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Occupation
  
librarian, author

Education
  
Harvard University

Role
  
Writer

Name
  
Verner Clapp

Nationality
  
American


Born
  
June 3, 1901 Johannesburg, South Africa (
1901-06-03
)

Died
  
June 15, 1972, Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Verner Warren Clapp (June 3, 1901 – June 15, 1972) was a librarian and writer.

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Clapp was the son of American parents, who returned to the US after his birth in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating at Trinity College, Connecticut, he studied philosophy at Harvard University. From 1922 to 1956, Clapp worked for the Library of Congress, where he was promoted to chief assistant librarian in 1947. Clapp played a significant role in both issues of loyalty oaths and microfilming of materials at the Library of Congress.

From 1947 to 1948, he was chairman of the U.S. Library Mission to Japan. He also was president of the Council on Library Resources from 1956 to 1967.

Clapp was married to Dorothy Devereaux Ladd Clapp (September 8, 1901–April 10, 1983).

Awards and honors

  • The Clapp Collection at Japan's National Diet Library
  • 1968 - Clapp was decorated with the Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star (Kun-Nito Zuihosho) by the government of Japan

    • Publications

  • The story of permanent/durable book-paper, 1115-1970. (Restaurator Press, 1972) ISBN 8787220016
  • The Future of the Research Library (University of Illinois Press, 1964)
  • Copyright: A Librarian's View Washington, Copyright Committee, Association of Research Libraries, 1968.
  • The University library and the wise man: addresses by Theodore R. McKeldin and Verner W. Clapp. 1958
  • Current trends in libraries of the United States government Editors: Verner W. Clapp and Scott Adams. 1953.
  • The Constitution of the United States; an account of its travels since September 17, 1787, with David Chambers Mearns. U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937.

    • References

    Verner Clapp Wikipedia
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