Box 4

The Asian/American Center, founded at Queens College in 1987, fostered community based research focused on the Asian diaspora and acted as a bridge between campus and community. The collection contains administrative materials such as newsletters and brochures, flyers and photographs of events, samples of translated documents from their Translation Program, materials from the Asian American Community Studies minor, and research produced by the A/AC.

This series contains the Asian/American Center collections materials pertaining to the running of the center’s operations. Included is historical information on the founding, flyers and promotional materials, reports, newsletters, staff training materials, press coverage, program materials such as business cards and letterhead.

This series contains administrative items from the Translation Program such as newspaper ads, mailers, and brochures, as well as samples of translated documents from various nonprofits, health agencies, government agencies, museums, and community organizations.

This series contains reports, research from the 2000s census, and a "Working Papers" series produced by the Asian/American Center dating from the late 1980s up until the mid 2010s.

This file contains a copy of the A/AC Translation Program agreement which translators signed agreeing to provide an accurate translation of documents.

This file contains an envelope, outreach letter, and brochure addressed to agencies who have not previously worked with the A/AC translation program. At this time, the A/AC offered translation services in Chinese, Hindi, Korean, and Spanish.

Various nonprofits offering services such as housing assistance, legal aid, older adult services, education, and the arts sought translations from the A/AC. This subseries contains a sampling of translations from NYC nonprofit agencies.

This file contains newspaper clippings and research from the Census Bureau on the topic of the 2000 Census. Flat file contains folder of oversized newspaper articles with census information. Clippings are from the following publications: Newsday, The New York Times, and the Liberty Times. From this research, the A/AC produced a one-pager fact sheet with takeaways from the census and what it means for Asian Americans in the U.S.

This file contains translation samples from hospitals and community health agencies such as North Shore-LIJ, Flushing Hospital, St. Mary’s Children’s Hospital, and Social Concern Community Development Corporation. Documents show the wide range of topics requested for translation such as family handbooks, policy changes, home health care guides and flyers, and brochures from the Tourette Association of America.

This file contains translated documents from New York City and State government agencies. Folder includes an Immigrant Services Manual prepared by the Office of the NYC Public Advocate and edited by various NYC non-profits, an information card on GrowNYC’s Zero Waste Program translated into Korean, and a translated document of a Basic Guide to New York State law translated into Chinese from the NY State Division of Human Rights.