Series 1: Jon Edwards Office Files consists of material collected by Edwards of various origin, including records deposited in his office by various staff members immediately prior to a departmental move in 2010.
Series 1: Jon Edwards Office Files is divided into the following five subseries: Subseries 1A: Jon Edwards Research Files; Subseries 1B: Jon Edwards Subject Files; Subseries 1C: Staff Files; Subseries 1D: System Logs; and Subseries 1E: Cassettees, Compact Discs, Floppy Disks, Reel-to-Reel Audio, and Slides.
Binder Notes, 2005-2007
Summary I, undated
Summary II, undated
Towards a history of Princeton computing, Part 3; Power Points; Thomas Haigh website, 2005-2007
Summary (2 Files), 2009
AI + EPVC, 1987-1989
Apple Stuff, 1990
Articles-Scanned, 1990
ATA, 1988-1990
AT&T, 1986-1988
AT&T Tools, 1986-1987
ACTS, 1990
Academic Computing, 1988
Acet. Subcomm, 1987
Ads, 1988
Apple, 1985-1986
Bill Howarth, 1989
Budget, 1989
Budget Review, 1989
Classics, 1988
Core, 1987
Cornell: Socrates, 1987
Credit Union, undated
Cullinet, 1989
Data Security, undated
Douthwaite, 1987
Duplications, 1987-1988
Dept Chair Disc, 1987
Director's Agenda, 1987
Disaster Recovery, 1988
Drexel, 1987
EDUC DB, 1987
Educom '90, 1990
Educom, 1988
Ethiopia, 1990
Faculty Agenda, undated
Faculty Letters, undated
Feranti, 1988
Steve Ferguson, undated
Five-Year Plan, 1988
(Ira) Fuchs, undated
Future Themes, 1985
Gates, William, undated
General, 1987-1989
Goals GM, 1988
Gould, 1987
Grants, 1988
Hambrect Report, undated
Hewlett-Packard, 1985
Hourglass, 1988
Humanities, 1989
IBM, 1985-1992
IBM, 1987-1989
IBM, 1986
IBM Credit Card, 1985
IBM Bulk Purchase, 1986
IBM, 1988
1986-1988, 1986-1988
1985, 1985
Complaints, 1986
Miscellaneous, 1989-1992
Inventory, 1988-1989
Invoices, 1987 March 9
JvNCnet, 1990
transfer, 1990
JvNCnet, 1990
Services, 1990
Rhode Island, 1990
Connecticut, 1990
JvNCnet, 1990
New Jersey, 1990
Kiosk, 1988
Library, 1989
Library Catalog, undated
Micro Agenda, undated
Networking, 1987
NeXT, 1987-1990
87 offsite, undated
Personnel, 1987
PPL, 1987
Miscellaneous, 1987-1990
Satellite Programs, 1989
Miscellaneous II, 1988
Hi Tech Cl., 1987-1988
PLAN 1st Shot, 1987
Pamphlets, 1987
Prince, 1987
Print - Pay for, 1987
PUCC Information, 1987
Purchasing, 1989
Questionnaires, undated
Quality Print, 1988
Rob Shell, 1989
Resumes, undated
Sugarman, 1988
Space, 1987-1989
Speaker's List, 1987
Store, 1987-1989
Store (II), 1986-1989
Surveys, 1986-1990
Survey, 1989
Surveys, 1986-1990
Survey: Net 89, 1989
Sbacchi, 1989
Shapiro Visit, 1987
Software, 1987-1989
Software Piracy, 1986
8700 Software, undated
Tandy, 1989
Third World Center, 1987
Toshiba, 1989
Tigernet, 1986-1988
U.P.S., 1987
Upperclass, 1988
Vendor Relations, 1989
Visually Impaired, 1988
Zenith, 1985-1990
Apple, 1989
Clippings, 2002-2007
Computer Guide, 1982
Curriculum, 1994-1995
(Jon) Edwards, 1985-1986
IBM Pamphlets, undated
