Daria Book Club records
Collection
Identifier: ACCN 1791
Scope and Contents
The Daria Book Club records contain scrapbooks, correspondence, financial documents, meeting minutes, and study materials.
Dates
- 1949-2007
Creator
- Daria Book Club (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.
Conditions Governing Use
The library does not claim to control copyright for all materials in the collection. An individual depicted in a reproduction has privacy rights as outlined in Title 45 CFR, part 46 (Protection of Human Subjects). For further information, please review the J. Willard Marriott Library’s Use Agreement and Reproduction Request forms.
Historical Note
The Daria Book Club was organized in January 1955. The club had originally been formed in 1951 as the Aurora chapter of the Delphinian Society, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to promoting education and personal development for women by providing a course of study and guidelines for conducting seminars on the materials provided. By the time the Aurora chapter's charter expired in 1954, attendance had fallen dramatically, and the remaining members decided to investigate other courses of study. The group chose to begin a course on Great Books offered through the University of Utah Extension Division. The name "Daria" was selected, from a Persian word meaning "one who seeks knowledge." The first season of the Daria club was conducted under the auspices of Professors James Jarrett and Donald Heiney, with readings which included selections from Shakespeare, Plato, Thoreau, Voltaire, Wordsworth, Ibsen, Flaubert, and Freud.
Extent
7 Box (7.75 linear feet)
Abstract
The Daria Book Club records (1949-2007) contain scrapbooks, correspondence, financial documents, meeting minutes, and study materials. The club had originally been formed in 1951 as the Aurora chapter of the Delphinian Society, and was organized as the Daria Book Club in 1955.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Boxes 1-6 donated by Mary Calame in 2000.
Box 7 donated by Jan Frost in 2011.
Box 7 donated by Jan Frost in 2011.
Separated Materials
Photographs have been transferred to the Multimedia Division of Special Collections.
Processing Information
Processed by Karen Carver in 2003 and 2011.
Creator
- Daria Book Club (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Organization)
- Title
- Inventory of the Daria Book Club records, 1949-2007
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Karen Carver
- Date
- © 2003 (last modified: 2018)
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid encoded in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections Repository
Contact:
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu
295 South 1500 East
Salt Lake City Utah 84112 United States
801-581-8863
special@library.utah.edu