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W the State-supported institutions of higher education in Oregon were centralized in 1 9 3 1 under the direction of a single chancellor there was also set up, as a part of that centralization, an administrative unification of all the libraries of the several institutions. This library centralization, largely conceived by Corneila Marvin Pierce, then Oregon State librarian and a member of the first centralized State Board of Higher Education, was made an integral part of the Administrative Code set up and adopted by the Board. Because this was the first time that any State had undertaken to unify the libraries of its State-supported higher institutions of education, the unification naturally attracted a good deal of attention among students of library administration and among many practicing librarians too. One reflection of this interest is the Master's thesis prepared at the Graduate Library School of the University of Chicago by Mildred Hawksworth Lowell , formerly librarian of Eastern Oregon College of Education. Mrs . Lowell 's thesis, published by the Oregon State System of Higher Education in 1942, was devoted to the unification of libraries everywhere but devoted major attention to the Oregon libraries and the Oregon centralization. This thesis was accurately documented and presented the Oregon unification exactly as constituted by the Board in its Administrative Code. T h e unification of the libraries has not, however, from the beginning, functioned as set up on paper. T h e fact that the centralization of the libraries has differed so extensively in practice from the centralization as stipulated by the Board has quite understandably created some misunderstanding in library circles. For this reason, this brief explanation of how the centralization has evolved and is now functioning is presented: Salient features of the unification of the libraries, as set up in 1 9 3 1 , were:

History and Present Status of the Centralization of the Libraries of the Oregon State System of Higher Education