‘A HISTORY OF THE ELEANOR SQUIRE #=HORTAL LIBRARY OF THE GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND wy He ARLENE SMALL Subaitted in partial fulfillcent of the requiremento for the Degree of Naster of Science in Library Seience SCHOOL OF LIBRARY SCIENCR WESTERN REGEAVE UNIVERSITY June 1955PREFACE This paper is an attempt to relate the chronological history of the Eleanor Squire Memorial Library of the Garden Center of Greater Cleveland from its founding in 1950 to the present, 1955. In order to make clear its relationship with the Garden Center, a brief history and framework of that organization is also given. It is hoped that this paper will be of interest as a description of a special library ina relatively new type of organization. The sources which contained information about the Garden Center and its library were of four types: (1) news paper and magazine clippings, (2) the mimeographed Garden Genter Announcement, (3) minutes of the Library Committee Meetings, and (4) the printed Garden Center gf Greater Cleve~ Land Bulletin, This materiel is all availeble at the Garden Genter, I was able to find no other sources. The writing style is necessarily brief. Any further expansion of the material would result in a paper too long for a study of this type. The material is presented in chronological order to produce a historical study, The discussion of present services and future plans is the concluding statement.iv The staff of the Garden Center was most helpful and cooperative in the gathering of material for this paper. I should like to thank especially liiss Viole Briner and lr. Arnold M, Davis for their assistance and encouragement. I should also like to extend my gratitude to iiss Helen il, Fooke for her technical assistance in the writing of this paper.