University of California (System). Office of the President. Records: Numerical bound folders, 1929-1958

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Summary

Creators:
University of California (System). Office of the President
Extent:
51 cartons (63.75 linear ft.)
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

At various times during the presidency of Robert Gordon Sproul (1930-1958), the administration had occasion to reexamine topics related to the administration of the University, during which process documents were pulled from the regular (or routine) files and assembled into these folders. These were to provide historical and then ongoing documentation of policy issues of particular importance. While they do not necessarily include all material relevant to the particular topic at hand, presumably the selection represents what were considered to be the most important items documenting past action and current thinking on these topics.

Series 3 of the records of the Office of the President consists of part of these assembled files, designated "Bound Folders." They are similar to the folders in Series 4, but filed in file number sequence rather than in alphabetical order. The numerical sequence reflects the filing practice in use in the Office of the President at the time the folder was created.

There is no documentation as to when any particular folder was formed or closed; some files contain materials going back to the 1920s and 1930s and going up to the end of the Sproul administration in June 1958. When an item was removed from a file for inclusion here, a reference was made on goldenrod colored paper indicating what was removed and what bound folder it was moved to. However, since neither the title nor indeed the existence of a folder on any particular topic is predictable, it is often only by consulting a routine file that one can learn of the existence of a special problems folder.

In this series, there are interfiled folders from the office of the Vice President for Business Affairs with a parallel series of file numbers. Often, under any particular file number, there are quite different types of topics, depending upon which office originated the folder. There seems to be no explanation as to how and why these were interfiled; they were left in place on the assumption that these folders are of equal importance since they were interfiled in the offices of origin.

Acquisition information:
University of California. Office of the President.
Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Access and use

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, University Archives, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
(510) 642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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