Contains various research materials gathered about William F. Poole by Charles B. Roden, including published materials and transcriptions of records of the American Library Association, Boston Athenaeum, Boston Medical Library Association, Chicago Literary Club, Chicago Public Library, Cincinnati Public Library, and Mercantile Library Association of Boston. Also some biographical and genealogical essays on Poole, a print of a Poole bust, a Chicago Public Library tribute to Carl F. Roden, and a pamphlet containing Theodore Roosevelt – William F. Poole correspondence.