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Handbooks and manuals

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Agricultural equipment catalogs collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 495 large
Scope and Contents The Agricultural Equipment Catalogs collection consists of approximately 3,500 agricultural machinery sales catalogs, promotional brochures, price lists, owner’s manuals, and illustrated parts lists dating from the late 19th century through the 1940s. The major emphasis lies in tractors and threshers, but the entire range of farm equipment can be found in these catalogs, representing some 150 different manufacturers and suppliers—primarily Midwestern firms, with a limited representation of...
Dates: 1902-2014; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1950

Associated Women Students records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-12.1.9
Scope and Content This collection contains constitutions, undated correspondence between future attendees of Michigan State and the association, which include such information as formal sorority rush and a list of freshman books required for fall semester 1944. There are also blank forms that a student would fill out for the council, including student information sheets, petition for offices and chairmanships in organizations, certificate of service for cooperative extension work and a sickness report form. ...
Dates: 1948 - 1967

Children, Youth, Families and Communities records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.9
Scope and Contents The collection consists of materials created and managed from Michigan 4-H Youth Development activities as well as activities that staff, members, and volunteers participated during the years 1920 to 1998. These records include awards, clippings, correspondence and meeting minutes (1950–1955, 1991–1998), guides, conferences (1920–1977), organizations, programs, publications, audiovisual materials, and oversized material.Conference records are for the National 4-H Club Camp...
Dates: 1912 - 2006

College of Human Medicine records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-15.13
Series Description OFFICE OF THE DEAN. Correspondence, miscellaneous papers, and speeches of Dean Hunt; correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Dean Weston, Dean Abbett and Dean Davis; Acting Dean Colenda; Associate Deans Howell, Johnson, Kohrman, Lyons, and Potchen and Executive Assistant Richmond. John C. Howell was involved in much of the early CHM planning and was Associate Dean for Curriculum. Arthur Kohrman was Associate Dean for Academic Programs as well as being an early member at the...
Dates: 1946 - 2018

Computer Laboratory records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.32
Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the Michigan State University Computer Laboratory. The records consist of plans, computer manuals, and reports during the creation and early days of the Computer Laboratory; computer system notices; bulletins; fact sheets; and other working papers of the organization as it evolved into Academic Computing and Network Services (ACNS) and Academic Technology Services (ATS). Electronic Resources includes issues of the electronic newsletters ...
Dates: 1955 - 2010

Department of Anthropology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.13
Scope and Contents

Anthropology Department records include course examinations (1964-1968), curriculum records, financial records (1964-1969), reports, and graduate program records. There is also a folder on a student strike in 1970. Other materials include College of Human Medicine curriculum and department records.

Dates: 1961 - 2008

Department of Kinesiology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.56
Scope and Contents The collection consists of course syllabi and curriculum materials, program brochures, an index and abstracts of theses, brochures for conferences and workshops, minutes from department committees, and a student handbook and staff manuals. Also included are the newsletters Spartan Messenger, Spotlight on Youth Sports, and Performance in Motion. Electronic Resources include digital editions...
Dates: 1938 - 2013

Department of Physics and Astronomy records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.95
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records including blueprints of the Old Chemistry Building (Old Chemistry Laboratory), correspondence regarding a physics textbook, experiments, graduate opportunities, a laboratory manual, materials tests, a proposal to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and telescope advertisements from the late nineteenth century.

Dates: 1890 - 2012

Department of Psychology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.101
Scope and Contents

Collection includes materials on Psychology Department head nominations (1954-1956), external survey reports on the department (1955–1956), reports (1956–1971), graduate study in the department of psychology informational booklets (1975-2000), deparmtent of psychology graduate student handbooks (1968-2000), annual reports (1957, 1959–1963, 1965-1969), brochures, class notes, and examinations.

Dates: 1945 - 2005

Department of Sociology records

 Record Group
Identifier: UA-16.113
Scope and Contents The records consist of reports and publications, information about graduate studies, materials related to rural sociology, and curriculum materials. There are also graduate student manuals, an undergraduate student manual, and department meeting minutes. Reports of note include Students’ Beliefs About Post-War Problems, 1944; Social Backgrounds of MSU Athletes, circa 1962; Centennial Farms in Michigan, 1956; Social Effects of the Depression, 1938; and Utopian Communities in the United...
Dates: 1937-2012, 2021, undated