-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/group_research/main.htm l <A HREF="http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/guides/group_research/ma in.html">Group Research Archives </A> ----- Huge collection. Om K ----- The Archives of Group Research Collection Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date Range: 1955-1996 Size of Collection: 201 linear ft. (ca. 193,000 items in 483 boxes) Date of Acquisition: Purchase, 1996 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ History of Group Research, Inc. A successful journalist for such magazines as Newsweek, Time, Life, and Changing Times as well as a staff member of several government agencies and government-related organizations, Wesley McCune founded Group Research, Inc. in 1962. Based in Washington, DC until ceasing operations in the mid-1990s, Group Research Inc. collected materials that focus on the right-wing and span four decades. The resulting Group Research archive includes information about and by right-wing organizations and a ctivists in the form of publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, newspaper, Congressional Record, and magazine clippings, and other ephemera. The collection is thoroughly cross-referenced and contains the Group Research Directory w hich, dating mostly from the 1960s, provides brief histories of prominent people, organizations, and publications associated with the right wing. McCune and his small staff also published an initially bi-monthly, but in later years, monthly newsletter, Group Research Report, which kept its subscribers abreast of the latest views and actions of right-wingers. SCOPE AND CONTENT McCune and his staff catalogued the collection to operate as a fully accessible library, and their organization, including their folder labels, has been maintained as much as possible. Most of the materials are arranged alphabetically by topic (rather t han, for example, chronologically) and have been divided into three separate series. Four other series contain volumes of Group Research Report, larger printed works, audio-visual materials, and the Group Research Directory. The specific c ontents of these series are described in greater detail below. Series I: Topical, 1955-1996, Boxes 1-346 Includes publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, newspaper, Congressional Record, and magazine clippings, and other ephemera gathered on right-wing activists and organizations, and even places, issues, and institutions not explicitly or solely connected with the right-wing (for example, abortion or the University of California, Berkeley). Folders arranged mostly alphabetically under the labels designated by Group Research, Inc. Occasionally the labels and the order can be somewhat quir ky with some organizations like the Benjamin Franklin Historical Society listed as "Franklin Historical Society, Benjamin," with a series of folders divided into chronological units beginning with the most recent date first, and with titles of folders suc h as "Southern Lunancy." Series II: Topical, 1955-1996, Boxes 347-409 Includes publications, correspondence, pamphlets, reports, newspaper, Congressional Record, and magazine clippings, and other ephemera gathered on right-wing activists and organizations. Folders arranged alphabetically under the labels designated by Grou p Research, Inc. These files are usually larger than those found in Series I and appear to have been maintained by Group Research, Inc. as a set of records separate from the other topical materials. Series III: States, 1955-1996, Boxes 410-424 Includes ephemera, mostly clippings, concerning right-wing activities, organizations, and activists organized by state. Folders arranged alphabetically with the first box in this series containing two lists, compiled by Group Research, Inc., of right-win g groups arranged according to state. Group Research, Inc. maintained these records separately from the topical files found in Series I and II. Series IV: Group Research Report, 1962-1996, Boxes 425-431 Includes all copies of Group Research Report, volumes 1 through 35. Folders arranged chronologically beginning with the first issue. Group Research, Inc. maintained these records separately from the topical and states files found in Series I, II, and III . Series V: Printed Materials, 1960-1985, Box 432 Includes larger-sized publications found in the topical files, but not in folders. Series VI: Audio/Visual, not dated, Box 433 Includes one audio record (33.3 rpm). Series VII: Group Research Directory, not dated, Boxes 434-435 Includes the Group Research Directory divided into five sections: "Instructions," "Organizations," "Individuals," "Publications," and "Special Reports." Documents within each section are arranged alphabetically. Series VIII: Group Research Card File, Boxes 436-483 This is a series of 48 boxes of cards in four series: Personal Names; Organizations; States; Publications indexing and cross-referencing the Group Research Archives. The cards contain additional information not found in the files. The Card Files series has been fully microfilmed. Researchers are to use the microfilm rather than he original Card File. Restrictions Permission to quote or publish must be obtained in writing from the Director of The Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The microfilm of the Card Files must be used rather than the original cards. --more at site-- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. 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