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Working Women Unite records

Series consists of records relating to Working Women Unite. Includes financial records, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, articles, papers and bulletins.

British Columbia Federation of Women records

Series consists of records relating to the British Columbia Federation of Women (BCFW), the parent organization of Working Women Unite. Includes newsletters, draft convention proposals, minutes, agendas, constitution, policy handbooks, and proceedings of the 1979 and 1980 conventions.

Service, Office, and Retail Workers Union of Canada records

Series consists of records relating to the Service, Office, and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC). Activities documented include policy development, fundraising, and conventions. Includes newsletters, bulletins, minutes of meetings, correspondence, copies of collective agreements negotiated by the union (with the Simon Fraser Student Society and the Pooh Corner Daycare), financial records, and convention proceedings.

SFU architectural competition records

Series consists of records relating to the Simon Fraser University architectural competition. The contest was held in 1963 to choose the overall design for the new university. Includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, information releases, minutes of meetings with Gordon Shrum (SFU Chancellor), and photographs of the proposed site.

SFU architectural plans

Series consists of architectural drawings and plans for work done at Simon Fraser University by Robert Harrison. Includes plans and drawings for different phases of library construction and plans for other buildings at Simon Fraser University.

SFU construction records

Series consists of records relating to the construction of the library and other buildings at Simon Fraser University. Records reflect the different stages of construction such as site excavation, concrete tests, electrical work, and millwork furnishings. Includes correspondence, change orders, test results, inspection reports, notes, correspondence, minutes of job meetings, tenders, and financial records.

SFU building specifications

Series consists of detailed descriptions of dimensions, materials, and costs for construction of the library and other buildings at SFU. Includes architectural, electrical and mechanical specifications, addenda, and supplementary general conditions.

Architectural plans

Series consists of architectural drawings and plans for the Academic Quadrangle, including cafeterias, lunch rooms, and laboratories; plans for the west concourse; student residences, and the Men's residence.

Director's correspondence

Series consists of correspondence of the Director of Academic Planning. Correspondence includes letters received and copies of letters sent. Correspondents include members of the media, university administrators, and potential University employees and students. Materials relate to the formulation of University policies, the dissemination of information regarding the University, the staffing of the University, and other topics.

Policies and reference material

Series consists of draft policies for SFU, as well as reference material used to formulate those policies. Policies relate to academic plans, examinations, credit hours and degree requirements, student activity fees, academic calendars, course numbering systems, staffing, academic freedom, admission requirements, and other issues. Reference material consists of reports and other records from other universities regarding their policies, procedures, and circumstances. Series also includes a tabulation of credit hours taught at SFU in the 1967 summer semester.

Chairman's correspondence and reports

The series consists of records relating to the administrative and operational activities and interests of the department Chairman, including research, funding, relations with external bodies including the federal and provincial governments, proposals for new programs and courses, the Bamfield Marine Station and the Master of Pest Management program. Record types include circulars, correspondence, directives, reports and working papers. For a list of correspondents (as reflected in file titles), see Access Points below.

Research grant applications

Series consists of records relating to departmental research grants and projects funded from both governmental and non-governmental sources. It includes correspondence, research proposals, grant applications, and working papers. Files are arranged in alphabetical order by name of faculty member; for names, see Access Points below.

Committees and meetings

Series consists of records relating to the decisions, actions and activities of various departmental and faculty academic and administrative committees. The majority of files relate to the Departmental Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (DUCC) and the Departmental Graduate Studies Committee (DGSC), but see Access Points below for full list of committees represented. The series includes meeting agenda and minutes, correspondence, reports, and working papers.

Printed materials

Series consists of printed and published materials relating to the promotion and advertisement of department courses, programs and activities. It includes brochures, pamphlets, and circulars; materials from the 1960s prepared by the Academic Board for Higher Education in British Columbia; the departmental newsletter Bio-Bull (1975-1976); a report by marine biology students on British Columbia as a maritime province (1975); and a report of the Behavioural Ecology Research Group on its activities for the period 1983-1988.

Departmental files

Series consists of records relating to the administrative and operational activities and responsibilities of the department. These activities include relations with other departments of the university, other universities, colleges, high schools, governments, organizations, and corporations. Also documented are activities relating to enrollment, undergraduate and graduate student curricula, administrative systems and procedures, departmental policies, transfer credits, bursaries and scholarships, public relations, teaching, facilities and research. The series includes correspondence, copies of Senate minutes detailing appointments, and memoranda. For a partial list of correspondents, see Access Points below; names have been registered as access points if they appear in file titles.

Curriculum and programs

Series consists of records relating to the courses offered by the department, including course content, requirements, expectations and examinations. It includes correspondence, course outlines, sample examination papers, and reports.