Miscellaneous, 2004-2007
Schedules, 1996
Miscellaneous, 1996
1997 Planning, 1996-1997
Publicity, 1996
PMT-FY 03, 2003-2005
Prime, 1987
Surveys (Faculty), 1995-2003
Surveys (Faculty), 1995
Surveys (Faculty), 2003
ECO, 1995
WWS, 1995
ANT, 1995
MAE, 1995
PHY, 1995
PHI, 1995
GEO, 1995
ROM, 1995
EAS, 1995
COM, 1995
POL, 1995
CLA, 1995
MUS, 1995
SLA, 1995
MOL, 1995
MAT, 1995
PSY, 1995
ART, 1995
COS, 1995
CHE, 1995
ARC, 1995
EEB, 1995
CHM, 1995
SOC, 1995
GEO, 1995
ENG, 1995
ELE, 1995
NES, 1995
GER, 1995
CIV, 1995
AST, 1995
MISC, 1995
OTHERS, 1995
Treasurer's Office, 1993
ZIP, Pete Olenick, 1966
Subseries 1E: Cassettees, Compact Discs, Floppy Discs, Reel-to-Reel Audio, and Slides, 1973-2005
Cassettes, 1988-1989
Computing and Information Technology (CIT) Orientation Slideshow Master Edit Voice Track, 1988
Computing and Information Technology (CIT) Slideshow -#2 Narration with Voice Adds 5/30/89, 1989
Slides, 1973-1993
Folders, 1973-1990
Mainframe Ops, 1987
Telecom, 1987
Alumni Records, undated
Info Cluster, 1987
Graphics Lab, 1987
Possibles, 1987-1988
MAC Fine, 1987
Dormnet, 1987
Admin Server, 1987
Printing, 1987
Series 2: Administrative and Staff Files includes subject files, multimedia, and surveys that came from the offices of numerous technology staff members. There are two distinct subject files runs that contain similar material, although Run I also includes older material and is arranged differently than Run II.
Series 2: Administrative and Staff Files is divided into the following four subseries: Subject Files, Run I; Subject Files, Run II; Surveys; and Compact Discs, Floppy Disk, Slides, and VHS Tapes.
Computer Center, 1982
PoO & 67, 1967-1968
Programming Manual, 1956
History, 1970
Super Book, 1989
Computer Center, 1982
Word Processing, 1984
UNIX facilities, 1984
JvNCnet, 1985
WHALE, 1984
Laser prints 83-90, 1990
IBM Pegasus Grant, 1984
IDEALS Computer, 1981
IBM, 1988
Fuchs Prince, 1986
Admin, 1986
Telephone System, 1986
Annual Report, 1986-1987
Information Center, 1986
ICGL, 1987
Power Outages, 1987
PRINCETON, 1987
Grants, 1987-1989
Proposed Budget, 1987
Ad Tech, 1987-1990
VAX, 1987
E-Mail experiment, 1987
Computer Clusters, 1987
Project Pegasus, 1987
Intro to CIT, 1988
Goals + Objectives, 1988
Admin Sys Review, 1988
Electronic Library, 1989
Admin 1989-1990, 1990
Introducing CIT, 1990
Fax CPTG Survey, 1991
Admin 1990s, 1990
Distributed CPTG, 1991
Annual Report, 1993
FY 86, 1985-1986
FY 87, 1986-1987
FY 88, 1987-1988
FY 89, 1988-1989
FY 90, 1989-1990
FY 91, 1990-1991
FY93, 1993
FY94, 1994
FY95, 1995
FY96, 1996
Proposal, 1990
Tillman, Irwin, 1988
Computing Manuals, 1990
logo 11/96, 1996
CIT Info Feb, 1998
CIT Info, 1997 November
CIT Info, 1997 September
CIT Info, 1997 September
@Princeton.edu, 1997
Rita's Bookmark, undated
3 Steps, 1997
Mobile Computing, 1997
Mobility Flyer, 1997
Dormnet Brochure, 1997
ID Web Page, undated
