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Correspondence, memos, minutes, annual reports, membership and mailing lists, publicity files, and printed materials relating to the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and two of its subdivisions, the Serials Industry Systems Advisory Committee (SISAC), and the Book Industry Systems Advisory Committee (BISAC). Correspondence includes letters to and from a wide variety of prominent members of the publishing industry, and relates to all aspects of the BISG, SISAC, and BISAC, including finance. Memos concern all aspects of BISG's operations, and are both intra and interdivisional. Minutes are of meetings of SISAC, BISAC, the BISG, and the Board of Directors, and include attendence records and reports by various members. The membership and mailing lists illustrate the diversity of the BISG and emphasize its importance in the publishing industry. Publicity files include examples of press releases and mailings to BISG members. The printed material includes copies of Consumer research reports prepared by the BISG and copies of its three publications, Book Industry Trends, Trends Update, and the BISG Bulletin

A nearly complete run of 106 issues of Bound & Gagged magazine, plus 125 original drawings, and several portfolios of artwork and miscellaneous binders. In addition there are ca. 10 record storage boxes of supporting correspondence and archives. It is likely that this collections will include videos and DVDs.

The Bradley Commission on History in Schools Records contain the commission's administrative records and materials related to the process of creating and sharing guidelines for elementary and secondary school history education in the United States from 1982-1992. Many of these materials were created by Elaine Wrisley Reed, administrative director, Kenneth Jackson, chair, and the sixteen members of the commission. They include files related to the planning, staffing, and funding of the commission as well as correspondence and meeting minutes. The papers also contain surveys the commission drafted and distributed to teachers to collect data for the project. Teachers were surveyed on the history requirements at their school, the obstacles they faced, and recommendations to improve their field. The results of those surveys and the commission's conclusions are documented with drafts and final versions of two publications, as well as videos and other materials from two associated conferences.

Correspondence, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, printed materials relating to Woodring's scholarly activities. The bulk of the collection is material relating to his editing of Coleridge's Table Talk for the Collected Colleridge. There is also material relating to his teaching career, as well as his many professional activities. In addition to the manuscript material, there are 197 books presented to Woodring by former students, faculty members, and others