Administrative Records 1935-2013 [subgrp]
(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.
Meetings [series]
Executive Committee Meetings [subseries]
Box 1
December 1956-June 1981
Box 1
July 1981-April 1988
Box 1
May 1988-December 1995
Box 1
1995-2001
Friends of the Michigan Historical Collection [subseries]
Box 1
1968-1972
Box 1
March 1968-December 1986
Box 1
November 1986-December 1995
Box 1
September 1996-October 2003
Box 1
November 2003-February 2013
Box 1
Executive Committee Terms 1972-2004
Box 1
Minutes 1981, 1993-2011
Lewis Vander Velde (1935-1960) [series]
Vander Velde's series contains early material regarding the collecting of university records prior to the formal establishment of the UARP program in 1979.
Committee on University Archives 1935-1939
(2 folders)
Box 2
Executive Committee 1938-1960
Box 2
Fundraising Correspondence 1958
Box 2
General 1936
Box 2
Physical Facilities 1954
Staff Files [subseries]
Box 2
Staff Manual circa 1949
Box 2
Staff Lists 1938-1948
Box 2
Staff Meeting Minutes 1943-1945
Special Projects [subseries]
Box 2
American Imprints Inventory 1938-1940
Box 2
Chamber of Commerce 1946
Box 2
Consumer Cooperatives 1939
Box 2
Fraternities
Box 2
Michigan Counties
Box 2
Michigan Legislature
Box 2
Military Camps Publications
Box 2
Monroe
Box 2
National Youth Association (NYA) 1940
Box 2
Rotary Clubs 1941-1944
Box 2
Sparta MI 1939
Box 2
Works Progress Association (WPA) Historical Records Survey 1936-1938
Box 2
WPA Historical Records Survey 1939-1942
Box 2
WPA -- Michigan Writers Project
Michigan Historical Collection Talks and Conferences [subseries]
Box 2
Michigan Historical Collection Talks 1935-1948
Box 2
1935-1943
Box 2
1938-1940
(Henry D. Brown)
Box 2
1947-1948
Michigan-Ontario Historical Conference 1938
Box 2
Lewis Vander Velde Dinner 1961
F. Clever Bald (1960-1966) [series]
Director's Office/Central Files [subseries]
Box 2
Evaluation Planning Seeking Foundation Support of Michigan Historical Collection of the University of Michigan 1962
Box 2
Executive Committee 1960-1966
Box 2
Physical Facilities Fundraising
Box 2
Physical Facilities General
Box 2
Processing Guidelines
Box 2
Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee 1964-1967
Box 2
Willow Run Airport 1960-1961
Robert M. Warner (1966-1980) [series]
Warner's series includes documentation of the construction of the Bentley Historical Library in the early 1970s.
Director's Office/Central Files [subseries]
Box 3
Correspondence
Box 3
1974-1980
(6 folders)
Box 3
Vice Provost Academic Affairs 1979-1980
Fundraising
Box 3
Correspondence 1966-1969
Box 3
Donor Lists
Box 3
Episcopal Room
Box 3
Executive Committee
Box 3
Willow Run Airport 1970-1977
Physical Facilities
Box 3
Arthur Vandenberg Dedication 1974
Box 3
Building File Architects correspondence and memos 1964-1972
Box 3
Building Specifications 1972
Box 3
Construction Addendum 1-8 1972-1973
Box 3
Construction Minutes 1972-1973
Box 3
Bentley Library Dedication 1973
Box 3
Delta Sigma Delta Room Dedication 1975
Box 3
Donor Memorial Room Correspondence 1969-1972
Box 3
Fund-raising brochures 1967
Box 3
Furnishings 1972-1973
Box 3
Groundbreaking and Cornerstone correspondence and documents 1972
Box 3
Landscape Plan 1972
Box 3
Planning Minutes 1967-1973
Box 3
Plans and Sketches 1969
Box 3
Prentiss M Brown Room Dedication 1977
Box 3
Sculpture 1973
Box 3
