The Records of Meetings Subseries is divided into two sections: volumes which are indexed from 1920 through 1973 and unindexed meeting records. This subseries also includes records of cancelled meetings. The actual records of the Council's meetings include invitations to the meetings, attendance lists, correspondence, (including letters between the Executive Director of the Council on Foreign Relations and potential speakers), background material on the speakers and the topics, a digest of the meeting (in early meeting records, transcripts are available; some later meeting records include evaluations), and miscellaneous materials relating to the meeting. Recordings of a portion of the meetings from the early 1950s through the late 1980s are present in the Sound Recordings Series.
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Series 4: Meetings, 1920-1995
4 items
207 boxes
The Meetings Series documents the work of the Council's Meetings Department, including administrative issues, such as correspondence with speakers, attendance records, and the non-attribution rule, as well as the records of the actual meetings themselves. Early meeting records often include a transcript of the speaker's remarks at the meeting; this process was discontinued after 1964 as a cost saving measure. Beginning in 1978, the Council began to tape record selected meetings to serve as a substitute for the transcript, allowing Council members who could not attend certain meetings to listen to the tape recordings at the Pratt House. Beginning in 1991, all meetings were taped. At the end of each fiscal year, the president, director of meetings and director of programs would choose a sampling of the tapes to retain in the Council's archive. See Series 13: Sound Recordings, for the extant taped meetings.
Material within the Volumes Subseries include correspondence about the conferences, background reading, notes, agendas, papers and reports. Each conference was organized along individual lines, and thus different records and information may be present for each conference.
The Conference Records Subseries is composed of mainly post-1970 records of Council Conferences. Materials consist of correspondence about the planning of conferences, information about speakers and their prepared papers, schedules and agendas for conferences and budget information as well as background papers, summary reports, post-conference papers, articles, and other correspondence. Published booklets on the proceedings of three early conferences that pre-date the Volumes of Subseries 5A are also included in this subseries.
Subseries 5C: Special Conference Records, 1927-1992
3 boxes
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The Special Conference Records Subseries includes files on the International Studies Conferences, which the Council coordinated from the 1930s through the 1950s, and records of the collaboration between the Council and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government on workshops in the late 1980s and early 1990s focusing on the international aspects of science and technology. Additionally, this subseries includes files on miscellaneous international institutes in which the Council or its members took part. These files mainly include correspondence and reports related to the planning of the event and the agendas of the event itself.
Series 5: Conferences, 1921-2000
9.0 linear feet
(18 containers)
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The Conferences Series contains the records of conferences that were either organized by the Council itself or were meetings in which Council staff members played major roles. Because the Council's activities were open to selected members only, most conference files contain a sample of the selection process as well as a final list of invitees.
Subseries 6B: Events, 1939-1994
15 boxes
The Events Subseries documents events sponsored by the Corporate Program for the business members of the Council including seminars, meetings, conferences, breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, and trips. Business Executive Seminars and Corporate Service Seminars files contain information on meetings including background reading, correspondence with speakers, and other general planning matters. Post 1981 files include the event's program and general planning materials such as correspondence with speakers. Materials relating to the Corporate Program trips include planning materials, correspondence to prospective trip-takers, agendas, and information about destination points and activities.
Series 6: Corporate Program, 1939-2010
16.5 linear feet
(32 containers)
The Corporate Program Series documents the activities of the Corporate Program through event planning and budget records of its administration as well as records of its Business Executive Seminars, Corporate Service Seminars, and the later meetings, conferences, breakfasts, luncheons, dinners, trips and other events.
