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This series contains primarily environmental, scientific and legal journals, magazines, newsletters, reports, analyses, studies, and other publications collected by the ASLF. The majority of materials address environmental issues or geographic areas specific to New York State, although the Midwest is well represented. The series is divided into four subseries - serials, New York publications, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation publications and publications about issues outside of New York.

This series includes press releases, weekly summaries, talking points, and speeches. Press releases, though incomplete, cover a broad range of topics from key issues to notification of meetings. The press releases are produced by CSEA and distributed in a paper format and posted on the CSEA website. The weekly summaries, also known as "Hot Sheets," are summary memos outlining the activities of the various CSEA departments for that week. They were distributed internally and offer a glimpse into the week to week work undertaken by the CSEA. The statements/speeches were made by CSEA leadership and officers regarding the union's position on key issues.

The first series contains courses taught primarily between the years 1926-1957 and is arranged according to the college where Leser taught, beginning with the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, and continuing with courses taught at the New School for Social Research, Olivet College and Black Mountain College. The second series, arranged alphabetically, contains materials primarily from courses taught at the Hartford Seminary Foundation and later at the University of Hartford.

This series contains primarily notebooks and some loose notes. The first section is arranged alphabetically by topic, whereas the second section contains notes and notebooks on a variety of topics, arranged chronologically.

The Audio Visual series includes DVDs, CDs, VHS tapes, Beta tapes, DVDPros, and cassettes. The collection contains commercials, videos of guest speakers, such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, marches, speeches, conventions, and protests.

This series consists of 7 boxes, 4 of which contain family photographs and portraits, including childhood portraits of Leser and his siblings, as well as portraits of his parents and other relatives. Of the remaining three boxes, two contain adult photographs of Leser, his colleagues and friends, the family estate in Bonn/Plittersdorf, archeological artifacts and sites, as well as places of interest, including colleges where Leser taught. The final box contains negatives.

Schaefer's connection with the University at Albany began in 1959 when the school was still known as the New York State Teachers College, located in downtown Albany. When Schaefer began the highly successful Atmospheric Physics Program via the Loomis School in Connecticut, he attracted the attention of Dean Oscar Lanford and President Evan Collins of the New York State Teachers College. They asked Schaefer to come teach at their Albany school, and within his first year as a faculty member, the idea for the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center (ASRC) was born. Officially established in February 1961, it was originally located in the old General Electric hangar at Schenectady Airport. Although the former New York State Teachers College expanded to the current uptown Albany campus in the mid-1960s, officially becoming the University at Albany, State University of New York, the ASRC remained centered in Schenectady at that time. Meanwhile, the Atmospheric Physics Program that began at the Loomis School shifted to Albany to be under the sponsorship of the ASRC, where it became the Natural Sciences Institute (NSI). However, since the program's roots were not originally with the ASRC and University at Albany, those records comprise their own series within this collection (Series #5).