Excerpt from The Hoover War Collection at Stanford University, California, 1921: A Report and an Analysis
The gathering at Stanford University of materials for a special collection on the Great War has now been in progress for two years. Many letters have been received from interested scholars, asking when a catalogue of the collection may be expected to appear. In fact, no real catalogue has been begun and the principal reason for this is that all the effort of those active in the enterprise has been devoted, and is still being devoted, to gathering the material. Moreover, the experience of those in charge of other and smaller collections in the United States has been that early cataloguing results in disappointment and vexation. The Great War presents new and unusual problems of classification, unexpected types of materials are constantly being discovered, difficult to fit into any customary classification, and the result of early cataloguing is confusion.
Nevertheless, the importance to scholars of the materials already secured demands that they be made available, and that some general statement be issued in regard to them. Up to the present, also, no adequate report of the work in progress has been made either to the donor or to the trustees of Stanford University. It is, therefore, here intended to combine a report of operations in the field with a very general analysis of the collection as it stands, that researchers may make use of it, for until now it has been used only by graduate students of Stanford University and of the University of California.
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