Two Hundred Years of USC's Libraries

19th Century: Starting a College Library | Some Antebellum Treasures | Intellectual Ambitions | A Working Library | The Later 19th Century

20th Century: The Earlier 20th Century | The Recognition of Heritage | The Millionth Volume | Rare Books and Special Collections | Some Recent Gifts & Acquisitions

Foreword | 200 Years of Librarians | Selected References

The College and University Librarians

of South Carolina College and University of South Carolina, 1805-2001
 

1805
Elisha Hammond
1806-1807
Joseph Lowry
1808-1823
Thomas Park
1823-1824
James Divver
1824-1829
Joseph A. Black
1829-1834
M. Michaelowitz
1834-1836
Edward W. Johnston
1836-1839
Elias Hall
1839-1844
Thomas Park
1844-1848
Henry C. Davis
1848-1856
Fitz William McMaster
1857-1862
Beverly W. Means
1862-1873
Charles Bruce Walker
1873-1875
Erastus W. Everson
1875
Richard T. Greener
1875-1877
Louis G. Smith
1877-1880
Vacant--University closed
1880-1883
Robert W. Barnwell
1883-1886
Eliza W. Barnwell
1886-1888
John G. Barnwell
1888-1898
Isaac H. Means
1898-1900
Frank C. Woodward
1900-1912
Margaret H. Rion
1912-1941
Robert M. Kennedy
1941-1942
Robert H. Weinefeld
1942-1944
Lewis C. Branscomb
1944-1945
Robert H. Weinefeld
1945-1946
John Van Male
1946-1947
W. Porter Kellam
1947-1967
Alfred H. Rawlinson
1967-1988
Kenneth E. Toombs
1988-2001
George D. Terry
2002-
Paul A. Willis
 

Sources: M: commemorating the acquisition of the one millionth volume by the University of South Carolina Libraries(n.p.: n.p., [1971]), insert; Edwin L. Green et al., Library: Bulletin of the University of South Carolina, VII (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina, October 1906).

 

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