Correspondence and data on Special Features 1972
Box 3
Stack Plans 1972
Box 3
Staff Suggestions 1968-1972
(2 folders)
Box 3
Starr Room Dedication 1977
Drawer 3
State of Michigan House Resolution No.319 Tribute to the Dedication of the Bentley Historical Library 1974
Box 4
Administrative Material
Box 4
Department Organization and Duties
Box 4
Staff Classifications 1972-1973
Box 4
Salary Data
Box 4
Statistics 1962-1978
(2 folders)
Box 4
Evaluation Planning and Budget 1977-1979
Special Projects
Box 4
Alumnae Project 1977-1979
Box 4
Atlas Committee
Box 4
Bicentennial Project
Box 4
Book Conservation Workshop 1978
Box 4
Conservation 1980
Box 4
County Records Survey/Township Records Survey 1978-1979
Box 4
Demographic Data 1968-1971
(2 folders)
Ethnic Grant 1973-1979
Box 4
1973-1974
Box 4
1974
Box 4
Clippings Press Releases 1976-1977
Box 4
Quarterly Reports 1978-1979
Box 4
Reports on European Fieldwork (Poland)
Box 4
Ethnic Committee
Box 4
Immigration 1972
Box 4
Haber Project 1978
Box 4
Legislation Libraries
Box 4
NEH Grant Review Committee
Box 4
Records Management Planning Documents
Box 4
Radio Program
Box 4
Temperance and Prohibition Papers -- NHPCR Grant
Box 4
Temperance and Prohibition Papers -- Correspondence
Box 4
Writings by Bentley Staff
Topical Files
Box 5
Administration Manual Materials
Box 5
Art Collection 1978-1982
Box 5
Audio/Video Reports
Box 5
Bentley Record of Arrangements on Meetings and Programs 1972-1980
Box 5
Certification of Archivists
Box 5
Computerized Accessioning System 1975
Box 5
Crapo Papers Theft 1979
Box 5
Delta Sigma Delta Guest Book 1975-1985
Box 5
Gerald Ford Visit November, 1977
Box 5
Guest Register (Major Events) 1967-1985
Box 5
Guide to the Use of the Collections
Box 5
Machine Readable Archives -- CLUBB 1979
Box 5
MHC Procedures
Box 5
MHC Public Relations
Box 5
MHC Staff Humor
Richard Doolen (1980-1981 Acting) [series]
Director's Office/Central Files [subseries]
Box 5
Correspondence -- Vice Provost and Academic Affairs and Plant Extension 1980-1981
Francis X. Blouin (1981-2013) [series]
Among Blouin's records are planning documents that include results of five-year reviews of the library for 1986, 1991, and 1996, and there are a number of files documenting the evolution of archival education at the University of Michigan through the 1980s. There are also papers and correspondence regarding work in 1993, which resulted in a special issue of the American Archivist devoted to diplomacy. Also of interest is documentation of the Vatican Archives Project, which resulted in Vatican Archives, An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documents of the Holy See.
The 2014 accession of Francis X. Blouin's files is divided into two additional sub-series. The first, Topical Files, 1974-2013 (3.8 linear feet), consists of a mixture of administrative, events and special projects materials, arranged alphabetically. This arrangement reflects how these files had come to be maintained in the director's office. The second, International, 1991-2012 (1.2 linear feet), contains materials related to the library's international programs and is arranged alphabetically by country. Files relating to William Wallach, Associate Director, 1958-2010, bulk 1978-2010, (2.5 linear feet), are arranged in two sub-series: Topical, 1958-2010 (1.5 linear feet) and Building Addition, 1998-2004 (1.0 linear foot).
