The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) was established as a central source of information, advocacy, and technical assistance on the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA). ICWA was passed in response to the number of children that were being removed from their homes by public and private agencies. A 1976 study found that 25-35% of Indian children were being placed in out-of-home care. Eighty-five percent of those children were being placed in non-Indian homes or institutions. ICWA seeks to keep Indian children, who have a unique political status as members of sovereign tribal governments, with Indian families. ICWA sets federal requirements that apply to state child custody proceedings involving an Indian child who is a member of, or eligible for membership in, a federally recognized tribe. The implementation of ICWA has been difficult because of the geographic dispersion of tribes and Indian children, the complexity of the law, and lack of knowledge about ICWA among those who must apply it—social workers, attorneys, and judges, many of whom have never encountered the law. The NICWA library serves as the central clearinghouse for the collection, preservation, and dissemination of documents concerning ICWA. This project will catalog NICWA's special collection of books, articles, scholarly papers, and rare tribal and legal documents and make them accessible to our constituents: social services and legal professionals, scholars, and family members.

The aim of this project is to arrange, describe and catalog four significant hidden collections that together contain a documentary record of the 20th century American folksong revival movement. Caffé Lena is America’s oldest continuously running folk music coffeehouse and a national treasure. The complete Caffé Lena archives comprises 700 hours of field recordings and audio recordings of performances, 150 audiotaped interviews with major folk, country, blues and theater figures, four boxes of Caffé Lena nonprofit paperwork, six boxes of founder Lena Spencer’s original papers and her personal collection of 20 Performer Files, the Lively Lucys Coffeehouse Collection with two boxes revealing an important student-run coffeehouse created with Lena Spencer, and 6,000 photographs taken at Caffé Lena between 1960 and 1968 from the Joe Alper Photo Collection LLC in both negative and print formats. Documented subjects in New York State of national importance include Civil Rights pioneers; New York architectural history; prominent folk and jazz festivals; urban expansion; and the careers of influential performers Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon, and Emmylou Harris. Also included are the personal papers and letters of Lena Spencer relating to the Industrial Workers of the World, the inaugural visit of Robert Kennedy Jr. to Massachusetts, postwar Italian American cultural history, and the New Left era.

The Bill Bly Collection consists of the personal papers of a living author associated with the electronic literature movement, i.e. literary experimentation that seeks to produce fiction and poetry that can be accessed and appreciated only in a digital environment. The materials include computer hardware, software in the form of CD-ROMs and 3.5" floppy diskettes, books and technical manuals, personal notes, and conference proceedings. The collection includes three computers: a Macintosh SE/30, a Macintosh PowerBook 520, and a iBook. The software in the collection includes hypertext authoring tools, Macintosh OS software, an extensive library of hypertext fiction, born-digital materials on floppy diskette, a computer game (Myst) and productivity software. The collection includes a wide range of technical manuals, including guides to using hypercard, OS manuals, and instructional books on visual editing software. It also includes books on the theory and practice of hypertext, and on the writing of hypertext fiction specifically. Many of the personal notes in the collection are stored digitally on 3.5" floppy diskettes and on an 4 gigabyte USB flash drive. There are also extensive notes written on conference proceedings for early hypertext fiction conferences, with the proceedings themselves being a valuable part of the collection.

Mount Vernon Seminary and College dates to 1875, when Mount Vernon Seminary was founded as a high school and junior college for women. By 1996, Mount Vernon College (MVC) became affiliated with The George Washington University and in 1999 they graduated their last class. The grounds and the legacy of Mount Vernon Seminary and College now belong to GW. The University houses undergraduate students on the Mount Vernon campus, as well as several academic programs and athletics fields. Even in the nineteenth century, Mount Vernon Seminary had a diverse, international student body. As the first academic institution of higher learning available to women in the District of Columbia, it attracted the children of diplomats and other international leaders residing in the nation's capitol. Two-thirds of this latest collection of Mount Vernon Seminary and College materials was recently discovered in the basement of one of the University (former MVC) buildings. Additional materials were located in storage in the Gelman Library at The George Washington University. The approximately 690 linear feet contain a wide range of materials, dating from 1875 through 2008. The bulk of the content appears to be administrative files from the office of the president, the development office, and the Board of Trustees; photographs; ephemera; audio recordings; student records; artifacts; items collected by alumnae; and materials relating to three different neighborhoods of Washington, DC.

