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Audio recordings

As Director of the University News Service, Dennis Roberts purchased a cassette recorder, which he took with him to meetings, interviews, and newsworthy events. Over the years, he captured the voices of students, staff, faculty and administrators. Although there are no transcripts for the recordings, many of them served as the basis for articles in Comment magazine, which contain additional information on the topic or individual interviewed. Topics include student protests; the dispute over the Political Science, Sociology and Anthopology (PSA) Department; interviews, speeches and news conferences with university Presidents, adminstrative officers, faculty members, staff and students.

Research files

Series consists of records made or received by Peter Poole in the course of preparing his thesis on the solidarity movement in British Columbia. Includes news clippings, essays, publications, flyers, research notes, ephemera, a copy of the thesis, and a chronology of the 1983 conflict between the solidarity movement and the Social Credit government of British Columbia.

Interviews and transcripts

Series consists of 68 interviews conducted by Peter Poole with trade union leaders, solidarity movement leaders, community activists, and legal counsel. Records include sound recordings of the interviews, lists of interview subjects, Poole's personal impressions of the tape recorded interviews and interviewees, and 26 transcripts made by students. Interviews range from one-half hour to two hours in length.

UBC Project on Non Academic Women records

Series consists of notes, correspondence, memos, lists of names, questionnaires, and receipts related to Frances Wasserlein's involvement with a project to produce a history of the Dean of Women's Office at UBC, then known as the Women Students' Office.

Canada Council Grant Application

Series consists of one file of notes, drafts, correspondence, receipts and copies of Frances Wasserlein's Canada Council Grant application in 1982. The grant application was made to request support for writing a book about the history of the women's liberation movement in British Columbia.

MA Thesis records

Series consists of materials used by Frances Wasserlein in producing her MA thesis, written between 1985 and1990, "An Arrow Aimed at the Heart": the Vancouver Women's Caucus and the Abortion Campaign, 1969-1971. The thesis topic was the history of the Vancouver Women's Caucus (VWC) and the abortion campaign of 1969-1971. The series consists of taped interviews with VWC members; transcripts of the interviews; notes; drafts; bibliographies; correspondence; publications of women's liberation organizations in Canada and the United States; a scrapbook compiled by Wasserlein during her research; copies of the VWC newspaper, The Pedestal; photographs; and other miscellaneous papers and publications.

Office files

Series contains records relating to highlights of Andrea Lebowitz's career at SFU and the development of the Women's Studies Program. One file of reference material contains publications on abortion, daycare, working women, and women at the Canadian Broadcasting Company. Includes correspondence, minutes, proposals, publications, and other documents.

Corrective Collective records

Series contains records made or received by the Corrective Collective during the course of writing, publishing and selling two books: She Named It Canada Because That's What It Was Called (Vancouver, 1971), and Never Done, Three Centuries of Women's Work in Canada (Vancouver, 1974). The former, a pictorial history of Canada, was originally produced as a handout for a conference of Vietnamese and North American women held in Vancouver. The latter was a history of non-aboriginal women in Canada. The file, "Published resource material" includes various feminist publications (such as the Saskatoon Women's Liberation Newsletter) and directories. The Collective used them to get ideas for publication formats and to prepare distribution lists. Series includes a copy of each publication, correspondence, memorandum of agreement, notes, receipts, a ledger and other documents.

Subject files

Series consists of Parker's subject and research files; includes a copy of her paper co-authored with Sibylle Klein, "Developing An Ideology: the Feminist Movement in North America." Record types include notes and drafts, news clippings, reprints, broadsheets, position papers, briefs, and newsletters.

Newspapers

Series consists of copies of published newspapers collected by Parker in the course of her research. Titles include the Students for a Democratic Society New Left Note, The Daily Gater, The Ubyssey (UBC), The Pedestal, It Aint Me Babe, People's World, Right On!, Young Socialist Forum, Women's Liberation (Reed College), New Leaf, the Women's Liberated Georgia Straight, and Off Our Backs.

