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Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department Bill Richards fonds
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Bill Richards fonds

  • F-250
  • Fonds
  • 1971 - 2007

Fonds consists of records relating primarily to the academic and professional life of Bill Richards, and in part to his personal life. Activities, topics, and events documented include Richards’ course development and instruction; academic conference participation and presentations; research projects and partnerships; writing and publications; computer software development, implementation, communications, and analyses; grant writing and applications; employment; and his death and memorial. Records include correspondence, notes, course syllabi, program manuals and data sets, publications and reports, grant applications, conference programs and proceedings, software programs, and sound and moving image recordings.

Fonds is arranged into 7 series:

  1. Personal records
  2. Teaching records
  3. Correspondence
  4. Research
  5. Presentations and writing
  6. Grants
  7. Conferences and professional affiliations

Richards, Bill

Personal records

Series consists of records relating to Bill Richards’ employment at SFU, materials documenting his passing by the academic community, and a memorial service presentation featuring his photography and personal images from throughout his life. Records include correspondence, curriculum vitae, obituaries, and a DVD.

In Loving Memory of William D. Richards, Jr.

Item contains a multi-media presentation that was shown at a memorial service for Bill Richards in Michigan. The presentation is in two parts. One features Richards' nature photographs set to Parce mihi domine (Officium). The other is set to Bob Dylan's Forever Young, and features images of Richards throughout his life, as well as alongside family, friends, and colleagues.

Teaching records

Series consists of records documenting courses proposed, developed, or taught by Bill Richards over his career. It also includes recordings of guest lectures from his classes, and two dissertations by non-SFU PhD students that Richards mentored in social network analysis and his software program FATCAT. Records include correspondence, departmental memoranda, course syllabi and outlines, exams, assignments, evaluations, lecture notes, background literature, audio cassettes, and two dissertations.

Donald Gutstein CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by SFU Communication Professor Donald Gutstein delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on March 8, 1991. The recording is on two audio cassettes. The marked side of tape 1 contains a lecture by an unidentified speaker. The unmarked side of tape 1 contains the start of Gutstein's lecture, which then continues onto tape 2 (both sides). Gutstein lectures on the topic of interviewing.

Steve Kline CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by SFU Communication Professor Steve Kline delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on March 18, 1991. The recording is on two audio cassettes. The lecture begins on the first side of tape 1, which then continues onto the second side. The lecture concludes on one side of tape 2 (the other side is blank). Kline lectures on his Technicians of the Imagination project, the sampling strategy he developed, and processes of statistical interpretation.

Gary Mauser CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by SFU Faculty of Business Administration Professor Gary Mauser delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on March 18, 1991. The recording is on two audio cassettes. The lecture begins on tape 1 (one side only) and continues on tape 2 (one side only).

Bob Hackett CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by SFU Communication Professor Bob Hackett delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on March 25, 1991. The recording is on one audio cassette (both sides). Hackett lectures on methodological principles of content analysis, including the analysis of large bodies of text. Hackett notes at the start of the lecture that he prefers an interactive format to his lecture, encouraging class participation.

John Collins CMNS 805 lecture

Item is a lecture by John Collins delivered in Bill Richards' CMNS 805 course on April 5, 1991. The recording is on two audio cassettes. The lecture begins on tape 1 (both sides) and continues on tape 2 (one side only). Bill Richards introduces himself at the start of the lecture, noting why he is at SFU and what brought him to study in the field of communication. Collins then introduces himself and his work, and lectures on evaluations and evaluation programs as formalized procedures by which to look at programs. It is unclear where Collins is from, but he may be a staff member from Douglas College.

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