Located in the basement of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, private homes, and offices, Alabama's Folklife Collections include field recordings, slides, photographs, film, video, digital files, reel to reel tapes, cassettes, and ephemera that document music, foodways, and material culture. Recorded in churches, community centers, occupational sites, public facilities, and homes, these performances, interviews, and other items represent over 30 years of research across the state of Alabama. Sacred Harp singing, blues, old-time fiddle, and African American spirituals are just a few of the musical genres recorded. Traditions in quilting and basket-making are also documented in photographs, slides, and audio recordings. The audiences to be served by these collections include historians, folklorists, ethnomusicologists, filmmakers, cultural geographers, producers, educators, and students. Cataloging these collections as they are accessioned by the Archive of Alabama Folk Culture at the Alabama Department of Archives (ADAH) and History and publishing finding aids to the web will broaden access to these important materials. At ADAH, collections will be available to students, independent and academic scholars, and professionals who can use them for exhibits, teacher workshops, documentary films, educational programs, publications, research papers, books, presentations, and the production of CDs, DVDs, and other media projects.

The archival documents contain institutional records dating back to the late 1700s. It provides an overview of the social, cultural and professional growth of an American medical society and a window onto the state of medicine and public health over the centuries. Also included are records from the Baltimore General Dispensary and many of the county medical societies. The records document the formation and development of the Maryland Medical Society, one of the oldest medical societies in the country. The archives contain historical information on physicians' role in the public health campaigns, professional licensing and review for medical practitioners, the evolution of medical education, and the dissemination of medical knowledge. The portrait collection includes 150 prominent physicians from such well known artists as Rembrandt Peale, Julius Stewart and Charles Byrd King. The artifact collections includes medical instruments from the 19th and 20th Centuries.

California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) is an educational leader at the artistic vanguard of experimental visual and performing arts. This project will make known significant materials documenting the cultural dissemination of new expression from a highly innovative era for Los Angeles as an international catalyst of contemporary art. Specifically, materials include: posters of performances, openings, and other events along with some early planning, non-text materials (e.g., blueprints, sketches, photographs); the correspondence, reviews, planning documents, budgets, grant proposals, press releases, newspaper articles, and audio recordings from the CalArts Contemporary Music Festival (1978-1988) which presented the work of major contemporary and avant-garde composers and musicians such as Elliott Carter, Mel Powell, Joan La Barbara, Diamanda Galas, Kronos Quartet, Morton Feldman, Lou Harrison, and The Harry Partch Ensemble; and the personal papers of Ed Emshwiller, visual artist and filmmaker who was dean of the School of Film/Video from 1979-1990 producing alumni such as Pete Docter, Ralph Eggleston, Amy Kravitz, Gary Trousdale, and Kirk Wise. Emshwiller also created the electronic video opera, Hunger, for the 1987 L. A. Arts Festival, with composer Morton Subotnick. It was his last completed work, presented in October 1989 at the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. CalArts also has the notes, sketches, and plans for Emschwiller's films Hunger and Time of the Heathen.

The Cabrini College Special Collections contains four sets of distinct materials: 1. Records and photographs relating the history of Woodcrest estate are held in the College Archives. Established by the James W. Paul family in 1902 and the family estate of Dr. John T. Dorrance, inventor of the Campbell's Soup formula, Woodcrest mansion was designed by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer. The estate originally comprised 500 acres landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York's Central Park. 2. The history of the College is reflected in its archival records, significant to the history of American higher education, American Roman Catholic history and higher education, as well as the history and culture of women from a variety of socio-economic levels and Catholic ethnic groups in America for the last fifty years. 3. The Religious Folk Art Collection is a collection of religious material objects in various formats including folk paintings, statues, crucifixes, paper ephemera, and votives . Its emphasis is on Christian ethnographic artifacts of the Americas. This collection was established in 2000 for both teaching and research under the auspices of The Rhodes Consultation for the Future of the Church-Related College as supported by the Lilly Endowment. 4. The Cabriniana collection contains a large collection of writing and ephemera from the life of Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American saint, and contains documentation of her canonization.

Original manuscripts, letters, color slides, audio recordings, video recordings, some 3-dimensional objects such as pottery shards, maps, drawings, concept papers, charters, licenses, land titles all stemming from our founder, Rosalie Edge, and our first scientist and curator, Maurice Broun. Rosalie Edge was a fiery woman who in the 1930's took on state and national organizations as well as conservation groups such as National Association of Audubon Societies for not protecting hundreds of thousands of birds being blasted from the sky each migration. Single handedly, she protected Hawk Mountain and removed the shooters, and formed Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. She founded three National Parks, expanded Yosemite. Yet, she always claimed Hawk Mountain as her greatest achievement.