Director's Office/Central Files [subseries]
Administrative Records
Box 6
Budget Material, 1981-82-1995-96
(15 folders)
Box 79
Budget Material 1996-2003
(8 folders) [Executive records restricted until July 01, 2023]
Michigan State University, Micro-Marc Computer Software Grant 1984-1987
Box 9
NARA Appraisal Project 1989
Box 9
Penn-Central Railroad Project 1984-1985
Box 9
Preservation Microfilming Proposal (NEH) 1985
Box 9
Rackham 50th Anniversary 1986-1988
Box 9
Records Management Policy Development 1988
Box 9
Richard, Gabriel Commemorative Volume, 1984-85
Box 9
SI Electronic Records 1997
Richard, Gabriel: Intellectual Life on the Michigan Frontier: The Libraries of Gabriel Richard & John Monteith
Box 10
Index cards
(2 boxes)
Box 10
Galley proofs
(5 folders)
Vatican Archives Project
Box 11
Correspondence Files 1984-2005
(21 folders)
Box 11
Proposal, Grants, accounts, etc. 1978-1986
Grant Files
Box 11
American Friends of the Vatican Library 1988-1989
Box 11
Delmas Foundation 2002-2004
Box 11
Getty Grant Project 1988-1995
Box 11
Guggenheim Foundation Initiative 1994-1996
Box 11
Lilly Endowment, Inc. 1992-1995
Box 11
Mellon Foundation 1992-1996
Box 12
National Endowment for the Humanities 1990-1994
Box 12
National Endowment for the Humanities 1988-1991
(2 folders)
Box 12
Office for the Vice President of Research (University of Michigan) 1986
Box 12
Samuel Kress Foundation 1991
Topical Files
Box 12
Ademecum Procedures Library and Archive circa 1986-1996
Box 12
Agreements 1988-1992
Box 12
American Academy in Rome 1988-1989, 2002
Box 12
Archivi and Computers Article 1993
Box 12
Archives Nationales, Paris Archives Nationales 1978, undated
Box 12
Archivio Segreto Vaticano (ASV) Inventory 2004
Box 12
Beth's Early Work 1991, 1994, undated
Box 12
Canfield Lecture 2001
Box 12
Cataloging Records GEAC Library System 1987
Box 12
Cataloging Manual and Authorities 1987
Box 12
Comitato Scientifico CDF 1996-2003
Box 12
Dinner for Leonard Boyle 1998
Box 12
Fabbrica di San Petro 1994-1995, undated
Box 12
First Worksheet 1987
Box 12
History of Art Section 1987-1988
Box 12
Homeland Foundation Conference 1992
Box 12
International Business Machine (IBM) Project 1992-1994
Box 12
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America 1992-1996
Box 12
Kristeller, Paul Oskar circa 1993, undated
Box 12
Location Maps undated
Box 12
Notes on Bulk undated
Box 12
Oxford University Press 1995-1998
Box 12
Publication, An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documents of the Holy See (Supplement 1) 2003
Box 13
Publications
Box 13
Vatican Archives: An Inventory and Guide to Historical Documents of the Holy See 1998
Box 13
Propaganda Fide undated
Box 13
Photographs (black and white) undated
Box 13
Photographs (negatives) undated
Box 13
Photographic Slides circa 1990-1991
Box 13
Post info 1922, undated
Box 13
Project Books Purchased undated
Box 13
Project for Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1998-2004
Box 13
Project Description (English and Italian) 1989
Box 13
Project Publicity 1989-1991
Box 13
Reference File 1986-1991
Box 13
Report 1990
Box 13
Reverend Leonard Boyle Obituary circa 1999
Box 13
RLIN Catalog Records/RLIN System 1991-1996
Box 13
Rockefeller Archive Center materials on Vatican Library Project (W. Bishop) 1998
Box 13
Rome Trip 1987
Box 13
Scope and Content undated
Box 13
Source Notes 1992, undated
Box 13
Sister Claudia Carlen 2004
Box 13
Staff Matters 1989-1997
Box 13
Trinity College Dublin 1996, undated
Box 13
Vatican Library undated
Box 13
Web page text undated
Examples from Project (photocopy material)
Box 14
ASU Agostiniani II
Box 14
Bandi Sciolti Notations 1425-1571
(2 folders)
Box 14
Bandi Sciolti Notations 1561-1846
Box 14
Collectoria 85 inventories
Box 14
Collectoria 477 Spole to Monastery 1367
Box 14
Index of Indexes 1901
Box 14
Index Fondo Albani 267 Clement IX
Box 14
Index Servita Minyta v. 1
Box 14
Institutional Miscellaneous
Box 14
Inventory Eccelesstical Yearbooks 14 c (Juste Miscellaneous N. 5342 II)
Box 14
Inventory and Part Fondo Albani
Box 14
Inventory Fondo Basiliani
Box 14
Inventory and Documents Miscellaneous Arm II
Box 14
Rubricellae Camera Apostolica
Box 14
Rota Decisiones 1600-1608
Box 14
Supplications, Reg 267
Reference Files (photocopy material
Box 14
ASU and Research
Box 14
Avignon
Box 14
Barbiche "Apostolic Chancery"
Box 14
Barberini Mss
Box 14
Calendar of State Papers UK
Box 14
Chancery Henry III
Box 14
Congregation of the Council
Box 14
Curial Pronouncements
Box 14
Guide du Vatican
Box 14
Inventaires du Vatican
Box 14
Kristeller IterItalieum
Box 14
Maria Grazia Pastura Ruggiero, "La Computisteria generle organizza la consultabilitia del proprio archivio alla fine del secolo XVIII"
Box 14
Oliver Poneet, "Segereteria dei brevi"
Box 14
Peter Partner, Papal Financial Policy
Box 14
Papal Registries UK
Box 14
Roman Families
Box 14
Ruspoli Docs on Handel
Terrence J. McDonald (2013-) [series]
Conferences and Events [subseries]
Online
Aeon Symposium 2016
(The University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library, Special Collections Library, and William L. Clements Library are pleased to announce an Aeon Symposium dedicated to Connecting Uses, Pushing Limits among current and prospective institutional users of Aeon. From early adapters to newest users, participants will have the opportunity to affirm what's best and challenge the rest.)
