University of California, Irvine, poster collection, 1965-2011

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Summary

Creators:

Abstract:

The collection comprises over 1,800 color and black and white posters created by various administrative offices, academic departments, and organizations on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus from the 1960s to the present. The posters advertise programs and events held on campus and provide information on course offerings as well as academic and student support services.

Extent:

18.5 Linear Feet (36 oversize folders) and 0.4 unprocessed linear feet

Language:

English .

Preferred citation:

University of California, Irvine, poster collection. AS-050. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.

For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.

Background

Scope and content:

This collection comprises over 1,800 color and black and white posters created by various administrative offices, academic departments, and organizations on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus from the 1960s to the present. The posters advertise programs and events held on campus and provide information on course offerings as well as academic and student support services. The major academic units represented include the Schools of the Arts, Biological Sciences, Engineering, Humanities, Physical Sciences, Social Ecology, and Social Sciences.

Acquisition information:

Acquired periodically from various campus sources.

Processing information:

Processed by Mariko Takemoto in 1999. Processing completed by Ellen Cruz in 2001. Finding aid produced by Carrie Lee in 2001. Additions and revisions made by Cyndi Shein in 2007. Updated by Laura Uglean Jackson and Christine Kim, 2017. Updated by Gabrielle Wood, 2023.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged alphabetically by the subject of the poster, or by the originating campus unit. Within each folder the posters are organized by year, with undated posters on top.

The collection also contains two unprocessed additions: Accession 2014.040. Unprocessed addition, 2014, 1967-1990. 0.4 linear feet Accession 2017.003. Chancellor's Distinguished Fellows series and Bill Maher event unprocessed addition, 1997-2007. 0.1 linear feet

Accruals:

Additional materials are expected.

Rules or conventions:

Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Subjects:: Posters -- 20th century.
Posters -- 21st century.
Names:: University of California, Irvine. School of Biological Sciences -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of the Arts -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Sciences -- Posters
University of California, Irvine -- Poster collections
University of California, Irvine. School of Social Ecology -- Posters
University of California, Irvine. School of Humanities -- Posters

Access and use

Restrictions:: The collection is open for research.
Terms of access:: Property rights reside with the University of California. Copyrights are generally retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright. For information on use, copyright, and attribution, please visit: http://special.lib.uci.edu/using/publishing.html