The sixteen collections in the Black Gold cataloging project relate to civil rights, religion, presidential influence at HBCUs, Black college football, the Black Press, African Americans in business, science and technology, and HBCU band culture. They vary in size, scope and medium type and include four Civil Rights collections: the Dr. Patricia and Attorney John Due Civil Rights Collection, 1960-1990; the Priscilla Stephens Kruize Civil Rights Foot Soldier Collection, 1960-2000; the Rev. Charles K. Steele Civil Rights Movement Collection, 1956-1980; and the Wilhemina Jakes-Carrie Patterson Tallahassee Bus Boycott Collection, 1956-2006. Also included is one Black Church collection: the Black Churches in America Collection, 1923-1985. Ten FAMU History collections including the papers of five former presidents and five other popular collections: Nathan B. Young, 1894-1921; J.R.E. Lee, 1926-1944; William H. Gray, 1946-1959; George W. Gore, 1950-1968; Benjamin L. Perry, 1968-1977; the William P. Foster Black Marching Band Collection, 1946-1990; the Coach Alonzo Jake Gaither Black College Football Collection, 1948-1983; the FAMU Football Film Collection, 1955-1983; the Sybil Mobley FAMU School of Business and Industry Collection, 1975-2003; and the FAMU Public Relations Collection, 1947-1999. Also included is one Blacks in Science and Technology collection: the Dr. Kathleen Prestwidge African Americans in Science and Technology Collection, 1960-2000.

Wood type refers to individual glyphs--letters, figures, punctuation, & ornaments--carved in relief on blocks of type-high (0.918?) wood with a smooth face, designed to print with ink on paper. Darius Wells invented the process to mass-produce wood type in 1827. During the 19th c. 3-4 manufacturers were in operation at any one time in the United States. The 1880s were the high point with at least 6 manufacturers in operation. By the start of the 20th c. Hamilton Mfg Co of Twin Rivers, WI had bought out most of its major competitors to become the largest manufacturer of its kind. Hamilton ceased all wood type manufacture in 1984. Today, the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, founded and operated by the Two Rivers Historical Society, is housed in Hamilton Mfg Co's original building. The Museum's approximately 1.5 million pieces of wood type represents a one-of-a-kind collection of printing technology that spans the early 19th to the mid 20th c., and is a unique resource for printers, historians and educators to access what has evolved into the largest collection of wood type in the world. The Silverman-Graham Lee Hidden Collection is comprised of materials from collector Irving Silverman and the estate of Graham Lee, as well as a smaller set of materials originally manufactured by Hamilton but never sold. Although they remain crated and unopened, the materials are likely to date from c1880--1950, with the very real potential for wood types dating from as far back as 1827.

The Kansas City Public Library holds a significant collection for an 1874 enterprise that defined Kansas City to the nation. Established by Boston business interests (Adams, Forbes), the Kansas City Stockyards and a network of railroads played a pivotal role in making this Midwestern “cowtown” a national agribusiness hub. Untold millions of animals on the hoof passed through this location on their way to other markets, second only to Chicago. The archives of the KC Stockyards, only recently acquired, entirely unprocessed, and virtually unknown to scholars, cover the period 1890-1940, when the operation reached its zenith. In 2008 the owner of the historic Livestock Exchange Building (1928) in Kansas City, Missouri, donated a mass of warehoused documents to the Library. Staff of the Missouri Valley Special Collections identified critical pieces in the collection: (1) an estimated 4,000 architectural drawings and blueprints of the stockyards complex, including quarantine areas, holding pens, sewer and drainage systems, slaughter houses, and administration buildings--essentially a city within a city; (2) hundreds of historical documents, including business correspondence, payroll records for a largely immigrant work force, railroad documents, area maps, flood surveys, land abstracts, and field notes for structures; and (3) dozens of vintage photographs apparently meant to document the relationship to the stockyards to the nearby Missouri River.