This interactive workshop will allow participants to gain experience in creating reports from Aeon data. Presentations will include basic report creation, to more advanced topics, such as translating management's questions into queries that Aeon can answer and overcoming obstacles. The format of the workshop will be a combination of short presentations and collaborative time for participants to ask questions and work on their own reporting challenges.
Speakers: Matthew Adair, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan; Kate Hutchens, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan; and Katie Gillespie, Atlas Systems
Friday Keynote--Kate Hutchens and Moira Fitzgerald
The recent proliferation of Aeon implementations has taken place during a time when many libraries and archives have experienced a decrease in resources even as we strive to increase efforts towards outreach, discovery, digitization, and instruction. Aeon's tailored functionality has given us a specialized tool to manage these activities and many more. Equally important, this software enabled many of us to more efficiently collect data about this work, which has become increasingly important in the prevailing culture of assessment at many of our institutions.
But what's next? What can/should we be doing with this data? How can, or should, it influence our approaches to not only conflicting priorities and complexities in our service operations, but also security, cataloging, collection development, assessment, and outreach? How do professional concerns around privacy,preservation, and staffing resist such influence, and where might it be appropriate to push on these concerns? How has the advent of "unmediated" requesting changed our relationships with our users?
We aim in this session to explore how the area of special collections public services is evolving, and to question how Aeon and similar systems serve us in meeting the changing needs of our remote and onsite patrons.
Speakers: Kate Hutchens, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan and Moira Fitzgerald, Yale University Library.
Annotated chronology of University of Michigan events 1986
Box 61
Arts of Citizenship Broadway Bridge Project 1997-2000
Box 61
Audit 2006
Box 61
Building reference manual: BHL Building No. 439 (Energy Star Report) 2000
Box 61
Collection analysis 1985-1986
Box 61
Collection development policies 1989
Box 61
Collection development policies 2006
Box 61
Computer support cooperative with Center for the Education of Women 2004
Box 61
Core work responsibilities and priorities 2002
Box 61
Exhibits 1989-1998
Box 61
Freedom of Information Act Officers 1984
Box 61
Fumigator 1988
Box 61
Institute for Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) Grant for Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Development 1998-2001
(2 folders)
Box 61
Masters of forms, undated circa 1985
Box 61
Meridian Circle Telescope and Dome Repair 2010
Box 61
Michigan Newspapers Project 1978-1998
Box 61
MIRLYN cost estimates 1992-1998
Box 61
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEA)
Box 61
Enhancing Access to North American Archeological Collections 2002
Box 61
Research Fellowship Program for Study of Modern Archives 1986-1993
Box 61
Philippine-American Relations at the Turn of the Century: A Scholarly Digital Repository 1999
Box 61
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)
Box 61
Appraisal System for Modern Documentation 1986-1990
(2 folders)
Box 61
The Archival Implications of Electronic Communications 1989
Box 61
The Impact of Electronic Communications on the Historical Record 1989
Box 61
Sienna Heights College Consulting 1995-1996
Box 61
The Uses of Electronic Communication to Document and Academic Community 1990
Box 61
Parking 1989
Box 61
Penn Central Records 1991
Box 61
Preservation microfilming 1989-1991
Box 61
President's house inventory 1980-1989
Box 61
Registration of Copyrights in Bentley Publications 1974-1978
Box 62
Report on Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Michigan (John Dann) 1996
Box 62
Research Libraries Group (RLG): Archives Preservation Microfilming Project 1990-1994