CIT Info, 1997 April
CIT Info, 1997 February
Photographs-Intro, 1983
JFP Photograph, undated
OpCIT, 1987-1996
Virtual News, 1986
SPACE, 1985
"NetMonth: a Monthly Guide to BITNET Servers and Services" (2 Folders), 1986 July-1987 November
Computing and Information Technology (CIT) and Computer Center Newsletters (2 Folders), 1982-1987
Telephone Bills, 1996
Brown, 1996
Harvard, 1996
Yale, 1996
IMAGES/LANCE, 1991
Person Tex, undated
MLA, 1993
TLG Project, 1993
ITALIAN, undated
Dormnet, 1993
IRISH-TLH, 1993
LWP, undated
Calender, 1995-1996
Miscellaneous, undated
X-gen, 1990
FORMAL, undated
WORLDSCRIPT MUSH, 1993
Greer, 1988
Middlebrook, undated
Clinton, 1988
Luce, 1990
MIROGLU/Archives, 1990
Modaressi, undated
PMI NET- OTHER, 1987
Assembler, undated
SUN, 1988-1989
SPIRES- emulator, 1993
CETH, 1992
Emulator Program, 1992
Greer, Meg, 1988-1991
New Faculty, 1985-1992
FRC, 1993
Postscript Class, 1989
Info Windows, 1988
Mailbox, 1988
NEH/Cohen, 1992
Apple Talk on IP, 1991
APS Talk, 1997
Athena, 1987
Articles (8 Folders), 1987-2002
Bitnet, 1990
Complaints, 1997
Conferencing, 1986-1990
Cornell University, 1993
Databases Fair, 1988
Dormnet, 1995-1996
EDUCOM, 1988-1992
EDUCOM Review, 1990-1998
Employees, 2005-2006
Floorplan and the Use of Space for Media Services and the Language Laboratory, 1991 October 17
Fuchs, Ira, 1988-2002
Gartner Group, 1991-1992
Glossary @ ARs, 1988
Finances, 1991
HTML, undated
Hypercomputing, undated
The Hyphen-Post, undated
IBM Manual, 1959
JvNCnet, 1991
Libraries, 1986-1996
Macintosh, 1988-1989
Miscellaneous, 1996-2001
Needed Initiatives, 1992
Network, 1994
OTA, 1990
PC Center B, 1989
PILOT, 1988-1989
PortaCOM, 1988
Portals, 2003
Princeton, 1983-2001
Project Pegasus, 1987
Quality of Service, 1998
The SAKAI Project, 2003
Seven-Year Plan, 1994
Sites H-125, 1986
SPIRES Consortium, 1989
Strategic Planning, 1993
Tigernet, 1987-1998
Varian, Melinda, 1983
vBNS Network, 1997
VMNET, 1989
Wilson 1990, 1989-1990
Subseries 2C: Surveys, 1989-2004
Results, 1989
Results, 1990
(2 Folders), 1991
Results, 1991
(4 Folders), 1992
(2 Folders), 1993
Data and Results, 1993
(3 Folders), 1994
(3 Folders), 1995
Results, 1995
(2 Folders), 1996
(2 Folders), 1997
(2 Folders), 1998
EDUCOM Survey, undated
Faculty Survey, 1995
Faculty Survey, 2003
Northwestern University Survey of Computers in the Undegraduate University Environment, 1992-1993
Compact Discs, 1992-2003
Slides, 1987-1989
Computing and Information Technology Information Center's Senior Luncheons (Job #013), 1989 May 25
Systems (Job #010), 1988
VHS Tapes, 1994
Series 3: Memorabilia includes various objects that were removed from other series in the collection due to size or form.
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
Series 4: Additional Files contains primarily promotional and educational material about the Office of Inforamtion Technology, including various newsletters.