The Jasper Yeates Law Library—1,043 volumes of published legal works in several languages—contains remarkable examples of early jurisprudence in published volumes from the 1500s through to the early 1800s. Assembled by Yeates (1745-1817), an eminent Lancaster lawyer, Revolutionary War officer, and associate justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1791 to 1817, the leather-bound collection along with the margin notes of Yeates, provides scholars an opportunity to follow the creation of American law and judicial power. Additional collections items held by LancasterHistory.org—including letters, receipts, estate inventories, wills, deeds, and a letter book—provide insight into the Yeates family, local social history, and the business of law from 1743-1870. Legal historian Herbert A. Johnson wrote that, "properly arranged and cataloged, the Yeates library would rival those of Adams, Jefferson, and Chew in its value for legal historians (Imported Eighteenth-Century Law Treatises in American Libraries, 1700-1799, p. 31; 1980). The Law Library was an almost complete collection of works on legal subjects in existence at the time of Yeates' death in 1817. Legal changes brought about by the American Revolution meant that the common law and statute laws of England were in force, except as conflicted with the Constitution of the Commonwealth. This meant that Yeates and his contemporaries were establishing law and precedent practically from scratch.

The Baden-Powell Scouting Papers were donated to Boston University (BU) and contain important correspondence from the founder of the Boy Scouts and leader of the Scouting movement, Lord Robert S.S. Baden-Powell, as well as his wife, Lady Olave Baden-Powell, Chief Guide of the Girl Guides, (the predecessor to the Girl Scouts of America). This is a unique and historical archive, containing letters and papers from the Baden-Powells; including the founder's own letters to his Personal Secretary, Eileen Wade, and extensive correspondence with his first publisher and editor, all dating from the early 20th century--the formative years of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides. Original unpublished correspondence from Lady Olave Baden-Powell to Eileen Wade is contained in nine binders ranging in date from 1912 to 1973. The collection is divided into four general categories. The first three categories are comprised of approximately 6.33 linear feet of material, primarily relating to (1) Lord Robert Baden-Powell (RBP); (2) Lady Olave Baden-Powell (OBP); and (3) the Boy Scouts organization itself, including voluminous materials regarding a controversy involving Baden-Powell, Daniel Beard, and Ernest Seton Thompson, as to who deserved to be credited as the true founder of the Boy Scouts. The fourth category consists of approx. 9 linear feet of memorabilia, framed items, Boy Scout medals, badges and awards, and porcelain items, all relating to the Baden-Powells.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library and Archives holds 2300 individual volumes of whaling logbooks and journals dating from the mid-1700s to 1925. These are the combined collection of the Old Dartmouth Historical Society/New Bedford Whaling Museum and the former Kendall Whaling Museum which closed in 2000. These volumes document whaling voyages that sailed through every ocean on the planet. Many are personal journals kept by captains, officers or foremast hands. In the cataloging process, items that were tucked away or pasted into the books were removed from the volumes and stored separately. These items, all together, number in the thousands. These materials have never been cataloged and are virtually invisible to researchers. They represent a wide array of cultural, historical, biological and artistic items, from newspaper clippings to poetry to manuscript maps, business accounts, personal correspondence, organic materials like botanical specimens (pressed leaves, flowers and seeds) animal parts (fish fins, scales and other organic matter), receipts, recipes, etc. The proper identification, cataloging and promotion of the availability of these materials could add exponentially to scholars—understanding of not only the objects themselves but their relationship to the people who kept them in the first place. Many logs are covered with textiles which are of significance in themselves, as they represent a wide range of historic patterns and weaves.

The hidden collection of Dr. Johanna Spector (1915-2008) is a major repository of primary source materials related to dwindling Jewish communities in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Spector was a professor of Ethnomusicology at The Jewish Theological Seminary (1962-1985) as well as a world-renowned ethnomusicologist, author of several books and articles, prolific lecturer, and producer of four documentary films. Her archive sheds light on the cultural treasures of the nearly extinct Jewish communities of India, Yemen, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Armenia, and the Samaritan people. It is a window into the life of these communities in situ before their dispersal out of their native lands. The collection consists of 120 linear feet of musical notation transcriptions, drafts of lectures, research notes, 2,000 photographs, 2,000 slides, 950 reels of film taken during her travels, papers relating to her films, rough cuts of her four documentaries, 1,000 audio field recordings, and a number of musical instruments that she collected in her travels. The Spector Archives date from the mid-20th century and span a half-century of significant Jewish migrations. This collection, once discoverable, will attract a wide range of scholars and students of ethnography, history, anthropology, and music. It offers a fascinating exploration of non-Western Jewish religious and communal traditions, which developed and persisted over 2,000 years and which are uniquely documented in this archive.

