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Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department Series
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In fine form: the Canadian Book of Form Poetry

Series consists of records relating to Braid's work on co-editing, along with Sandy Shreve, a publication on Canadian form poetry. Records include notes and contributions by form type, correspondence with writers, including PK Page, and drafts.

Committees

This series comprises records pertaining to the establishment, execution of responsibilities, integration, and dissolution of committees; as well as task forces formed to support the Board of Governors in achieving its objectives. It encompasses standing committees and ad hoc committees. The records include committee meeting agendas, minutes, and notes; memos; reports; budget projections; project plans; correspondence; contracts; bargaining agreements; proposals; curriculum vitae and applications; policies and procedures; financial statements; terms of reference; promotional materials and articles; lists of award recipients; student surveys; and presentations.

Professional consulting files

As an expert in his field of study, Beyerstein was often called on to provide a professional opinion in legal matters. This work involved preparing reports, and providing professional opinions in the courtroom and for special committees. Records include reports, correspondence, reference material, invoices, and receipts.

Files are arranged chronologically.

Correspondence and personal records

Series consists of records relating to Beyerstein's personal and professional life. This includes correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, students, and organizations and committees; as well as collected cartoons, and copies of Beyerstein's obituaries that were included with the records.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of material:

• Correspondence (sub-series 1)
• Personal records (sub-series 2)

Turning left to the ladies

Series consists of records relating to Braid's work on her book Turning Left to the Ladies. Records include drafts, correspondence with her publisher and editor, and drafts for the editor.

University service and career records

The series consists of records relating to Beyerstein's academic and professional career.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of material:

• Committees and professional activities (sub-series 1)
• CV files (sub-series 2)

Memorial pamphlets

Series consists of two pamphlets associated with the Arthur Erickson memorial at Simon Fraser University, which took place on May 20, 2009.

Community activism records

Series consists of records arising from Hari Sharma's community activism work that includes helping to mobilize people toward the formation of the Indian People's Association of North America (IPANA) through his leadership, writings, and talks; systematically addressing racism in British Columbia through his committee work with the British Columbia Organization to Fight Racism (BCOFR); standing in solidarity with Indo-Canadian farmworkers in the Fraser Valley and members of IPANA in the formation of the Canadian Farmworkers Union; uniting IPANA with other groups in the community to form the Komagata Maru Historical Society with the impending 75th anniversary of the Komagata Maru incident in 1989; playing a leadership role in the creation of Non-Resident Indians for Secularism and Democracy (NRISAD) when IPANA faded away, and then helping NRISAD expand its focus to the entire South Asian region as it evolved into the South Asian Network for Secularism and Democracy (SANSAD); building relationships with members of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation in south-central B.C. as co-chair of the SCES/SFU partnership; and defending human rights and social justice, often providing expert witness testimony in immigration and Workers' Compensation Board (WCB) claim cases within the South Asian community. Series includes the organizational records of BCOFR, IPANA, and NRISAD-SANSAD; interviews, transcripts, case files, notes, and correspondence.

A Well-mannered Storm: the Glenn Gould Poems

Series consists of records relating to writing the poems about Glenn Gould and his music's affect on her, which occurred just as Braid found out she had gone deaf in one ear. Records include drafts, research on composers and composition, correspondence, book launch records, and reviews.

Reports and publications

Series consists of reports and publications produced by LIDC and its predecessors to communicate the department's activities and programs. Record types include annual reports, newsletters, brochures, and posters. Includes materials created by the former Centre for University Teaching.

Meeting dockets

This series comprises meeting dockets distributed to Board members, selected University officials, and campus organizations before each regular meeting, starting from 2004 onwards. The dockets include minutes from the previous meeting for approval, along with the current meeting agenda and all pertinent support papers.

Includes meeting agendas, minutes, and support papers including correspondence; reports; financial statements; board committee minutes; contracts; architectural drawings; personnel records such as curriculum vitae, reference letters, and appointment forms; news clippings, and other documents.

For minutes or agendas and support papers related to meetings held before 2004 when these records were kept separately, please refer to series F-33-1: Official Minutes and F-33-2: Agenda support papers.

Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local

Series consists of record relating to Braid's work co-authoring (along with Al King) the book Red Bait: Struggles of a Mine Local. Series includes transcripts of interviews with Al and Lillian King, drafts, edits and comments to the manuscript by various reviewers, reviews, and Al King's obituary and associated notes.

Conferences and professional affiliations

Series consists of records documenting various conferences that Bill Richards attended, presented at, or was involved in organizing. It also includes records relating to Richards’ involvement as publisher and co-editor of INSNA’s journal, “Connections,” and some correspondence relating to the organization of the 2007 International Sunbelt Social Network Conference when he was INSNA’s President. Records primarily include conference programs, but also include correspondence, journal articles, a photograph, and footage of a Vancouver symposium for which Richards was organizer and convener.

Sound and moving images

Series consists of student film productions and accompanying textual records, as well as audio and audio-visual recordings of performances relating to the School's dance, music and theatre program, and the Summer Institute. Records include moving images, audio recordings, and textual material relating to publicity or post-production work.

