Collections : [University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library]

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.

The Administrative materials series consists of governing documents, correspondence, minutes, and other materials.

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.

The Administrative Records series documents the work of a number of departmental and university committees and the management of the women's athletics program. The principal files in the Administrative Records series include: Topical File, Advisory Committee on Recreation, Intramurals, and Sports Clubs; Advisory Committee on Women's Intercollegiate Athletics; Board in Control of Intercollegiate Athletics; Budget; Salary and Personnel; Championships and Tournaments Hosted; and Individual Sports.

The Administrative Records series contains minutes, reports, and correspondence pertinent to the development and maintenance of MTS and other Computing Center and Information Technology Division initiatives from 1974 to 1992. Notable records in this series include:

1. The minutes of monthly meetings of "Committee A," which addressed a wide range of issues of concern to the Computing Center staff.
2. An extensive set of printouts from online forum sessions which provide transcripts of detailed, and often technical, discussions concerning various issues in MTS development.
3. "The Future of MTS" includes committee minutes, survey results, and reports that were used to anticipate trends in technology and in the organizational requirements of ITD in the early 1990s.
4. The Information Technology Architecture Committee addressed several critical issues including user access and authorization; core network architecture; email; file systems; connectivity among operating systems; and support for applications and peripherals.
5. Records pertaining to organizational planning meetings from 1989 provide insight into the organizational transition from the Computing Center to the new ITD. And the L3 Project documents a proposal in 1985 to buy a supercomputer, the ELXSI 6400 Multiprocessor System.

The Administrative Records series consist of board and committee meeting minutes and agendas as well as member lists, the chapter constitution, and some administrative correspondence, photographs, and reports and planning material. The Miscellaneous Items folder contains newspaper articles, event information, membership committee lists, speaker series information and other task force and correspondence documents.