Abstract The material comprising the Mary T. Bires Manuscript Collection was received by the Archives in 1994. Miss Bires was Reference Librarian at Pius XII Memorial Library at Saint Louis University from 1957 to 1979. The bulk of the collection consists of file cards containing excerpts from and citations to articles on various aspects of St. Louis Catholicism. Other material-correspondence, ephemera, and drawings-also reflects Miss Bires' work as a reference librarian and testifies to the strength...