The materials for this project include personal archives of leaders in the field of maternal and child health (MCH) and reports from states on children's health and are housed within the MCH Library at Georgetown University but are kept off-site in 235 boxes (1.2 cubic feet each). These materials chronicle over half a century of work conducted by federal and state health officials, researchers, and policy makers to improve health status and services for children and families across the Nation. The MCH Library is the university-based repository of the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau; however funding levels have precluded anything but a rudimentary examination of the archival materials. The active MCH Library collection consists of over 25,000 items; the cataloging project would augment this by 25 percent, opening the doors to materials that are currently hidden. Content Details and Significance follow: 1. Archives from 5 leaders in the field contain unpublished articles, research, and monographs on programs related to child nutrition, adolescent health, school health, infant mortality, newborn screening and genetic disorders. 2. The Library stores reports prepared by state public health agencies on maternal and child health indicators and the delivery of health services to children and families at the state and community level that pre-date electronic collection of the data.

The George E. Brown Congressional Papers Project will make accessible to a wide range of researchers and scholars one of the most important collections of congressional papers that document the history of the environmental movement in the United States, the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the establishment of the national science, technology and civil rights agendas for the 20th century. Serving as a member and Chair of the powerful House Committee on Science, Space and Technology during his congressional tenure (1962-1971 and 1973-1999), George E. Brown influenced the path of Congress and four presidents (Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Clinton) on matters impacting the protection of the environment, science and technology, space exploration, civil rights, and the Vietnam War. His papers document the history of congressional interactions with the presidential office and federal agencies during four critical periods of 20th century American history: the founding of the EPA, the expansion of NASA, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the ending of the Vietnam War. This proposed project will make this historic and unique collection widely known and enable us to contribute to the research base of one of the most important eras in American political history.

The Ohio River Valley Heritage Collection contains numerous research volumes, including thousands of artistic renderings of objects which subsequently were lost or destroyed, and archeological artifacts of the early inhabitants of the Ohio Valley and other parts of the Appalachian region. The research began on petroglyph sites in Ohio, comparing and contrasting them with petroglyph sites in New York, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Western Pennsylvania. Beyond the petroglyph sites, the materials document burial mounds and other important historical sites with petroglyphs and artifacts. Richard Barnhouse, a talented artist, rendered thousands of drawings of his observations of aspects of these sites, many of which were on private lands and through subsequent development were destroyed or otherwise lost. Mr. Barnhouse also wrote narratives that detail his observations and are included in the materials. All of Mr. Barnhouse's materials are currently held in the possession AppaPhil. The Ohio River Valley Heritage Collection also includes archeological artifacts from about 15000 BCE until 1800 CE. These materials consist of flints, spears, knives, canoes, stones eggs, tools, pottery vessels, jewelry, ornaments, and clothing. These materials are available on in situ on public and private lands, in a local museum, and in private collections of members of a local cultural society. Taken together, the materials reveal the lost stories of those who inhabited the region across about 17,000 years. They compare and contrast time periods and even provide continuity into what appears to be the lost code of these ancient civilizations.

Emory's black print culture material focuses on many aspects of African American life including religion, art, music, literature, theatre, and history from the late 1890s-2008. The array of print material ranges from monographs, serials, and pamphlets to broadsides, sheet music, programs, and posters. One of the primary groups of material to be cataloged are serials, including not only periodicals, newspapers, college and high school yearbooks, but also souvenir journals, minutes, proceedings, and transactions produced by literary, masonic, religious, fraternal, political (including civil rights) and other related organizations, clubs, societies, and associations. The second group of material encompasses print culture of a more ephemeral nature such as broadsides, programs, art exhibition catalogs, and posters. Among this group is a large concentration of black theatre and vaudeville programs and playbills drawn mostly from productions in New York. Theatres in Washington (DC), Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland (particularly the interracial Karamu Theatre), Boston, and Detroit are also represented. Posters advertise a range of black cultural activities including dance, film, literature, music, theatre, and the arts. MARBL also holds hundreds of art exhibition catalogs featuring the works of both well-known and aspiring black artists. These are just some of the examples of the wide variety of black print culture that Emory has accumulated and that remains uncataloged.

Taken as a whole, the collections to be included encompass four decades of unique primary source documents, particularly audio-visual recordings and oral histories, detailing the traditional customs, beliefs, occupational skills, and expressive cultures of cultural communities and the changing social, political and historical landscape of the tri-state region. They are the products of the exemplary work of fieldworkers and leading scholars in folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology and American Studies for the twenty years between 1990 and 2010. Collection materials contribute to scholarly research and help to increase broad-based awareness of the centrality of tangible and intangible cultural practices for the conduct of daily life. Fuller and deeper access to the collections promises enhanced access to raw documentation for use in producing seminars and symposia, print publications, documentary films, recordings, museum exhibits, and multimedia and online exhibitions. Enhancing and expanding access to these collections will greatly enhance and inform scholarship on several subject areas, particularly emerging research into the region's occupational and immigrant communities. The collections have enormous evidentiary value because of their breadth and depth. They capture traditions in change at a period of growing trans-nationalism within the Northeastern United States.

