2.5 linear feet
The Administrative Files series (1947-1991, 2.5 linear feet) consists of minutes of the center's executive committee meetings, staff meeting notes, and meetings and reports evaluating the center's programs. The executive committee minutes cover a wide variety of topics, including funding, appointments, and research. The staff meeting files often concern future plans for the center.
The Administrative Materials series contains various documents regarding the organization's governance and membership from the mid-1940s to the mid-1990s. It includes several versions of the chapter constitution, membership lists, and financial reports. Minutes, agendas, leadership lists, correspondence, and various other records can be found in the three "Mixed records" subseries. Additional administrative records may be found among the items filed in the "Miscellaneous" folders within the Topical Files series.
25 linear feet
The Administrative Records subgroup (1935-2013, 35.5 linear feet) begins with the Meetings series (1956-2012, 1.5 linear feet), which contain the agendas, minutes and correspondence of the Executive Committee Meetings, the Friends of the Michigan Historical Collection and Bentley Library, the Bentley Library's Administrative Committee, and Staff Meetings. The next set of series are organized by director (see the list above). The first subseries category is the Director's Office/Central Files, which are administrative records generated by the director and the associate director including correspondence, evaluation and planning, fundraising, physical facilities documents, and budget materials. The Staff files subseries, contains staff meetings, staff lists, staff interviews, manuals and farewell parties. The Conferences and Events subseries consists of agendas and speeches and planning material from Bentley-related conferences. Materials in this subseries from the tenure of Francis Blouin include digital materials from the Visual Culture and Archives Symposium held April 4-5, 2013 in honor of Blouin's 32 years of service to the library. The Special Projects subseries includes material regarding intensive activities undertaken by the BHL that often were in some way distinct from core functions. In many cases, a "special project" is one that received outside funding.
The first series, Administrative Records (1936-1983), contains topical files relating to a number of areas of the Society's operation, documenting the work of and on various committees and activities. It also includes articles of incorporation and bylaws, newsletters, correspondence, and records relating to real estate owned by the cooperative.
The series Administrative Records (1957-1997) consists of seven sub-series: Executive Committee, Inter-Center Council, Curriculum Materials, Orientation Materials, Advisory Council, Business Outreach, and Conference Materials. The sub-series Executive Committee documents the administration of CREES since it was founded. Of special interest to the researcher will be the history of the center. The Inter-Center Council was made up of representatives from all of the area centers. Its concern was how all of the centers should work together at the university. Curriculum Materials contains many bibliographies that were used for the courses that were taught. Orientation Materials are the records of a series of orientations that CREES held in conjunction with the Business School for people who were traveling to Russia or East European countries. They introduced people to a basic history of the country, the current political and social situation of the country and the culture of the country. Business Outreach and Advisory Council documents CREES's interest in making ties to the business community. Business Outreach covers the earlier, initial phase of the program, while Advisory Council is the official name that was given to the program once it became an established part of the center. The final sub-series, Conference Materials, documents the planning that went into many of the conferences that CREES sponsored.
The Administrative Records documents some of the daily operations of GTN, its staff. The series includes some correspondence, as well as company advertisements, and newsletters.
3 linear feet
The collection is divided into three series: Grants (1.1 linear feet), Topical (1.2 linear feet), and Correspondence (.7 linear feet). All relate primarily to Organski's prolific research in the areas of political science, foreign affairs, political demography spanning three decades and dozens of international topics.
The A. Geoffrey Norman series dates from 1958 to 1972 and has been divided into three sub-series, Correspondence, General File, and Consortiums File.
