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This is an alphabetical letter series of the General Reference collection. The General Reference Collection was created by archivists to hold information on campus history that is not part of any organic record group. The collection contains material from a variety of outside sources, excepts from newspapers and other publications, press releases and promotional materials, and loose university records.

The files in this series pertain to the creation and work of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA) and to the various political groups and legislative bills which supported or opposed the creation of the Agency. The series includes publications by the APA and other groups, legislative files, correspondence, maps, memoranda, and news clippings. The bulk of the series covers the years 1967-1978 and 1990-1997, with some materials dating from 1956-2002. Legislation pertaining to the Adirondack Park Agency can also be found in Series 9 of this collection.

This series contains materials pertaining to the Board of Directors and the administration of the Alumni Association, including founding documents, such as the charter and constitution. The earliest Board of Directors meeting minutes are bound volumes. By the end of the 1970s the minutes are loose notes belonging to specific individuals. The minutes may also include such supplemental materials as correspondence, agendas and financial papers. The annual report was available for the Annual Meeting, which was open to all Alumni Association members. Financial records for the Alumni Association are found in this series in ledgers, financial statements and Treasurer's reports. Loose items from bound volumes have been removed and stored in separate, appropriately labeled folders.

This series contains correspondence pertaining to book club business, organizational history, laws, and membership information.

This series consists of the constitution and by-laws and annual reports of the Clubs (1960-1998). The constitution and by-laws provided the organizational structure of the Clubs. It includes printed copies of the articles of incorporation and by-laws of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (1924, 1930, 1933, 1938), certificates of incorporation and by-laws (1944, 1946, 1950, 1962, 1973), and proposed revisions to state by-laws (1967, 1974).

The Administrative series contains: an account book, budget and financial reports, by-laws, charters, correspondence relating to the administration of the Club, and meeting minutes. The materials provide information regarding the structure of the Club, how meetings were conducted, and the election of officers.

The Administration Series includes records created by the Club during the operation of its usual activities and programs include committee reports, newsletters, and meeting minutes, which compose the bulk of the series. There is a small amount of correspondence as well as versions of the Club's constitution and by-laws..

This series contains correspondence, meeting minutes, annual reports, memoranda, enrollment statistics, inventories, and other records that pertain to the administration and faculty of the Department of Information Studies and its past iterations. This series documents routine activities such as internal and external faculty and departmental correspondence, faculty meetings, admission information, curriculum development, annual reports, grants and fellowships offered through the department, special projects conducted, and enrollment statistics. Prominent dates include the foundation of the Library School (1926), the development of the Master's Program (1949-1950) and later the Doctorate Program (1968-1971), the school's union with Rockefeller College (1986).

The Administrative series consists of Board and business meeting minutes, constitutions, proposed changes to the constitution, annual and executive meeting files, files of some Club Presidents, some show planning, finances, and budgets. It houses some of the earliest records about the organization. This series also contains information about membership, but not in depth information on specific reporters.

The Administrative series consists of Board and business meeting minutes, constitutions, proposed changes to the constitution, annual and executive meeting files, files of some Club Presidents, and rules and regulations.

This series consists of audits, budgets, by-laws, expense reports, meeting minutes, anniversary proclamations, and files of the president, secretary, and treasurer. Membership lists, rosters, and directories are also included in the series.

In addition to containing the 1942 Charter for the Beta Eta Chapter, this series also includes documents for governance, financial information and meeting minutes. There are files about the Dr. Edward Cooper scholarship, newsletters and general correspondence as well as materials from social functions, such as an initiation sign-in book and initiation programs.

This series contains records relating to the administration and activities of the Kappa Delta Sorority. Meeting minutes, membership and initiation lists, constitutions and by-laws, and other materials document the sorority's functioning from shortly after its founding, in 1899, to 1978. There are no minutes for 1903-1923, 1933-1934, 1941-1950, or 1975-1980. This series also includes sorority traditions, publicity materials, and some materials relating to alumnae.

This series is comprised of log books, receipts, account books, correspondence and other administrative documents. Two oversize boxes are present in this series that contain pins, a Pullman Company tea towel, a plate with the inscription The Empire State Express, as well as cash books.

