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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

The records include administrative documents, minutes, clippings, marketing materials, scrapbooks, posters, photographs, and audiovisual material that reflect the ABA's and its membership's many activities in the last 124 years, from annual conferences and training events, to specific marketing campaigns and intiatives such as Indie Next and the White House library.

Correspondence, minutes, reports, documents, financial records, surveys, publicity files, and printed materials. The correspondence consists of general files, information, and correspondence about surveys on career patterns of women in publishing. The documents include incorporation papers and related information, membership lists, data on local chapters, reports of the board, minutes of annual meetings, and the elections of officers. The printed materials are chiefly issues of the NEWSLETTER

23 VHS cassettes.

The collection contains letters and postcards from a variety of the book store's patrons regarding the sale and acquistion of books. Additionally, there are letters from a variety of correspondents to the literary editors of the New York Herald Tribune submitting work for review in that newspaper.

A collection pf drawings, original and proof book illustrations, type designs and specimens, publisher's dummies and dust jackets by Chappell.

Correspondence, memoranda, contracts, royalty statements, manuscripts, diaries, daybooks, photographs, and printed material of Strassman. The correspondence is with authors and book and magazine publishers, covering nearly forty years of Strassman's career as a literary agent. Of particular interest are the files concerning the works of William Goyen, Harry Mark Petrakis, and Friderike Zweig, the first wife of Stefan Zweig.