Chicago Chemical Library Foundation

In 1944, the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society and the Chicago Chemists Club set up a joint library committee to study the scientific literature needs of the Chicago area. As a result of the work of this committee, a decision was made in November 1946 to establish the Chicago Chemical Library Foundation (3, 10). In the constitution and bylaws of the CCLF adopted December 31, 1947, the object of the foundation is stated as follows (4) ... 

Chicago Chemical Library Foundation, Chicago, 111.. Progress Report, 1951. 

The object of the Foundation was to provide the Chicago area with a more complete collection of technical literature than existed at the time of the group s formation. The technical collections of any organization in the area, provided they were freely open to the public, were to be supplemented. Duplication of holdings simply for the sake of centralizing all chemical literature in one library was considered wasteful and was to be avoided. In addition, the Foundation did not propose to subsidize any institution. Its funds were to supplement where regular budgets were inadequate. 

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