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This series documents OCCA's concern with and activities related to solid waste management in Otsego County. Many files document MOSA, the Montgomery-Otsego-Schoharie Solid Waste Management Authority. MOSA files consist mostly of correspondence, news clippings, and reports. They provide detailed documentation of public dissatisfaction with MOSA and Otsego County's legal struggles with the Authority. There are also numerous subject files on solid waste management in other New York State counties, as well as files on general waste management issues.

This series documents issues such as New York State's system for preventive care; preventing unwanted pregnancy; cartoons on reproductive health; syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and other sexually transmitted diseases; sterilization; teenage pregnancy; a news clipping on infant mortality rates; sex education; parental consent; abortion; and family planning services.

This series contains bills that Taylor and other members of the Assembly of the New York State Legislature sponsored. Taylor's most notable bill was the Rose Resolution #106 which she helped introduce to the Assembly in 1954. The bill passed in 1955, making the Rose the national flower of the United States. Taylor, who was the first woman to be named to sit on the Ways and Means Committee in 1953, introduced bills on education law, city tax on gross income, and even a bill that looked at the Trinity Church's corporation power in New York City.

This series consists of Papish's files on Hydro-Quebec's James Bay project and the efforts of activists to stop the project. It includes news clippings, political cartoons, press releases, meeting announcements and minutes, magazine articles, fliers, brochures, and mailings from organizations involved in the campaign to stop James Bay II. These organizations include P.R.O.T.E.C.T., the James Bay Action Network, the James Bay Defense Coalition, the New York James Bay Network, and the Student Environmental Action Coalition. There are also files with background information on the native populations of Quebec, particularly the Cree and Innu populations.

This series is made up of documents collected and created by James M. Lewis, Assistant to the President of the Univerisity. Items in the series include correspondecne, profiles on faculty, plans for university initiatives, and invitations for the President to other University functions.

The Subject Files of the New York State Chapter of the National Organization for Women include internal and external correspondence, legal materials, memoranda, clippings, news releases, mailings, pamphlets, booklets, minutes, agendas, financial reports, by-laws, and more. The Subject Files document the structure, function, and activities of the state and local chapters. Present are issues of concern to NOW-NYS on subjects including, but not limited to, abortion and reproductive rights, battered women and domestic violence, children, politics, education (including educational opportunities for women, sexual discrimination), racism, lesbian and gay rights, job training, the Equal Rights Amendment and employment.

This series consists of items relating to Alice Green's 1998 Green Party candidacy for Lieutenant Governor of New York State. The series contains documents relating to the Green Party, including newsletters, party platforms, Internet message board postings and media releases. It also includes items from the campaign trail, such as publicity materials in the form of fliers and posters, speech notes and the script of a radio advertisement. One campaign leaflet has been autographed by Alice Green's running mate, Al "Grandpa" Lewis. There are a few post-election items, including the results of the election. All news clippings in this series have been photocopied onto acid-free paper for preservation purposes. The oversized box contains a folder for this series that holds a voter's guide; Green Party newsletter and vote canvassing papers. Also in the oversized box is an envelope containing non-paper campaign materials, such as buttons and nametags.

This series contains minutes and agendas. The earliest minutes are verbatim transcripts of meetings. These transcripts give a full picture of the discussion held during the meetings but lasted only from 1959 to 1960. The regular minutes from 1961 and 1962 have not survived.

These records contain informational material published by the New York StateWide Senior Action Council in the form of guides, booklets and ephemera. Topics such as community services for senior citizens, Medicare, and consumer issues are addressed. The series includes, NYSSAC's Annual Report for 2000, a position paper against HEAP transfer and, notably, both the Sentinel newsletter (1992-1996) and the Senior Action newspaper (1977-1981, 1983-1994, 1996-2000).

This series consists of reports to the University Faculty Senate, correspondence between University at Albany senators as well as material relating to the Taylor Law and collective bargaining issues. Also located in this series is information on the University Faculty Senate by-laws and the Board of Trustees.