{"id":1636,"date":"2014-10-23T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-23T16:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/?page_id=1636"},"modified":"2026-02-13T20:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T20:15:25","slug":"alumni-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/about-the-archives\/donate-records\/alumni-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Records commonly transferred to the Archives include:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Biographical information: resumes, vitae, bibliographies, memoirs, genealogies, and published and manuscript biographical sketches<\/li>\n<li>University of Illinois correspondence and files: outgoing and incoming correspondence, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks that provide documentation of college experience relating to enrollment, attendance, involvement in student and alumni organizations and activities<\/li>\n<li>Professional correspondence (outgoing and incoming) with business associates, colleagues, and professional organizations<\/li>\n<li>Personal correspondence with other University of Illinois alumni<\/li>\n<li>Course material: class notebooks, student papers, exams, and correspondence relating to academic career at the University of Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Publications: one copy of all articles, books, reviews, or works of art<\/li>\n<li>Audio-visuals: photographs, films, and sound and video recordings<\/li>\n<li>Family correspondence, diaries, photographs, and financial and legal documents, except where there is family interest in retaining and preserving such materials<\/li>\n<li>Summary financial records where relevant to business and career activities documented elsewhere in the papers<\/li>\n<li>Organizational records and correspondence relating to membership and participation in professional and social associations, clubs and societies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Items generally not transferred to the Archives include:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Detailed financial records, canceled checks, and receipts<\/li>\n<li>Routine correspondence, especially non-personally addressed mail and routine letters of transmittal and acknowledgment<\/li>\n<li>Duplicates and multiple copies of publications: keep only the original and heavily annotated copies;<\/li>\n<li>Typescripts, drafts, and galleys of publications and speeches unless the final publication or presentation is unavailable<\/li>\n<li>Books, research papers, journal articles, and reprints written by other persons<\/li>\n<li>Research notes and data if a summary of the data is available and transferred; bibliographic notes and notes on reading.\u00a0 (Because of wide variations in the nature of research data, it is best to consult with the Archivist before discarding research notes and data.)<\/li>\n<li>Artifacts and memorabilia. The Archives does not collect non-documentary objects except in cases of great importance and a manageable physical size and condition. Please call the Archivist to discuss options for preservation of such objects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please transfer material in the order in which it was maintained. A brief inventory identifying the types of records included should accompany the transfer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>When in doubt, don&#8217;t throw it out!<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records commonly transferred to the Archives include: Biographical information: resumes, vitae, bibliographies, memoirs, genealogies, and published and manuscript biographical sketches University of Illinois correspondence and files: outgoing and incoming correspondence, diaries, photographs, and scrapbooks that provide documentation of college experience relating to enrollment, attendance, involvement in student and alumni organizations and activities Professional correspondence (outgoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"parent":1630,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1636","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13057,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1636\/revisions\/13057"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}