This series contains records relating to the administration and activities of the Chi Sigma Theta Sorority. Meeting minutes, membership and initiation lists, constitutions, pledge books and other materials document the sorority's actitivites. Although there are some older materials, the bulk of this series documents the 1960s through the 1980s. This series also includes sorority traditions, publicity materials, and some records relating to alumnae. Please note that while the collection contains composite photographs of all sorority members across several decades, the dates are not inclusive.

This series contains administrative and subject files for the Phi Delta Sorority. It includes such materials as constitutions, initiation ceremonies and traditions, membership lists, newsletters, financial records and more, documenting the sorority's activities throughout its history. There are also similar materials relating to Phi Delta alumnae.

This series contains records dating from 1889 to 1996, with the exception of one bond agreement dating from 1863, prior to the creation of the YWCA of Albany, NY. It includes account reports, annual reports, bills of sale, program operating expenses, correspondence, grant applications, insurance policies, incident reports, membership ledger books, mortgages, deeds, bonds, and the history of the YWCA.

Series 1, Administrative Files, includes official documentation of the boards including meeting minutes, agendas, treasurer reports, and correspondence. It contains the board meeting minutes and agendas from 1961 to 2000, but with several gaps in time. The series also contains information about the LWVRC's annual meetings (1966-1999), membership (1942-1998), by-laws and policy, and tax returns (1967-1985), again with several gaps in time.

The Administrative Files series contains annual reports and meeting minutes of the League of Women Voters of Schenectady County. The collection also contains budget, public relations, social events, and state board announcements.

The bulk of the series is the Citizens Budget Commission's (CBC) minutes from 1932 through 1973. These include minutes from the executive sessions of the board of trustees, adjourned meetings of the board of trustees and the nominating committee, and the minutes of the annual meetings of members of the CBC. In 1978, the biographies of the trustees of CBC were compiled and photographs of many of these individuals are included. The series is arranged by topic with the minutes in chronological order.

This series is made up of administrative documents concerning the day-to-day functions of the Department of English, including departmental memoranda, class enrollment profiles, five-year plans, budgetary printouts, meeting minutes, and correspondence. This series contains a number of files related to curriculum development, including course syllabi, proposals for new classes and class descriptions, as well as revisions to the undergraduate English major, the Doctorate of Arts and the Ph.D. program. This series also includes a number of files documenting winners of the Leah Lovenheim awards, given yearly for the best piece of fiction or poetry by a University at Albany undergraduate. Some of the Lovenheim records date back to 1943. This series also contains materials related to institutes and programs administered by the department, such as the New York Writers' Institute.

The Administrative Files series consists of organizational records which document the activities of the board. These records include annual reports (1940-2001), monthly meeting minutes (1941-2001), and president's correspondence (1963-2001, not inclusive). Agendas and treasurer reports are often interfiled with the meeting minutes. This series also includes the by-laws that govern the LWVAC along with changes to those by-laws. Lists of the board of directors and the members of the organization over the years can be found in this series as well. Material regarding campaigns for membership and finance drives for various years are also included. There are also minutes from meetings of the Inter-League Organization (ILO) which consisted of the Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenactady, and Shenendahowa Leagues of New York State (1975-1986).

The Administrative Files follow standard practice using the name of report type, originating committee, special event or external entity as the subject heading. The deepest historical contents are found in folders for Annual Reports (beginning 1944), Black Book (1945-56), Budgets (1954-56), Federation Membership (1947-51), Membership Committee (1942-47), and Organization of the Federation (1941-48). It should be noted that much financial, membership and special events information not included in these Administrative Files can be found filed with the Meeting Minutes at which the topic or report was discussed or in the Annual Reports.

This series consists of materials relating to the daily and administrative operations of CASDA and information on the association's programs and research. It also contains two publications produced by CASDA. Most of the administrative papers relate to programs and date from the 1950s and 1960s.