The Committee of One Hundred will create a master electronic finding aid for the Panama-California Exposition Centennial Archive (Archive). This finding aid will include access to historical documents and images that are widely distributed over multiple institutions and individual holdings. The purpose of the Archive is to provide access to material on the making and the execution of the 1915-1916 Panama-California Exposition held in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, and to make available the finding aid and digital surrogates of the historical material itself online before the Exposition's 2015 Centennial. The City of San Diego, the San Diego Public Library, the San Diego History Center (formerly San Diego Historical Society), the San Diego Museum of Man, The Committee of One Hundred, the Friends of Balboa Park, the Spreckels Organ Society, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Irvine Museum of Art, and San Diego State University Special Collections Library have each agreed in principle to contribute material to the Archive. We anticipate discovering unknown material in the hands of individuals. Researchers currently need to visit in person several libraries and pore through boxes of material to uncover the same material scholars before them have found. Primary source material that is not cited in the literature and not included in collection descriptions is practically inaccessible.

The Editorial and Business Records of Eleven Little Literary Magazine Archives in the Poetry Collection feature the administrative and organizational records of eleven diverse poetry magazine archives. Representative of small press poetry publishing across the United States from 1960 to 2010, the archives--all of which have either been donated to or purchased by the Poetry Collection--are composed of literary letters, manuscripts, notebooks, business and production records, and publishing ephemera. The magazines, their locations, and the extent of publishing life are: Fire Exit (Boston, 1968-1975); The Wormwood Review (Stockton, CA, 1960-1999); Chain (Philadelphia, 1994-2005); Manroot (San Francisco, 1969-1981); Drafting (Baltimore, 2004-2005); Boss (New York, 1966-1979); Buckle / Buckle & (Buffalo, 1977-1982 / 1998-2006); Osiris (Schenectady, NY, 1972-2010); Lost & Found Times (Columbus, OH, 1975-2005); Score (Oakland, CA, 1983-1990); and First Intensity (Lawrence, KS, 1993-2007). These magazines represent different socio-aesthetic communities from Feminist to academic avant garde to verbo-visual poetry and have served the careers of poets as different as Susan Howe and Charles Bukowski. Together, their archives document fifty years of poetic history, and the cataloging of these collections will immediately impact scholarship in the field of post-WWII American Poetry.

The collection includes approximately 5,000 Forest Service photographs (prints, slides, negatives) as well as some 8- and 16 mm films and VHS documenting the history of wildland fires and fire-related research over a period of 100 years. Materials include photographs of 50+ years of field and lab-based fire research as well as photographs documenting fire and fuel conditions. These will prove particularly useful as researchers attempt to document change over time in the national forests and other national wildlands in the Rocky Mountain West. Historians of science, the environment, and the American West also will find the materials of interest as they document the history of fire research and the evolution of Forest Service fire policy. Other photographs and related materials (e.g., early fire danger rating meters) document key fire-related events in the region such as the 1910 fires in Idaho and Montana that helped define the Forest Service's approach to fire suppression; early air fire patrols in California c. 1919; the early years of smoke jumping in the Missoula area; work of the CCC in the region; the 1949 Mann Gulch fire in Montana that killed 13 men and led in part to the funding of the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory; and early research related to changes in fire policy, including the 1972 Prescribed Natural Fire Plan for wilderness areas.

Stephen H. Schneider (1945-2010) was the Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Biology, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and a Senior Fellow in the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford. Internationally recognized for research, policy analysis and outreach in climate change, Schneider focused on climate change science, integrated assessment of ecological and economic impacts of human-induced climate change, and identifying viable climate policies and technological solutions. As one of the world's preeminent communicators of complex science, he consulted with eight US administrations and numerous national and international agencies. Dr. Schneider was actively involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), an initiative of the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Org. After decades of work, Dr. Schneider, along with four generations of IPCC authors, received a collective Nobel Peace Prize for their joint efforts in 2007. Professor Schneider's papers consist of Climatic Change editorial records; research files; teaching files; administrative records; correspondence; computer files/email; and audiovisual material. Well documented is the history, content, and implications of climate change science. It is a treasure trove for those interested in understanding and addressing climate change.