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Office Diaries
Early on, the diaries were relatively informative documents, often including entries describing visitors and events at the BHL. Increasingly, however, they became more like logbooks recording commonplace transactions, such as the number of letters prepared each day and the name of each letter's recipient.
Field Program
The Field Program subseries, 1937-2002 (2 linear feet) begins with "trip reports" written between 1935 and 1985. A trip report is a written summary of a contact by a BHL staff member and a donor or potential donor of material. The subseries also includes "Donor Lead Sheets" for the period 1988 and 1995 which are arranged alphabetically and contain information regarding the pursuit of specific collections; and "Donor Lead Card Catalog" for the period 1960s-2000s with names, addresses, and field notes, also arranged alphabetically, located in an oversize box.
Librarian/Cataloger Reports
The Librarian/Cataloger Reports (0.2 linear feet) consists of reports filed by various individuals who held this position between 1955 and 1980. The Collections Committee was formed in 1992, and this subseries contains the committee's agendas and meeting summaries. This series also contains two folders of excerpts from the Regents Proceedings that reference the Michigan Historical Collections and the Bentley Library.
Topical Files
The Topical Files subseries (1980-2009, 1.7 linear feet) includes files that were contributed by Leonard Coombs, Marilyn McLaughlin, Thomas Powers, Ken Scheffel and others. It includes materials related to the development of the access and description systems employed by the Bentley, as well an interesting "Introduction to MHC Manual," created around 1980.