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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Western Behavioral Sciences Institute records
Creator:
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0615
Physical Description:
68 Linear Feet
(68 cartons)
Date (inclusive): 1953-1991
Abstract: Western Behavioral Sciences Institute
(WBSI) was founded in 1958 in La Jolla, California by Richard Farson, Wayman Crow and Paul
Lloyd as an independent, nonprofit organization devoted to research, education and advanced
study in human affairs. Collection consists of correspondence, office management files,
proposals and grant applications, contractor files, trustees' minutes, teaching materials,
publicity files, reports, newsletters, conference schedules and literature, photographs of
symposium organizers and participants, audiocassette tapes of lectures and seminars, and
videotapes of WBSI publicity and documentaries.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
this page.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in
advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All
other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the
responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Western Behavioral Sciences Institute records (Collection 615).
UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transferred by UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library, circa 1998.
This collection was previously acquired from the Western Behavioral Sciences Institute by
the UCSD Mandeville Special Collections Library in 1992.
Processed by Russell Johnson, 2003. Files were received in good order, and no
re-organization was undertaken. Most individual file folders were labeled by the record
creators with (1) a brief code indicating the content's format, agency, or project, and (2)
title. The files were minimally processed. Contents were re-foldered and relabeled with the
brief code (serving as a "series" indicator) and folder title; the date or date range of a
folder's content was not determined.
Box labels constructed by UCSD were transcribed into the container list, for example:
MSS 226 / MSS 1992.27 (179) WBSI Records 19-B-5 Corr: A-Army [Box] 1
Line 1 ("MSS 226 / MSS 1992.27 (179)") = UCSD collection number / annual accession number
Line 2 ("WBSI Records") = UCSD collection title Line 3 ("19-B-5") = unknown; perhaps
shelving location? Line 4 ("Corr: A-Army") = Box contents' series and range of label titles
Line 5 ("[Box] 1") = UCSD carton number; the word "Box" supplied by UCLA
Folder "series" and titles were transcribed in upper- and lower-case according to
appearance on folder labels.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
5144553
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute (WBSI) was founded in 1958 in La Jolla, California by
Richard Farson, Wayman Crow and Paul Lloyd as an independent, nonprofit organization devoted
to research, education and advanced study in human affairs. Its early work included group
encounter sessions involving psychologists such as Carl Rogers. From 1981-1991, WBSI's
School of Management and Strategic Studies (SMSS; later the International Executive Forum,
IEF and the International Leadership Forum, ILF) pioneered the use of teleconferencing and
computer conferencing in leadership development, policy formation, education, health, social
welfare and the formation of global communities of influence.
Collection consists of correspondence, office management files, proposals and grant
applications, contractor files, trustees' minutes, teaching materials, publicity files,
reports, newsletters, conference schedules and literature, photographs of symposium
organizers and participants, audiocassette tapes of lectures and seminars, and videotapes of
WBSI publicity and documentaries. The bulk of the collection documents the development and
activities of the School of Management and Strategic Studies.
A digital copy of the collection's container list is available via this link:
Western Behavioral Sciences
Institute records container list
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Western Behavioral Sciences Institute -- Archives