Lane, Margaret T. (1919-2009). Collection, 1948-2003, n.d.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of correspondence, speeches, transcripts of interviews, publicity, and other materials dealing with the Recorder of Documents. This collection also contains (2) reels of microfilm of scrapbooks dated 1948-1975. The scrapbooks contain newspaper articles and miscellaneous publicity. There are also copies of an interview of Margaret T. Lane on cassette tapes.
Margaret Lane donated this collection.
Dates
- 1948-2003, n.d.
Creator
Biographical / Historical
Margaret Taylor Lane was born 6 February 1919 in St. Louis, MO, the daughter of Archer and Alice Jones Taylor. She married Jim Lane and they had a daughter, Maggie, and a son, Thomas. She died 10 May 2009 in Baton Rouge, LA.
Ms. Lane received a degree in library science from Columbia University and a law degree from Louisiana State University. After the Louisiana State Legislature passed an act creating the Louisiana state documents depository system in 1948, Ms. Lane was named the first Recorder of Documents. She continued to hold that position until she retired in 1975. She was active in the Louisiana Library Association, the American Library Association and the Louisiana State Bar Association. LLA named an award recognizing excellence in the field of government information in her honor.
Extent
0.625 Linear Feet (7.5 inches of materials contained in 2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Margaret T. Lane Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Zack Stein
- Date
- 12/19/2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University Archives and Acadiana Manuscripts Collection Repository
Edith Garland Dupré Library
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
400 East St. Mary Blvd.
Lafayette LA 70503 United States
337-482-6031
speccoll@louisiana.edu