2.4     Source    The Joint Bank/Fund Library is administered by the International Monetary Fund on

        behalf of both the Fund and the World Bank.  It maintained a reference collection on the

        Presidents of the Bank, which the Library transferred to the Archives in 2000.

3.1     Scope and content     Clippings, speeches, press releases, biographical information, and occasional copies of letters and memoranda by and about Bank Presidents Eugene Meyer, John J. McCloy, George D. Woods, Robert S. McNamara, A.W. Clausen, and Barber C. Conable, Jr.  Pre-presidential material, primarily speeches, is included for McNamara, Clausen, and Conable, and post-presidential material is included on McNamara. 

Material on McNamara makes up the bulk of this collection. Clippings and speeches that were maintained in McNamara’s office as a reference set during his Presidency were brought to the Library, probably by Blanche Moore, one of McNamara’s assistants, who went to work for the Joint Library after McNamara retired.  These items from McNamara’s office formed the basis of the Joint Library collection; consequently, the materials on McNamara are far more complete than those on any of the other presidents.

The series is accompanied by an index to items within the series, arranged by President.  A section of the index refers to items on Eugene Black, which are not present in the collection.

3.3   Accruals    Accruals are not expected.

3.4   Arrangement      Index arranged chronologically by term of President

                                Collection arranged chronologically by term of President

4.1     Conditions of access    Open

4.2     Conditions of reproduction    Records are subject to the World Bank Policy on Copyright

4.3     Language/scripts    English

4.5  Finding aids      File unit list

5.3   Related units of description   WB IBRD/IDA 03, Records of the Office of the President

7.2     Rules or conventions       Internal World Bank Group Archives rules

7.3   Date(s) of descriptions     2003-07-31