Brief History of Archives and Special Collections

January 10, 1967.
John E. Fogarty (Democrat--Rhode Island) died in Washington, D. C.

March 14, 1967
After consultation with College officials, Mrs. Luise M. Fogarty notified William Paul Haas, O.P., President of Providence College, that she would donate her husband's papers to the College

October, 1967
John E. Fogarty Papers deposited on campus

May 1, 1968
Providence College received grant from the National Library of Medicine to develop an inventory and other finding aids for this nationally important Collection of primary source material re: the history of health science legislation

September, 1968
Matthew J. Smith appointed as Archivist

January, 1969
Archives moved from Stephen Hall (now Feinstein Academic Center) to new Phillips Memorial Library

April 1969
Administration approved efforts to acquire other Special Collections of individuals and organizations playing a leading role in the political and cultural history of our State and region during the twentieth century

January 15, 1970
College officials resolved to make the College Archives the information center for institutional history and established the oversight College Archives and Special Collections Committee

July, 1970
First inventory, An Inventory of the Papers of John E. Fogarty, Member of Congress, 1941-1967, printed

March 22, 1988
Jane M. Jackson appointed Curator of Manuscripts and Archival Records

March 17, 2008
Russell M. Franks appointed Librarian of Special and Archival Collections

prepared 4/22/96
revised 3/26/2008

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