This series consists of materials relating directly to the operations of the Center for Community Studies and to some of its faculty and staff. The series includes: the records of the activities and programs committees; minutes of the American Red Cross, Albany, New York chapter; Board of Directors of the Council of Community Services; the Inter-group Relations Committee; the Siesta Symposium of 1966; the Subcommittee of the New York State Citizens' Council Field Committee; the Superintendents' Advisory Committee; records pertaining to faculty and staff meetings; alumni; personnel; and recruitment strategies. Other items found in this series include budget materials, Executive Committee meetings, expense accounts, grants, memoranda, and records concerning the Temporary Committee on Graduate Admissions.

The administrative files contain executive meeting minutes from the Conference's earliest days through the late 1980s. During those years, members kept the minutes in large, hardcover binders; the archivist removed the papers from those binders for preservation purposes and placed them in acid-free folders in the order in which they appeared in the original binders. In the 1990s, Conference members began filing their meeting minutes under the heading of "chronological files" along with meeting announcements and correspondence. The chronological files became series two of this collection and researchers will find more meeting minutes there. However, there is a gap in the Conference's meeting minutes from 1989-1994.

This series consists of materials relating directly to the operations of the School of Education, and to some of its faculty and staff. There is one folder of records concerning the New York State Citizen Committee for the Public Schools dating from 1953, but most of the series date from the 1960s-1980s. The records of the activities and programs committees and minutes of the Dean's meetings are to be found here as are records pertaining to cabinet meeting notes, department chairs, and the minutes of faculty meetings. Other items found in this series include budget materials, by-laws, general correspondence, grants, memoranda, long-range planning, activities outside the university and teaching load statistics.

This series includes information that explains the administrative practices of the Freedom Forum. Included are by-laws, contracts, and financial data. The personal notes of board members reveal arrangements made for lecturers. This series also includes member and officer rosters.

This series includes information on the Committee for Progressive Legislation's first administrative year, including the proposal for organization within the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Albany. The series contains organizational bulletins beginning in 1969. The bulletins contain information for members and other interested parties in relation to lobbying events and meetings. Their newsletter bulletins inform their followers of what issues they were currently working on as well as what their direction for the following month would be. This series also contains several membership lists, photographs of group members at events, as well as financial records. Unfortunately the financial documents are very scarce, however they do reveal administrative personnel problems. Also in this series is a sparse but informative file of the group's meeting minutes. The minutes reveal the anticipated future of the organization over the years. Much of the correspondence between Committee for Progressive Legislature members consists of offering solutions to the various organizational disagreements and problems. The decisions reached by Chairperson Kay Dingle are documented, along with other membership information, in the organization's newsletters.

This series consists of McLaren's administrative papers. It is predominantly composed of memorandums and correspondences documenting his involvement with a large number of different committees throughout his tenure at the University Albany. Most notable in size are the applications for the Husted Award, an annual award granted to the most outstanding undergraduate senior in science, which he was involved with from 1977 until his retirement in 1989. This series also contains his general papers, some teaching materials, and several booklets on the history of the University at Albany's Uptown Campus.

Though this series has meeting minutes from the main executive committee of the CWA, they are very sporadic; only one or two sets of minutes exist for some years. There is a much stronger selection of meeting minutes from the local's own executive committee. There are also financial papers featuring a long run of reports and statements from the local's certified accountants. Constitutions in this series contain information on the process of the union's affiliation with CWA beginning in the mid-1980s.

Contains budget records, administrative correspondence, receipts and disbursements, tuition records, and other records related to financial management.

Contains analyses, correspondence, bulletins, memorandums, minutes, and reports. The files were kept by Alfred Werner, as Director of Athletics, Joseph Garcia, as Coordinator of Athletics and Director of Athletics, as well as coach of the varsity soccer and wrestling, and Leona Rhenish, as Chairman of Women's Collegiate Athletics. The files include information for administration, sports associations, and programs. The bulk of the materials document the 1960s and 1970s.

This series contains files pertaining to planning decisions in Albany County, New York. There are a wide variety of documents covering county-level planning -- e.g., open space plans, county land use regulations, transportation plans for I-87/Northway, as well as plans involving the airport and the Pine Bush Preserve. There are also plans for specific municipalities within the county: villages, towns, and the City of Albany, itself. For the City of Albany, there are housing studies, community buying guides, economic development strategies, community improvement program reports, land use inventories, downtown development plans, to name a few of the most common document types.