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Kalamazoo College Upjohn Library: Archives

RECORD GROUPS

Rather than using call numbers like those assigned to books, archivists use record group numbers (RG 29, for example, to represent Residential Life), followed by series and subseries designations (RG 29/2 for Languages and Literature and RG 29/2.1 for English). This classification scheme represents the College's structure and reinforces a principal of archival arrangement: maintenance of provenance, which means materials are filed by the unit or organization in which they originated and are kept in their original order when possible.

See also How to Use Record Groups.

The main record groups below link to series and subseries.

  1. Board of Trustees
  2. Baptist Collection
  3. President
  4. Provost
  5. Admissions
  6. Registrar/Records
  7. Financial Aid
  8. Human Resources (Personnel until 5/1998)
  9. Vice President for College Advancement (Vice President for Planning and Development until 1997)
  10. Campaign for Kalamazoo
  11. Annual Fund
  12. College Communications (Public Relations until 1998)
  13. Business and Finance
  14. Vice President of Experiential Education (formerly Dean of Students)
  15. Guilds (Collaboratives or Communities of Practice)
  16. Unassigned
  17. Academic Advising
  18. Unassigned
  19. Security Department
  20. Alumni Relations
  21. Commencement
  22. Homecoming
  23. Dean of the Chapel
  24. The Bells (English Tower Bells)
  25. Hellmuth Wolff Organ
  26. Evergood Mural
  27. Portraits of Presidents
  28. Liberal Arts Colloquium (LAC) [See also Dean of the Chapel (23), Forum Committee (30/15), and Lecture Series (62)]
  29. Academic Departments
  30. The Faculty
  31. Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program
  32. Lucasse Award
  33. Information Services, 1997-
  34. Innovative Colleges Conference. May 18-21, 1989
  35. Academic Programs
  36. Kalamazoo Plan
  37. Career Development Center
  38. Center for International Programs (Foreign Study)
  39. Senior Individualized Project (SIP)
  40. Non-Traditional Student Program
  41. Student Honors, Awards, and Prizes
  42. College Awards and Honorary Degrees
  43. Scholarships and Fellowships
  44. Academically Talented Youth Program (ATYP)
  45. Heyl Science Scholarship
  46. Convocations
  47. Organizations
  48. Professorships
  49. Student Activities
  50. Athletics
  51. National Boys' Tennis Championships (USTA)
  52. Publications
  53. Groups and Consortia
  54. Music Center
  55. Bach Festival Society
  56. Contemporary Music Festival
  57. Faculty Chamber Music Society
  58. Festival of the Romantic Spirit
  59. Festival Playhouse
  60. Readers Theatre
  61. President's Fine Art Series
  62. Lecture Series
  63. Computer Services (formerly Campus Computing) [See Information Services (33) after 1997]
  64. Library
  65. Archives, College
  66. A.M. Todd Rare Book Room
  67. Fetzer Media Center
  68. L. Lee Stryker Center 1978-
  69. Facilities Management Dept. 1993-
  70. Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service Learning
  71. Buildings and Athletic Facilities
  72. Bookstore
  73. Food Service
  74. Biographical Files
  75. Institutional Research
  76. Institutional Historical Development
  77. Donated Collections
  78. Audiovisual Materials

Last updated February 2008

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