{"id":160,"date":"2015-02-19T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/?page_id=160"},"modified":"2016-11-17T19:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T00:47:30","slug":"cla","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/the-people\/cla\/","title":{"rendered":"The Colby Library Associates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1935, the Colby Library Associates were a long-standing, vital force in the acquisition of Colby&#8217;s rare and unique collections that became Special Collections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" style=\"width: 427px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/02\/CLQ-back-matter-v1n1-CLA.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1066 \" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/files\/2015\/02\/CLQ-back-matter-v1n1-CLA.png\" alt=\"CLQ back matter v1n1 - CLA\" width=\"427\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Text inside back cover of the Colby Library Quarterly, 1943. Pottle and Weber founded the CLA in 1935. Rush was the college librarian and CLA secretary to 1945.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Student scholarship<\/strong>: Read a <a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/cla-history\/\" target=\"_blank\">brief history<\/a> of the Colby Library Associates written by Meghan Kelly, Class of 2017, 2013-2014 Presidential Scholar.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300\"><em>THE COLBY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES AS DONORS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The CLA were involved in many of the acquisitions highlighted on this site, either directly or behind the scenes. Personal relationships within the CLA membership played a large part in building and promoting the collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1935, the Colby Library Associates were a long-standing, vital force in the acquisition of Colby&#8217;s rare and unique collections that became Special Collections. Student scholarship: Read a brief history of the Colby Library Associates written by Meghan Kelly, Class of 2017, 2013-2014 Presidential Scholar. THE COLBY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES AS DONORS The CLA were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":405,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/1900"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-history-of\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}