A Tribute to Lawrence Clark Powell: An exhibition in the Powell Library Rotunda, June 23, 2002

Lawrence Clark Powell.
"The Library and the Alumni."
The UCLA Magazine, December 1944.
and
John B. Jackson.
"Personalities in UCLA History, Number 2, Lawrence Clark Powell."
The UCLA Magazine, December 1944.

A Convocation at UCLA honoring Lawrence Clark Powell on his retirement, Saturday, June 11, 1966.
1966.

This ephemeral publication was printed by students of the UCLA School of Library Service in their "Bibliographic Printing Chappel."

Bibliographers of the Golden State . . . the Seventh Annual Zeitlin & Ver Brugge Lecture on Bibliography to be given by Lawrence Clark Powell.
1967.

Powell’s lecture on California bibliography and bibliographers was also given at the University of California at Berkeley. It was printed that same year in the "Zeitlin & Ver Brugge lectures in bibliography" series published by the latter’s School of Librarianship.

Miriam Dudley, compiler, and T. S. Oswald, photographer.
UCLA’s College Library. The Powell Library Building.
1977.

Gloria Werner, University Librarian, and The Friends of the UCLA Library.
[Invitation for celebration of Lawrence Clark Powell’s 75th birthday and the Friends’ 30th anniversary.]
1981.

Betty Rosenberg, Everett T. Moore, Norah E. Jones, James Davis, and James R. Cox, compilers, and Marian Engelke, designer.
A keepsake from the UCLA Library and the Friends of the UCLA Library for the friends of Lawrence Clark Powell in celebration of his 75th birthday September 3, 1981.
1981.

University of California. Public Information Radio.
Tomorrow’s History.
1955.

This transcript of a 1955 University of California radio broadcast consists of an interview with Lawrence Clark Powell conducted by Hale Sparks, "the University Explorer." Powell’s response to the initial query regarding the wide variety of materials collected by the Library is still relevant today:

EXPLORER: Dr. Powell, how does it happen that the library doesn’t confine itself to books?

POWELL: If we did, we’d be doing only part of our work. It’s up to us to gather all kinds of material within certain fields. We think it’s our function to preserve such materials, not only for their present value but for their possible worth to the scholars of tomorrow . . . They include such things as manuscripts, archives, photographs, phonograph records, films, business records, newspapers -- all kinds of things that are not books.

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