Box 62
Research Libraries Information Network (RLIN) 1982-1993
Box 62
Research paper topics 1989
Box 62
Responses to survey requests 1979-2004
(3 folders)
Box 62
Scene Savers/PPS Group Film Digitization Project 2010
Box 62
School of Information and Library Science (SILS) 1987-1991
Box 62
Staff orientation procedure 1989
Box 62
Statistics comparing Bentley to the Clements and Special Collections 2008
Box 62
Thompson Gale Microfilm Agreement 1991-2007
Box 62
Tour guidelines 1985, undated
Box 62
Toxic waste site issue 1994
Box 62
University Library (ASIS, Vernon Tate and Power Collections) 1983-1989
Box 62
University of Michigan Extension Service Courses 1958-1976
Box 62
Voluntary support report 2010
Box 62
Yakel: Curating the Next Generation Finding Aid 2.0 2006
Box 62
Zarko, Chet 1996-2003
Building Addition
Box 62
Architecture Interior Design Planning 2002
Box 62
Barrier Free Design Exception 2001
Box 62
Building Program 2002
Box 62
Design Development Manual undated
Box 62
Facility condition analysis 2000
Box 62
Fire protection: Stack areas undated
(2 folders)
Box 62
Furniture / kitchen estimates 2001-2004
Box 62
Infrastructure assessment 1998
Box 62
Infrastructure upgrade analysis 2001
Box 62
Meetings and memos 2001-2004
(4 folders)
Box 63
Miscellaneous drawings and project manual 2001-2004
Box 63
Project Manual 2002
Box 63
Shelving shop drawings 2003
Box 63
South Stack Shelving Fit Out 2004
Box 63
South Stacks 2004
Box 50
Design Development Review 2002
Meetings [series]
Box 63
Administrative Committee of the Bentley Historical Library 1989-2012 [subseries]
Box 63
Minutes and agendas 1989-2012
(2 folders)
Box 63
Staff meetings of the Bentley Historical Library 1972-2008 [subseries]
(0.3 linear feet)
Box 63
Minutes and agendas 1972-2008
(10 folders)
Historical Society of Michigan [series]
Box 64
Annual meeting 1959
Box 64
Constitution 1935-1967
Box 64
Correspondence 1935-1979
(15 folders)
Box 64
Financial reports 1955-1957
Box 64
Financials 1956-1959
Box 64
General, brochures, miscellaneous 1947-1966
Box 64
Historical Development Committee 1958-1959
Box 64
Museums Conference 1959
Box 64
Northern Michigan Historical Conference 1958-1959
Box 64
School Activities Council 1959
Non-Donor Correspondence 1935-2005 [series]
The next series in the Administrative Records subgroup is the Non-Donor Correspondence (10 linear feet), which is arranged in three alphabetical accessions, each of which covers a period of time. This series contains several kinds of correspondence: there are letters to and from individuals who eventually become donors and financial contributors, as well as letters seeking publication permissions. Most notably, there is professional correspondence between archivists: letters exchanged between leading archivists and Lewis Vander Velde in the 1930s and 1940s, Robert Warner during the late 1960s and 1970s and by Francis X. Blouin in the 1980s and 1990. Taken as a whole, this correspondence demonstrates the growing international influence of the Bentley. Until 1987, the Non-Donor Correspondence included some reference inquiries, after 1987, these records were maintained separately by the Reference Archivist. There is also a folder compiling twenty-five years of thank you notes from various colleagues and professionals from around the country.
1935-1968 [subseries]
Box 16
A-Ho 1935-1967
(29 folders)
Box 16
Audit Reports 1959, 1963
Box 16
Automotive Industry Men 1960
Box 16
Book Dealer Forest Sweet 1936-1959
Churches 1940-1941
Box 16
Baptist Church 1940-1957
Box 16
Congregational Church 1938-1947
Box 16
Evangelical Lutheran Church 1939-1940
Box 16
Presbyterian Church 1939-1957
Box 16
Cook, Arthur O. 1935-1940
Box 16
Couzens, Frank 1939-1940
Box 16
Dunlop, Rose (Mrs. Robert) 1953-1958
Box 16
Galloway, Clyne E. 1939-1946
Box 16
Gray, Gordon 1957-1958
Box 16
Historical Records Survey Publications 1943
Box 16
Historical Societies and Collections--Michigan 1935-1959
Box 64
[Historical Society of Michigan
Box 17
Hoover, Herbert 1958
Box 17
Hoo-M 1935-1967
(6 folders)
Box 17
Maumee Valley International Historical Convention 1940
Box 17
Michigan Association and Business Organizations 1946