University Relations – Office Records
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the records of the Office of University Relations at the time of transfer. This includes correspondence, memoranda, reports, and office records relating to commencement, colleges, and universities, local businesses, governance committees, councils, and the University Assembly, the Governance Workshop (May 8-9, 1970), State of Illinois departments and commissions, printing, salaries, inter-office memos, job applications, land and area planning, law school, ground breaking, special events, university week, the Illinois Board of Higher Education, The Illinois Board of Regents, Springfield organizations and clubs, the Springfield Area Arts Council, and other university materials.
This collection has the following series:
Series One: Business and Civic Organizations – Information and Correspondence.
Series Two: Colleges and Universities - Information and Correspondence
Series Three: Committee Records, Working Papers, and Memos
Series Fours: Memos and Letters
Series Five: Working Papers
Series Six: Publicity
Series Seven: State of Illinois
Series Eight: Public Information
Notes about series: 1: Apart from series eight, the material within each series is in alphabetical order. 2: Series Seven, State of Illinois was split in to multiple boxes before the time of reprocessing.
Dates
- 1961-1985
Access
The collection is open under the rules and regulations of the University of Illinois- Springfield (UIS)
Copyrights
Copyrights to this collection are held by UIS.
History
One of the original departments on campus, University Relations handled things like press releases, communication between the community and campus as well as communication to the campus from the office of the president. Currently, these types of media are handled by the Office of Media Strategy.
Extent
7.75 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Transferred to the Archives by Mary Lou Speaks on May 20, 1974.
Property Rights
UIS owns the property rights to this collection.
Processing Information
This collection was reprocessed in October and November 2024. The order was kept was close to the original as possible.
Source
- University Relations (Person)
- University Relations/Campus Relations (Organization)
- Title
- Finding Aid to the University Relations – Office Records
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520
archives@uis.libanswers.com