Photographs

Series consists of photographic materials created by Peak journalists and photographers in the course of publishing the student newspaper. Photos depict SFU students, faculty, staff and administrators in a variety of settings, as well as the physical environment and grounds of the university. Record types comprise contact sheets, prints, and negatives.

The series has been arranged into one sub-series. Future accruals may be organized into new sub-series, depending on format or the ways in which they were maintained by The Peak:

Administration

Series consists of records relating to the administration of The Peak by the Peak Publications Society Board of Directors. Includes the constitution, certificate of incorporation, minutes from both Annual General Meetings and regular meetings, correspondence and records about the Peak Publication Society's relations with the Simon Fraser Student Society.

Finance

Series consists of records relating to the funding of the Peak Publications Society. Includes several files from the fonds of the Vice-President, University Services that had been removed by the previous archivist and intermingled with the Peak Publications Society files. The Vice-President's files contain records relating to a proposed loan to the Society. Series contains correspondence and various financial documents such as statements and balance sheets.

Peak staff

Series consists of records relating to the hiring, duties and activities of staff members who produced The Peak student newspaper. Includes minutes, staff lists, correspondence and other documents.

Publications

Series consists of publications produced by The Peak Publications Society. It includes a complete run of the two Peak predecessors, SF View, and The Tartan (sub-series 2); an ongoing run of The Peak, both in hard copy and microform (sub-series 3); the Peak Student Handbook (sub-series 4); and a separate run of The Tartan, resurrected as a magazine in 2015. Also includes other one-off or short-lived publications produced by the Society (sub-series 1), including a run of 12 issues of the Terminal City Express (1972-73), a newspaper relating to culture and politics in the Lower Mainland.

Organization and administration records

Series consists of records relating to the founding, organization, mandate, scope of activities and general administration of the Fraser Valley University Society. Activities, events and topics documented include the development of the Society's constitution, bylaws, goals, and policies; job descriptions; applications for charitable status, a casino licence and government funding; as well as volunteer efforts and management. Series also includes some records relating to the organization and administration of the Technical University of British Columbia. Activities, events and topics documented include the University's relationship with the Fraser Valley University Society and the Provincial Government, and the funding of the University.

Records include organizational charts, constitution and bylaws, mission statements, policies and procedures, job descriptions, correspondence, forms, applications, resolutions, biographical material, photographs, lists, calendars, and phone logs.

General correspondence

Series consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Society. Includes correspondence between members, as well as correspondence with government and school officials, community organizations, business associations, media, and post-secondary institutions. Activities, events and topics documented include special events, promotion, fundraising, co-operation and liaison, government relations, and general administrative activities.

Records include letters, memoranda, faxes and related attachments such as press releases, promotional material and minutes.

Financial records

Series consists of financial records of the Society. Activities, events and topics documented include budget preparation, allocation and use of financial resources, and funding and grant requests.

Records include budgets and financial statements, as well as applications for government funding, and related supporting papers.

Board, committee and meeting records

Series consists of records relating to meetings of the Board of Directors, several committees (including the Executive Committee, Fundraising Committee, Government Relations Committee, Strategy Committee and Advisory Committee) and ad-hoc or extraordinary meetings. In addition to some minutes of the Society's predecessor body, the Fraser South University Society, the series also includes records relating to meetings of the society with other groups, including meetings of the Joint Committee Group, the University of Surrey Community Committee and the Langley Economic Development Commission.

Records include meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers, correspondence, reports, budgets, financial statements, and special resolutions.

Community relations, promotion and fundraising records

Series consists of records relating to the community relations, promotion and fundraising activities of the Fraser Valley University Society and the Technical University of British Columbia.

Specific activities, events and topics documented include publicity and advertising, media relations, community outreach, speeches and talks, fundraising events, donor relations and committee meetings and reports, particularly of the Fundraising, Community Relations, and Public Relations Committees.

Records include newspaper articles, press releases and related records, correspondence, newsletters, brochures, flyers, invitations, speeches, lists, video cassettes, photographs, slides, and drawings.