The files within Series 4: Additional Files have not been arranged; they remain in original order.
Series 5: Computer Center Records consists of correspondence, reports, minutes, memoranda, and other materials which document the history of the Computer Center itself as well as the Department of Administrative Systems and Data Processing (1971), the Computer Center Committee (1967-1976), the Committee on University Data and Information Systems (1970-1974), and the Users Advisory Committee (1972-1973). Also includes instructional materials issued by the center circa 1986 on basic uses of computers (electronic mail and formatting documents).
The files in Series 5: Computer Center Records have not been arranged; they remain in original order.
UDIS, 1968-1974
ASDP - 1971, 1970-1971
360/91, 1968-1969
360/65, 1968-1969
360/50, 1966-1967
Series 6: VHS Recordings of Symposium in Visualization in Scientific Computing contains 10 VHS tapes dated May 9, 1988, and May 10, 1988, that document an event entitled Symposium in Visualization in Scientific Computing. Six of the tapes are dated May 9 and four are dated May 10.
This collection is organized into the following three series based on the original locations of the documents:
Series 7: Public Website, 2016-2017
The public website of the Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides students, faculty, and staff with policies and resources regarding the usage of campus technologies, including internet, computers, mobile devices, and telephones. The site also contains annual reports dating back to 2000.
The original arrangement of the files was maintained.
- Scope and Contents
The Office of Information Technology Records consists of papers and multimedia related to the administration and implementation of information technology at Princeton University. Key components of the collection include annual reports, priorities committee reports, correspondence, brochures, user and systems manuals, surveys and questionnaires on faculty and student computer usage, research material on the history of computing at Princeton, slides and photographs of computers and technology events around campus, and other records related to computing services at Princeton.
This collection also includes material related to Computing and Information Technology (CIT), the Computer Center, the Department of Administrative Systems and Data Processing, the Computer Center Committee, the Committee on University Data and Information Systems and other earlier technology departments and activities at the University, all of which eventually consolidated into the Office of Information Technology (OIT) in 2001.
Several prominent employees and administrators are represented in this collection, including correspondence and presentations by former Vice President of Computing and Information Technology Ira Fuchs and the office subject files of Jon Edwards, who served as the Assistant Vice President of Computing and Information Technology under Fuchs and later became the Coordinator of the Office of Information Technology Institutional Communications and Outreach.
The collection as a whole contains similar records within different series, and this is especially true with Subseries 1C: Staff Files, Subseries 2A: Subject Files, Run I, and Subseries 2B: Subject Files, Run II. Please see the individual series and subseries descriptions in the contents list for additional information.
- Arrangement
This collection is organized into the following three series based on the original locations of the documents:
- Collection Creator Biography:
Princeton University. Office of Information Technology
The Office of Information Technology oversees Princeton University's academic and administrative systems and the information technology infrastructure that supports them. It also provides information technology products and services for students, staff, faculty, and alumni of the University.
In 1952 the University's first computer was acquired and installed as part of a military weapons analysis group. Four years later the department of Electrical Engineering offered a course on digital computer programming for the first time. In 1961 the University's first Computer Center was created in Beggs Hall of the Engineering Quadrangle as a resource for students and faculty seeking to make use of the young technology of the computer. The initial director was electrical engineering professor Edward McCluskey, who held the position until 1966, when Roald Buhler assumed the directorship.
By the time construction began in 1966 for a new Computer Center located at 87 Prospect Avenue, its functions were considered to be a University-wide scholarly resource that members of the University community could use without charge. Mirroring the upgrade in the facilities was an upgrade in computing equipment, as the original IBM 7090 models in the computer center were replaced with the more advanced IBM 360/91 and later the IBM 370/158, capable of far more complex tasks. As computers became an increasingly common sight on campus and were integrated into student life and academics, the Computer Center continued to expand in size and importance. In 1971 Administrative Systems and Data Processing merged with the Computer Center operation and in 1974 the Interactive Computing Graphics Laboratory was established, which held a number of time-sharing terminals and supporting equipment.
