QC3. Institutional Collections

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Audio recordings of hearings held by the "Commission on the Organization of the College" between Monday, January 31 and Wednesday, February 16, 1972. Accompanying the audio cassettes is a "Calendar of Meetings" listing the dates, topics, and locations of the meetings, as well as the 18 members of the commission; and a letter from Chief Librarian Robert H. Muller noting that these recordings "will some day be viewed as a crucial milestone in the development of the college."

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Queens College Creative Services employs and/or contracts photographers to document academics, student life, and events on campus to create publicity and marketing material about the college. This collection includes photograph prints, photograph albums, and some negatives from the founding of the college in 1937 through about 2007, used by the Creative Services department in its work.

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Queens College Fact Books, compiled yearly by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, are documents that detail the profiles of students, faculty, and degree programs at the college.

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Listings of Queens faculty and staff over the decades. Multiple types of directories were published (sometimes simultaneously) with different titles and formats, including "telephone and office directories "departmental directories," and "faculty and staff directories."

Scope and Contents This collection documents the activities of the Queens College Faculty Wives Club, including social activities and fundraising. The club formally changed it's name to the Queens College Women's Club in 1967. The earliest records date to 1938, one year after Queens College was established. Materials include administrative records, photos from an "arts and hobbies show" in 1967, scrapbooks, clippings, bulletins, newsletters, fliers, and directories. A highlight is a bound, illustrated recipe...

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House plans were social organizations for men or women that were active in Queens College and other CUNY campuses in the 1960s. This collection includes a variety of Queens College house plans memorabilia like pins, buttons, and photographs. It also includes print ephemera like party programs and invitations, ticket stubs, and newspaper clippings.

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The Institute for Community Studies Collection consists of materials published by the Institute as well as publications and other materials donated by Maurice R. Berube, relating to the topic of community control of New York City schools and a restructuring of the New York City public school system.

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Queens College news releases issued by the Office of Communications and Marketing from 2003 through 2021. News releases are compiled into a single document for each year.

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Serial publications produced by the Queens College Communications Office, Foundation, Administration, and/or the Alumni Association, aimed at alumni and/or the wider college community.

Abstract The Queens College Photo Archive includes photographs, architectural drawings and posters documenting Queens College history. Prominent administrators such as QC’s first president Paul Klapper are highlights of the administrator portraits series. There are photographs of the college campus, faculty (primarily those who taught before 1970), library staff, and school events. The series of student life photos document a wide range of activities from political demonstrations, to parties, to...