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University of California (System). Office of the President. Records: Special problem folders to June 1958
CU-5, Series 4
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Contributing Institution:
University Archives
Title: Records of the President of the University of California: Special problem folders
Creator:
University of California (System). Office of the President
Identifier/Call Number: CU-5, Series 4
Physical Description:
52.4 linear feet
(42 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1899-1958
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Records of the president of the University of California: Special problem folders, CU-5, Series
4, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
At various times during the presidency of Robert Gordon Sproul (1930-1958), the administration had occasion to reexamine topics
related to the administration of the University, during which process documents were pulled from the regular (or routine)
files and assembled into these folders. These were to provide historical and then ongoing documentation of policy issues of
particular importance. While they do not necessarily include all material relevant to the particular topic at hand, presumably
the selection represents what were considered to be the most important items documenting past action and current thinking
on these topics.
Series 4 of the records of the Office of the President consists of these assembled papers, designated "Special Problem" folders.
They are similar to the folders in Series 3, but filed in an alphabetical arrangement rather than in a numerical arrangement
by code number; like those in Series 3, they are sometimes referred to simply as 'bound folders.
There is no documentation as to when any particular folder was formed or closed; some files contain materials going back to
the 1920s and 1930s and going up to the end of the Sproul administration in June 1958. When an item was removed from a file
for inclusion here, a reference was made on goldenrod paper indicating what was removed and what special problem folder it
was moved to. However, since neither the title nor indeed the existence of a folder on any particular topic is predictable,
it is often only by consulting a routine file that one can learn of the existence of a special problems folder.