Publications

The series consists of records relating to Beyerstein's scholarly publications. Records include offprints, conference papers, copies of articles, draft manuscripts, correspondence, contracts, royalty statements, and photographs.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of material:

Publication files (sub-series 1).
Articles, abstracts and conference papers (sub-series 2).

Files are arranged chronologically.

Writings: articles, journals, pamphlets

Series consists of Gambone's published periodical articles and pamphlets. The series contains a run of issues of Any Time Now, a magazine Gambone published with Dick Martin (1990-1992, 1998-2007); copies of journal issues containing Gambone's articles, including Anarchy: A Journal of Armed Desire (Berkeley, CA), Discussion Bulletin (Grand Rapids, MI), Freedom (UK), Workers' Democracy (St. Louis, MO); and Polish translations of two of Gambone's essays published by Nakladatelskí Solidarita.

SFU course files and lectures

The series consists of records documenting Beyerstein's teaching activities. It includes course and lecture materials for SFU courses, as well as lectures delivered in the community.

The series has been arranged by the archivist into separate sub-series based on the type of material:

• SFU course files (sub-series 1)
• Lecture files (sub-series 2)

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.

Women in trade

Series consists of records related to Braid's work with women in trade, including training materials, conference planning and proceedings, reports, curricula, interviews and publications. Series is arranged in 4 subseries:

  1. Conference planning
  2. Reports
  3. Tradeswomen: a quarterly magazine
  4. Publications

Grant and funding records

Series consists of records relating to Mark Winston's research grants while at Simon Fraser University and includes applications and correspondence with his graduate students and local, provincial, and national granting agencies such as SFU Special Research Projects, the BC Honey Producers Association, the Science Council of BC, Killam Foundation, NSERC, the National Research Council, Agriculture Canada, the EJLB Foundation, and companies including Monsanto and Bayer.

Records include correspondence, reports, budget and financial working papers, applications and contracts, and brochures.

Board Retreats and Strategy Sessions

This series consists of records created during the planning and facilitation of retreat events attended by Board executives and members. The retreats involved socializing and networking, discussing issues and concerns relevant to the Board, reflection on University events and priorities, as well as strategic planning. Includes retreat agendas and notes, memos, invoices, reports, presentations, correspondence, evaluation forms, event facility brochures, articles, speaker bios, and maps.

Publications

Series consists of publications produced by the Office of the Vice-President, Research. Records include a directory of SFU research institutes and centres, promotional books on SFU's research accomplishments, circulars, grant writing workshop posters, and bi-monthly newsletters reporting on research updates.

Publications

Series consists of publications produced by the University Library and include lists of serials held by the Library, Library handbooks and annual reports, brochures, newsletters and bulletins, faculty guides, subject bibliographies, publishing guidelines for theses and extended essays and projects, SFU Friends of the Library event publications, and Library survey result reports.

Special media records

Series consists of non-textual records (special media) made and received by Hari Sharma and maintained separately from the textual files. Records include photographs, audio-visual recordings, and audio recordings.

Correspondence

Series consists of records relating to Mark Winston's correspondence
throughout his academic career and includes correspondence sent and received as a graduate student in French Guiana, a young academic writing to other universities about his pre-SFU research; and as a SFU professor responding to colleagues, the general public, organizations, and government agencies.

Photographic material

Series consists of photographs created by the staff photographers of LIDC and its predecessors. Negatives and contact sheets were systematically maintained, organized by year-based serial numbers (see sub-series 4 for description of the system). Two groups of subject-based files were also maintained, organized alphabetically: a set of slides (sub-series 2) and a set of unnumbered prints and negatives (sub-series 5. Subjects include SFU's architectural competition and design, interior and exterior architecture; opening ceremonies, presidential installations, Convocation and other special events; faculty portraits and images of students, faculty and staff in classroom and campus settings. Photographers whose works are represented in the series include Chris Hildred, Ron Long, Eddy Chan, Greg Ehlers, and Fred Kyba. Record types include negatives, contact sheets, slides and prints.

The series is arranged into three sub-series; note that there is no sub-series 1 or 3 (retired; see note on Arrangement).

  • Slides, 1967-2003 (F-18-1-2).
  • Numbered contact sheets, negatives and prints, 1963-2001 (F-18-1-4).
  • Unnumbered prints and negatives, 1967-1999 (F-18-1-5).

Official Minutes

Series comprises official minutes of regular meetings including open, closed and confidential sessions as well as official minutes of special Board meetings. Includes official appendices comprising committee minutes, correspondence, financial statements, correspondence, reports, lists of appointments and other documents. Open sessions are open to all members of the University community and the public; closed sessions are restricted to Board members, the Board secretary, the Vice-Presidents' group, the director of Media and Public Relations, and anyone else who has the permission of the Board Chair to attend. Confidential sessions are restricted to Board members, the Secretary of the Board, and anyone else who has the permission of the Board Chair to attend. These records are used to document all deliberations of the Board including the passage of motions and resolutions and the approval of governing decisions. Until approximately 1975, all Board sessions were considered closed. After that time, meetings were divided into open and closed sessions. In 2004, official meeting minutes began to be filed together with agenda support papers into docket packages. To view official meeting minutes from 2004 onwards, see series F-33-10 Meeting dockets.

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