In 1984 faculty and student committees on computing recommended decentralizing computing and the University received a Pegasus grant from IBM which allowed for more workstations and the refining of the technical infrastructure. The position of the Vice President for Computing and Information Technology was created in 1985 to coordinate University-wide computing matters, and the office was comprised of four major areas: Information Services, Financial and Contractual Services, Systems and Operations, and Administrative Services and Information Systems. The hiring of Ira Fuchs in this new position led to numerous improvements, including the expansion of the computing staff, the orchestration of Tigernet as a campus telecommunications infrastructure, and the renaming of the Computer Center as the Computing Center, which reflected the movement from centralized to distributed computing. The Office of Information Technology was created in 2001, and the new organization expanded the administrative support system and goals of advanced scientific research of the previous technical infrastructure into all aspects of teaching, research, scholarship, and administration for the University.
Currently, the Office of Information Technology consists of six departments: Academic Services, Administrative Information Systems, Enterprise Infrastructure Services, Support Services, Administration and Finance, and Project and Consulting Services. These departments enable the effective use of information technology in support of Princeton University through various goals, including supporting the use and development of information technology to enable academic innovation, providing leadership in planning for the effective use of technology, providing a reliable technology infrastructure, maintaining reliable employees, and enabling communication and collaboration among information technology professionals and users of information technology.
- Acquisition:
Series 1-3 were transferred to the University Archives by Jon Edwards of the Office of Information Technology in March 2010. [AR.2010.027].
The paper records and digital files from Series 1: Jon Edwards Office Files came directly from Edwards's office and were generated by him during his tenure at Princeton. Series 1 also includes material that was deposited in Edwards's office by various staff members immediately before a departmental move from 87 Prospect Avenue to a new location at 701 Carnegie, on Canal Pointe Boulevard in 2010. Similarly, the files in Series 2 (with the exception of Subseries 2A) were donated to the archive prior to the move in 2010. The subject files in Subseries 2A were housed together in the Office of Information Technology and were an accumulation of records from the offices of numerous technology staff members dating from the late 1950's until 2007.
Series 4 was transferred to the University Archives in 2002. [AR.2002.006]
Series 5 was transferred to the University Archives by Ira Fuchs prior to 2000. However, the instructional materials in Box 39 arrived as a separate accession (AR.2012.147).
In 2019 an Operating System/360 Chart in series II was deaccessioned because of its oversize format and the information is available elsewhere.
- Appraisal
Appraisal has been conducted in accordance with Mudd Manuscript Library guidelines. Materials separated from this collection during processing in 2010 include duplicate journals and books already represented in Princeton University Library.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Nicole Milano in 2010. Finding aid written by Nicole Milano in August 2010. Additions were processed by Christie Peterson with assistance from Eleanor Wright '14 in December 2010 and January 2011. Digital materials in Series 2D was processed by Elena Colon-Marrero in July 2015
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This collection contains materials acquired from an unknown desktop computer. Researchers are responsible for meeting the technical requirements needed to access these materials, including any and all hardware and software.
- Credit this material:
Office of Information Technology Records; Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8s45q8851
- Location:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (scamudd): Boxes 1-40; S-000239
- Other Finding Aids
Full text searching of this collection's archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.
- Subject Terms:
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Computer engineering and computer science.
Computer engineers.
Computer networks.
Computer systems.
Computers and college students -- New Jersey -- Princeton.
IBM computers.
Information technology.
Universities and colleges -- Information technology. - Genre Terms:
- Born digital.
Color slides.
Correspondence
Photographs, Original.
Surveys (documents)
Web sites. - Names:
- JSTOR (Organization)
Princeton University. Computer Center.
Princeton University. Computing and Information Technology.
Princeton University. Information technology.
Princeton University. Office of Information Technology
Edwards, Jon.
Fuchs, Ira H.