics Circle Awards yearly. Individuals involved in the NBCC include Herbert Leibowitz, Nina King, and Jack Miles.
Processing Information
Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, competing priorities, and whether or not further accruals are expected. The 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.
This collection received a basic level of processing in 2014, including rehousing and minimal organization. Various acquisitions associated with the collection have not been merged and organized as a whole. Each acquisition is described separately in the contents list below, identified by a unique call number and titled according to month and year of acquisition.
Information included in the Description of Papers note and Collection Contents section is drawn from information supplied with the collection and from an initial survey of the contents. Folder titles appearing in the contents list below are often based on those provided by the creator or previous custodian. Titles have not been verified against the contents of the folders in all cases. Otherwise, folder titles are supplied by staff during initial processing.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
This collection includes materials previously identified by the call numbers Uncat ZA MS 264, Uncat ZA MS 387, and Uncat ZA MS 392
- Title
- Guide to the National Book Critics Circle Records
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- by Alison Clemens
- Date
- 2014
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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