The Autobiography series contains a personal statement written by Dominic Capeci in 2019. The autobiography describes Capeci's family and childhood, his education at the University of New Mexico and the University of California, Riverside, and his career as a scholar of African American History.
The series includes: Thompson's selected writings and speeches; a transcript from his keynote address from "2015 Unity: Journalists for Diversity Regional Media Summit"; a signed copy of volume 1 of Obama and Black Loyalty; a copy of Bankole Thompson: Portrait of a Quintessential Journalist; a flier from a 2006 Detroit Public Library Symposium; brief biographical information; and copies of briefs and other court documents related to Edwards vs The Detroit News and Thompson.
In 2019, articles written by Thompson in 2018 and episodes of his "Redline with Bankole Thompson" radio show from 2015 and 2016 were added to the collection.
The Beta Eta Chapter records series features materials documenting the history and activities of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority at the University of Michigan. The series includes photographs, event information, news articles, yearbook pages from The Michiganensian, and a small number of administrative documents.
The series also contains historical documents including a copy of the original petition to the University of Michigan to establish an Alpha Kappa Alpha chapter on campus and information about the Beta Eta chapter member lineages. There is also a selection of historical yearbook pages and news articles indicating there were women associated with other chapters of Alpha Kappa Alpha on the University of Michigan campus before the Beta Eta chapter officially formed in 1933.
The CAEN Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Materials series contains born-digital and digitized content created for the anniversary of the unit's founding in 2008. The series has four main components: signs and placards used to create exhibits; posters used at the 25th anniversary celebration and for an online exhibit; a timeline of important events and innovations over CAEN's first 25 years; and a video of the 25th anniversary exhibits. The placards provide information about hardware and infrastructure employed by CAEN over the years and the posters includes digitized images of photographs in the Visual Materials series. The video documents the exhibit created for CAEN's 25th anniversary and includes footage of various computers and hardware used by the division as well as short introductory pieces by Paul Killey, Mark Giuffrida, and Dan Maleta.
The Central Files series (46.5 linear feet), 1997-2010, are arranged in alphabetical order by subject or university unit. The files are arranged alphabetical in each of the three accessions. Boxes 1-6 contain the 2001 acquisition, Boxes 8-19 contain the 2002 acquisition, and Boxes 20-26 contain the 2004 acquisition. Boxes 30-55 contain accessions added in 2013. Some subjects may be contained in more than one accession, while others will be in only one. Some subject headings are broken down into related components. For example, "Clinical Departments" serves as an umbrella heading for folders containing information on individual clinical departments of the Medical School, including the departments of dermatology, internal medicine, and pediatrics, while "Executive Officers" serves as an umbrella heading for correspondence between Omenn and the chief executives of the university, including the President and the Provost.
The records include written correspondence, printouts of email, reports, promotional literature, and planning materials related to all of the office's areas of oversight (health sciences, hospitals and health system, Medical School, and M-Care, the university's managed health care organization). The record group also reflects the diverse activities of the office, with its true strength deriving from its demonstration of how these activities relate to each other, to other units at the university, and to the overall philosophy and mission of the medical programs at the university. Of particular note are minutes and reports from the Health Affairs Senior Team and its successor, the Health Sciences Council, a working group comprised of the deans of the university's health-oriented schools, which reflect the evolving priorities and concerns of the university as they relate to medical affairs. Also of note is information about the development of the Michigan Life Sciences Initiative and the Life Sciences Corridor.
In addition to providing insight into the overall scope and direction of medical programs at the university, the record group contains information on the specific activities of individual units reporting to the office which may not be available in other record groups currently held by the university archives. These include internal and external reviews of departments in the Medical School, information on the recruitment process for faculty and students for the Medical School and hospitals, planning materials for M-Care and the Michigan Health Corporation, and correspondence related to new medical initiatives such as the Center for Organogenesis and the Tobacco Research Network.
The records also reflect the office's role in providing outreach to people and groups outside the university, and contain information about various health agencies, health organizations, and hospitals in Michigan. Of particular note is correspondence pertaining to relationship with hospitals such as Henry Ford Health System and Foote Hospital, and information on the university's health insurance negotiations with major Michigan employers such as Ford Motor Company and General Motors.
In 2013, accessions from 2006 (boxes 30-36), 2008 (boxes 38-45), 2012 (boxes 47-55), and 2013 (boxes 56-58) were added to the series. These new accessions primarily document Kelch's service as Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs although there is material from Omenn as well as from his successor, Ora Pescovitz. The new accessions follow the same arrangement as previous materials and cover many of the same topics, extending the documentation of the office's activities. However, later accessions do add new content on topics such as stem cell research, development and expansion projects such as the Children and Women's Replacement Project and the Cardiovascular Center, and materials related to the Survival Flight Crash.