Abstract Robert William Orr was born June 9, 1905 in Winterset, Iowa. In 1946, Orr was named Director (1946-1967) of the Iowa State University Library. The collection (1942-2009) contains the papers of Robert William Orr, including related to his career at the Iowa State University Library and the rough drafts and final manuscripts of The Library at Iowa State — an Informal Account of the First One Hundred Years of the Iowa State University Library along with several...