The library boasted its improved policy of accessibility and commitment to education and outreach in 1952. Looking back on its developments, the library stated: “Except in these annual reports, the Clements Library has not publicized its desire to make the Library available to groups of students and visitors interested in learning about the collections. Yet over the years, we have acquired a following of teachers and friends who request use of the Library for meetings and lectures. Our work with junior high-school and high-school students started several years ago with visits from Ann Arbor students who had completed their study of the American Revolutionary War. We invited those students here to learn something about the Library and to see original materials penned by the men and women about whom they had been studying. Nine groups from local schools, numbering about 240 students, came here last season. Gradually news of the availability of the Library for such teaching purposes has spread outside Ann Arbor. We now receive visits from students in Garden City, Ypsilanti, Brighton, Plymouth, Flint, Toledo, Hillsdale, Wayne, Grass Lake, and elsewhere.”