Centre for Pest Management files

The chief function of the Centre for Pest Management was the administration and promotion of pest management research and the provision of instruction. In meeting this responsibility, its Director worked to forge links with other universities, research institutes and professional associations, as well as to attract eminent pest management experts, entomologists and plant pathologists to give guest lectures or conduct research. It also provided a place of instruction for students in all degree programs.

Series consists of records relating to the administrative and operational activities and responsibilities of the Centre. It includes meeting agenda and minutes, correspondence, course and program proposals and outlines, directives, proposals, published materials, reports, and working papers.

University Librarian's records

Series consists of records related to the activities of the University Librarian and includes correspondence with members of the university community, other universities and external organizations; reports including Library reviews; building renovations; development of Library policies and patron regulations; management planning; 10-year projections for the Library; annual reports; and student and faculty user surveys.

Records include correspondence and working papers, agendas and minutes, reports, statistics, and policies.

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.

University Bookstore records

Series consists of records related to the University Bookstore and includes correspondence of the University Librarian with the Bookstore manager, the university community regarding the Bookstore, and vendors; Bookstore policies and operating procedures; year end reports; a Bookstore research study; operating budget and financial statements; plans for renovations to the Bookstore; the report of the Bookstore Review Committee and responses to it; and records of a joint grievance committee hearing.

Records include correspondence, reports, budget and financial working papers, and newsletters.

Administration records

Series consists of records related to the daily administration of the University Library including organizational charts and identification of Library objectives; formulation of policies and procedures; management of staff and personnel issues including salaries, job descriptions, and grievances; monthly departmental statistics and reports; thesis preparation and binding; funding for staff research and bibliographic projects; implementation of fire and emergency procedures; budget planning and financial working papers; and management of the Audio Visual Centre.

Records include correspondence and working papers, statistics, reports, budgets and newspaper clippings.

Collections Division records

Series consists of records related to the activities of the Collections Division within the University Library and includes correspondence with the university community and book vendors; collection policies and analysis; monthly reports and statistics; literature guides; progress updates on the Library's early Canadian journals project and the RCMP collection; and grant applications for project funding from the Donner Foundation, Canada Library Council, Vancouver Foundation, and Boag Foundation.

Records include correspondence, working papers and invoices, reports, statistics, grant applications, and annual reports.

Processing Division records

Series consists of records related to the activities of the Processing Division of the University Library and includes correspondence with the university community, other university libraries, and professional associations; staff reference letters; faculty book processing requests; college book processing procedures; and budget planning and operating expenses for the division.

Records include correspondence and working papers, minutes, statistics and financial statements.

Acquisitions Division records

Series consists of records related to the establishment of the Library collection and includes the Library's original book accession lists; Acquisitions Division correspondence with the university community and book processing and publishing companies; annual reports for the division; and work of the Serials Project Team.

Records include correspondence, reports, statistics, and invoices.

Cataloguing Division records

Series consists of records relating to the activities of the Cataloguing Division at the University Library and includes correspondence with the university community; division organizational charts; monthly division activity reports, cataloguing statistics, and annual reports; division budget planning; and procedures for carrying out shared cataloguing and processing for regional colleges in British Columbia.

Records include correspondence, reports, statistics, budgets and financial working papers.

Loans Division records

Series consists of records related to the activities of the Loans Division of the University Library and includes correspondence with the university community; policy development on loan procedures including on-line and external; annual reports, monthly Division activity reports, and turnstile statistics; Division meeting minutes; Division budget planning and financial working documents; reports including information on staff activities, workload, projects, the 24 hour Library opening experiment, and on the SHARE project with Okanagan College in Kelowna; interlibrary loans procedures between SFU and the University of British Columbia, progress reports and statistics; and participation in the B.C. Post Secondary Interlibrary Loan Network.

Records include correspondence, minutes, reports, questionnaires, statistics, policies, and financial working papers.

Information Systems Division records

Series consists of records related to the Information Systems Division of the University Library and includes correspondence between Library staff and EPIC, GEAC, and BRS System database vendors; vendor proposals and purchase agreements; automation reports and database planning records; monthly division activity reports; GEAC project planning, training, and implementation; and minutes of the GEAC Acquisition Planning Committee, RFP Steering Committee, Name and Address System Steering Committee, and the British Columbia Library Network.

Records include correspondence and working papers, minutes, reports and statistics, project proposals and updates, and contracts, agreements, and invoices.

Committee records

Series consists of records relating to the University Librarian's correspondence with, and participation on, various university and non-university committees.

For the complete list of committees, see the sub-series list below.

Records include correspondence and working papers, agendas and minutes, reports, financial papers and staff photographs.

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