Henry Scholberg papers

Henry Scholberg, B.A. University of Illinois (1943); B.S. University of Minnesota (1954); M.A. University of Minnesota (1962). Librarian, Columbia Heights High School (1954-1961). Librarian, Ames Library of South Asia (1961-1986), Instructor (1961-1966), Assistant Professor (1966-1974), Associate Professor (1974-1979), and Professor (1979-1986), University of Minnesota.

Henry Scholberg was born May 29, 1921 in Darjeeling, India. He graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.A. in History (1943), and from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Social Sciences (1954) and an M.A. in Library Science (1962).

Professor Scholberg first came to the University of Minnesota in 1944 as a participant in the Minnesota Experiment in Human Starvation conducted by the Laboratory of Physiological Hygiene. And after serving as a librarian and an athletic coach at Columbia Heights High School in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, he returned to the University in 1961 as a librarian and the first director of the Ames Library of South Asia. The library had recently been donated to the University of Minnesota Libraries by its founder, Charles Lesley Ames. Professor Scholberg was promoted from instructor to assistant professor and associate professor and then full professor in 1979. He held the position of Director of the Ames Library until his retirement in 1986 as professor emeritus.

During Professor Scholberg’s 25-year tenure at the Ames Library, the collection grew from 25,000 to over 105,000 volumes, maps, newspapers, microfilm, and microfiche covering the social sciences and humanities of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Professor Scholberg was a noted author of bibliographies, articles, reviews, and papers on India.

Henry Scholberg died August 4, 2012 in New Brighton, Minnesota.