East Tennessee State University
University Archives
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-1701

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Title: Elise Draper Barrette Papers
Collection Number: Accession No. 542
Physical Description: 2.25 linear feet (5 boxes)
75 photographs
2 oversize folders
Creator: Elise Draper Barrette
Repository: University Archives, East Tennessee State University

Provenance: The Elise Draper Barrette Papers were donated to University Archives by Betty Jane Hylton, Sherrod Library, ETSU, on June 7, 1999.

Access: The collection is open for research. In compliance with privacy laws, grade books and student records are restricted from public use and are not accessible to researchers.

Processing information: Ned Irwin and Jamee Roberts completed processing and the collection was opened for research in June 2001.

Restrictions: Grade books and student records are restricted from use in compliance with privacy laws regarding student records.

Elise Draper Barrette was born in Jackson County, Tenn. She received a bachelor's degree from Tennessee Technological University and a master's degree in library science from George Peabody College and then began a long career as a librarian and library educator. She was a librarian at Shorter College and David Lipscomb College before coming to ETSU in 1949 as director of the library science program. She remained in this position until her retirement in 1977. She was active in the ETSU Retirees Association and was a founder of the Boone Tree Library Association. She was married to Paul Barrette, also a librarian at ETSU. Mrs. Barrette died on November 19, 1994 at the age of 83.

The Elise Draper Barrette Papers document the life and professional career of Mrs. Barrette as a librarian and as director of the library science program at ETSU. Material includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, speeches, writings, and school-related papers. Major subjects encompassed by the papers include Barrette's academic work at ETSU, library science institutes for training school librarians, her work as a library consultant, and her involvement in Kappa Delta Pi and the ETSU Retirees Association. The collection is arranged into two series as follows: Series I, Subject Files, 1934-1995 and undated and Series II, Photographs, 1956-1985 and undated. Grade books and student records are restricted from use in compliance with privacy laws regarding student records.

Important subjects covered in this collection are:

Series I, Subject Files, 1934-1995 and undated.

Series I consists of materials documenting Barrette's life and career. It especially focuses on her work as a librarian, library educator, and consultant, who trained librarians in the library science program at ETSU for work in school, public, and academic library careers. Her involvement as a faculty member and later an active member of the university's retirement association and as a consultant in the construction of the Washington County-Jonesborough, Tenn. Library are also covered in the series as are events related to the university in general. Materials include correspondence, newspaper clippings, speeches, school papers, and other writings of Mrs. Barrette, course material, photographs, blueprints, and miscellaneous printed matter. The series is arranged in alphabetical order by the subject content of the folders or document type. Oversized materials (primarily blueprints) have been removed and placed in the map cabinet under the accession number 452. Grade books and students records have been placed after the general subject files and are restricted from use by researchers in compliance with privacy laws related to student records.

Series II, Photographs, c. 1952-1985 and undated. Small Photographic Collections Box 5

Series II consists of 54 black and white and 21 color photographs documenting Elise Draper Barrette's life and career. Most of the images are of Mrs. Barrette either individually or in group poses. However, photographs of other individuals, groups, and places are included in the series. Several photographs relate to the library science program and students at ETSU. Other images relate to various people and places, including ETSU officials such as Dr. Burgin Dossett, to President Richard Nixon's visit to campus in 1970, and to the groundbreaking for the Washington County-Jonesborough, Tenn. Library (March 22, 1985). When identified, the individuals have been included the collection index. The photographs have been separated into folders as follows: photographs of Mrs. Barrette individually or with others, photographs of people and places that have been identified (these are then arranged in alphabetical order by name), and photographs of people and places that could not be identified. The photographs, though largely undated, appear to cover chiefly the period from the 1940s to the 1960s. The three folders of photographs are housed in Small Photographic Collections Box 5.

BOX AND FOLDER LIST

Series I, Subject Files, 1934-1995 and undated. Boxes 1-5 and Oversize folders 1-2.

Box 3

1. Grade books, 1951-1952 [restricted]
2. Grade books, 1952-1953 [restricted]
3. Grade books, 1954-1957 [restricted]
4. Grade books, 1957-1960 [restricted]
5. Grade books, 1960-1964 [restricted]

Box 4

1. Grade books, 1964-1966 [restricted]
2. Grade books, 1967-1969 [restricted]
3. Grade books, 1969-1971 [restricted]
4. Grade books, 1971-1973 [restricted]

Box 5

1. Grade books, 1975-1977 [restricted]
2. Student records, 1962-1970 and undated [restricted]

Note: Two folders are housed in map cabinets under accession number 542.

Folder 1

1. The Babbler (David Lipscomb College), July 2, 1937 [removed from Box 1, folder 3]
2. The Collegian (ETSU), February 15, 1963 issue and March 6, 1964 issue [removed from Box 1, foler 4]

3. Special ETSU issue, Johnson City Press-Chronicle, May 15-16, 1963 [removed from Box 1, folder 4]

Folder 2
Washington County-Jonesborough, Tenn. Library blueprints (27 sheets), undated [removed from Box 2, folder 13]

Series II, Photographs, c. 1952-1985 and undated. Small Photographic Collections Box 5.

Folder 1 Photographs of Elise Draper Barrette, c. 1977-1985 and undated