Government relations records

Series consists of records relating to the society's relations and correspondence with government bodies and individuals involved in government affairs, particularly at the municipal and provincial level. Includes records relating to the activities of the Governent Relations Committee, as well as the Interim Planning Committee established by the Provincial Government in 1994 to assist in the establishment of the Technical University of British Columbia. Series also includes records concerning government organization and education policies and campaigns, accumulated by the society for informational purposes.

Records include correspondence, reports, minutes, press releases and newspaper articles.

Membership records

Series consists of records petaining to society membership. Donor lists are sometimes included in files with member lists.

Records include policies and procedures, forms and membership lists.

Reports and reference files

Series consists of reports by and relating to the society, as well as reports, news releases, statistics and other material used by the society to research post-secondary education in British Columbia. Series also include reports by and relating to the Fraser Valley Access Committee, the Fraser Valley Committee on Post-Secondary Education, the Technical University of British Columbia Interim Planning Council and the Technical University of British Columbia.

Board, committee and meeting records

Series consists of paper and electronic records relating to the meetings of the Board of Directors, several committees (Executive Committee, Program Commitee, Operations Committee and the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Committee), and the Annual General Meetings. Records include meeting agendas, minutes and supporting papers, correspondence, reports, planning documents, organization charts, budgets and financial statements, resolutions, attendance waiver forms, voting proxy forms, ballots, and proposals. Records are retained in both paper and electronic media.

Administrative and operational subject files

This series consists of records relating to the general administration of the Network through the management office. Activities documented include establishment of the Network, development of policy and governance structures, strategic planning, incorporation, liaison with member institutions, liaison with the federal Networks of Centres of Excellence (NCE) program and other NCEs, TeleLearning's mid-term review in 1998 and its renewal application in 2000.

Records includes correspondence, reports (including Annual Reports and the final NCE report), statistics, polices and procedures, insurance policies, agreements (including the Network Internal Agreement), Network by-laws, letters patent of incorporation, funding applications and planning documents. Both paper and electronic records have been retained, and there is some duplication of documents across media. Electronic records are retained in their original software formats (.doc .xls, .ppt, .pdf, .jpg).

Financial files

Series consists of records relating to the management of TeleLearning's finances. Activities documented include budget planning, preparation of year-end documentation, tax and information returns, funding applications, distribution of funds, and audits. Records include budgets, spreadsheets, financial statements and supporting papers, tax and information returns, applications, correspondence and reports. Both paper and electronic records have been retained, and there is some duplication of documents across media. Electronic records are retained in their original software formats (.doc, .xls).

Communications files

This series consists of records relating to the communications function. Activities documented include development of a communications plan, media relations, advertising and publicity, production of the Network electronic newsletter "Tele-Chat," maintenance of the TeleLearning web site, and delivery of papers, presentations and reports concerning the Network. Records include correspondence, reports, press releases, press clippings, web site, artwork, logos, graphics, photographs and negatives, papers and presentations, and TeleLearning demonstration products on compact disk. Records are retained in both paper and electronic media.

TeleLearning Conference records

This series consists of records relating to TeleLearning conferences. Activities documented include conference planning and organization, media relations, delivery of conference sessions, and post-conference evaluations.

Records include conference material (programs, abtracts, and audio recordings of sessions); publicity material (brochures, posters, graphics and promotional artifacts); administrative records (correspondence, work plans, contracts and agreements, release forms, budgets, speakers and registration lists, media releases); and post-conference reports (debriefings, wrap-up reports, conference statistics).

Research files

This series consists of records relating to the administration of TeleLearning research projects by the Network management office. Activities documented include the receipt of theme and project progress reports, drafting of project proposals and contracts, distribution of research funds, and the undertaking by the management office of its own research project, the "Network of TeleLearning Communities" project.

Records include correspondence, reports, notes and working papers, contracts, agreements and memoranda of understanding, overheads and presentations, prototype specifications, research theme and project reports, budget papers, financial statements, invoices, expense claims and supporting documentation. Record media include paper and electronic.

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