FINDING-AIDS LIST
AND INDEX
To Documents and Materials Relating
to the IEEE MERGER HISTORY
Conducted by George Carlyle Sell, Grad.
Student
Department of History and
Sociology of Science
University of
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania 19174
Autumn, 1978
NOTE TO USERS OF THIS FINDING-AID:
This comprehensive list of finding-aids to
nearly six hundred documents relating to the
history of the IEEE, is designed for
efficient access by users of these archives. A
name and subject index following this
list, is keyed to the finding-aids list. In
that the finding-aids list is symmetrical with
the organization of the archives, the
index is, therefore, an index to the archival
materials themselves.
The finding-aids list (and the archival
materials, accordingly) is organized into eleven
categories and fifty-nine subcategorizes.
The numbering system is designed to reveal at
a glance, the category and sub category, as well
as the individual item number, for each
document. The three part number designation for
a document will have three number groups.
For example, if a document is identified
by the number 5.26.300,- the left-hand number
group, 5, indicates the category,
"Technical Operations and Meetings." The
middle number group, 26, indicate the sub
category, "Technical Group Structure -
Organization Plans." The right-hand number
group, 300, indicates the individual
document number which is consecutive with other
individual documents in the finding-aids list.
The index will refer the user to documents
pertaining to the name or subject indexed.
Documents will be referenced by individual
document numbers only (i.e., the right-hand
number group) unless an entire category or
sub category is referenced, in which case
the three part number will be indicated with the
right-hand number group as zero (for
example, 5.26.0). The finding aid
table of contents shows the range of
document numbers contained within each
category in order to make easier locating
any particular document by its document number.
The three part number system is also designed
to provide effortless returning of documents to
their proper order in the organized
archive after use.
Subsequently added documents can either be
placed in the appropriate location in the
archives and given the three part number
designation of the previous item with the
addition of a letter (for example
5.26.300a), or a separate category can be
created at the end of the present archival arrangement.
TABLE OF CATEGORIES AND SUBCATEGORIES
1.0.0 INTERSOCIETY RELATIONS (Including
Pre-1961 AIEE/IRE Relations) (#001-067)
1.1.0 Board of Directors and Executive
Committee Meetings - Excerpts
1.2.0 Early AIEE/IRE Relations
1.3.0 Unity of Profession
1.4.0
Special Subcommittee on AIEE/IRE
Interrelations
1.5.0 AIEE vs.
IRE - Communications Div. Chairman's Letters
- Coggeshall
1.6.0
Intersociety Relations Committee - AIEE
1.7.0 "Climate For AIEE"
2.0.0 MERGER COMMITTEES AND STUDY GROUPS (#068-132)
2.8.0 Preliminary Organization
2.9.0 Study Groups - Reports
2.10.0 Fourteen-man Joint Merger Committee
Selection
2.11.0 Fourteen-man
Committee - Meetings and Associated Documents
3.0.0 EXECUTIVE ARRANGEMENTS (#133-188)
3.12.0 IRE Board of Directors and
Executive Committee Minutes
3.13.0 News Releases
3.14.0
News Articles - Merger
3.15.0
Executive Communications with General Membership
4.0.0 MERGER (General) (#189-299)
4.16.0 AIEE 'Townmeeting" and IRE
"Symposium On Merger"
4.17.0
Correspondence Praising Merger
4.18.0 Merger Criticism - General
4.19.0 Merger Criticism - Brownlee's
Letter
4.20.0 Criticism of
Directors Slate
4.21.0 Merger
at Section Level
4.22.0 Student
Question
4.23.0 Merger Vote by
Membership
4.24.0 Merger
Documents - Revisions and Drafts
4.25.0 New Society Name and Emblem
5.0.0 TECHNICAL OPERATIONS AND MEETINGS (#300-337)
5.26.0 Technical Group Structure -
Organization Plans
5.27.0
Technical Publications Plans and
Suggestions
5.28.0 Standards -
Plans
5.29.0 Power Group
5.30.0 Nine-man Subcommittee Considerations
- Merger of Technical Groups
5.31.0 Hickernell File
6.0.0 INSTITUTE OPERATIONS
(Non-technical) (#338-360)
6.32.0 Staff Planning and
Organization
6.33.0 IRE
Committee List
6.34.0 Meetings
Schedule - AIEE, IRE and IEEE
6.35.0 Reports of Secretary IRE
6.36.0 Regions and Sections - Planning
7.0.0 FISCAL MATTERS (#361-386)
7.37.0 Fiscal Operations - Planning
7.38.0 Budget Determinations - AIEE/IRE
7.39.0 Budget, IEEE 1963 - Planning
7.40.0 Publications as Budget Item
7.41.0 Dues Income Estimations
7.42.0 Institute Tax Status
8.0.0 MEMBERSHIP AFFAIRS (#387-411)
8.43.0 Membership Statistics
8.44.0 Membership Grades
8.45.0
Student Members and Branches
8.46.0 Professional Development and
Recognition Department Plans
8.47.0 Professional Technical Group Guidelines
9.0.0 PUBLICATIONS (#412-441)
9.48.0 Publications Policy
9.49.0 Publication Statistics
10.0.0 LEGAL DOCUMENTS (#442-506)
10.50.0 Merger Resolution
10.51.0 Principles of Consolidation -
Drafts
10.52.0 Constitution and
Bylaws - IRE and AIEE
10.53.0
Constitution and Bylaws - IEEE
10.54.0 Merger Vote - Membership
10.55.0 Incorporation
10.56.0
Professional Conduct
10.57.0
United Engineering Building
11.0.0 POST-MERGER HINDSIGHTS (#507-576)
11.58.0 Merger Information -
Collecting
11.59.0 Merger
Information - Miscellaneous
INDEX
