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The adult education holdings are collectively known as the
Alexander N. Charters Library of Resources for Educators of Adults.
Finding aid created by: MRC
Date: 14 Sep 2010
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| 23 Oct 2025 | processed (CPS) |
Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Syracuse University Kellogg Project. |
| Title: | Syracuse University Kellogg Project Records |
| Dates: | 1977-1994 |
| Quantity: | 3 linear ft. |
| Abstract: | Documenting the history of adult education archival collections at Syracuse University. Collection includes reports, registers of collections, audiocassettes, data tapes, and other material. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center/university-archives |
The Syracuse University Kellogg Project was instituted in 1986 with the aim of increasing the visibility of and access to the University's extensive archival collections in the field of adult education. The project was sponsored by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation of Battle Creek, Michigan, and based in the Adult Education Graduate Program. The goals were to process, promote research on, and provide broad access to the collections using the then-cutting-edge technologies of laser discs and optical character recognition (OCR). The program predated the general use of the Internet and as such encountered numerous challenges in terms of technology, interoperability, and proprietary software/hardware.
The Syracuse University Kellogg Project Records contains files relating to the adult education project.
Administrative records contain documents relating to the internal administration and structure of the project. This includes rosters, budget information, and grant details. There is also a small amount of meeting agenda and minutes related to the internal advisory board.
Clippings consist of two folders of clippings relating to SU's adult education collections and articles about adult education in general.
Correspondence-subject files primarily consist of information about individuals and companies involved in the project. of note are the files related to Plexus Computers, which helped facilitate the transfer of data onto the then cutting-edge technology of optical disks.
Recordings include a number of oral histories about adult education, as well as recordings regarding conference in the early 1990s. All recordings are stored on cassette tapes.
Reports make up the majority of the collection. These reports include newsletters, several academic paper series, and progress reports relating to the status of the Kellogg Project. There are also several reports providing an inventory of SU's adult education collections as they existed at the time of the project's execution.
Administrative records, clippings, correspondence-subject files, recordings, and reports are ordered alphabetically.
Access Restrictions:
The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.
Access to recordings requires advance notice in order for staff to produce a use copy.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Persons
Charters, Alexander N.
Hiemstra, Roger.
Corporate Bodies
Syracuse University Kellogg Project
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Subjects
Adult education -- History.
Adult education -- Research.
Adult education -- Study and teaching.
Archival materials -- Digitization.
Educational technology -- Information storage and retrieval systems.
Information technology projects.
Genres and Forms
Audiocassettes.
Budgets.
Clippings (information artifacts).
Correspondence.
Grant proposals.
Minutes (administrative records).
Newsletters.
Reports.
Sound recordings.
Tape drives.
Thesauri.
Occupations
Educators.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Syracuse University Kellogg Project Records,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Bulk of material, gift of Roger Hiemstra, 1999.
Additions, gift of Alex Charters, 2005.
Administrative Records
Clippings
Correspondence subject-files
Recordings
Reports
| Administrative Records | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | About the project undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Budget 1986, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Call for porposal of digital storage system 1987, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Event information 1988 | ||||||||||
| Grants | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kellogg Application Program 1988-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Proposal to establish the Kellogg Discipline History Center July 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Proposal to the Kellogg Foundation May 1986 | ||||||||||
| Internal advisory board | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Meeting agendas and planning 1987-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Meeting minutes 1987-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Rosters, advisory boards and staff undated | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Database backup] Informix Archive 3/13/91 - presumably database backup at end of project (Magnetic data tape: 9-track) (ID#: kellogg_proj_026) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Database backup] root dump 3/13/91 - presumably database backup at end of project (Magnetic data tape: 9-track) (ID#: kellogg_proj_027) | ||||||||||
| Clippings | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | About SU adult education collections 1986-1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Miscellaneous 1985-1987, undated | ||||||||||
| Correspondence subject-files | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | AEDNET (Adult Education Network) undated | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Candidates for adult education professor/historian 1986-1987 | ||||||||||
| Two candidates: Martin, Theodora Penny; Rachal, John | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | Charters. Alexander 1986-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Coherent Research, Inc. 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Davis, Carolyn 1986-1987 - Internal advisory board member. | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Hinton, Marybeth 1986 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Keenan, Terry 1986-1989 - SU's adult education librarian at the time of the project | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Kellogg Room 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Optical disk system 1986-1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Plexus Computers database 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | Plexus Computers phase II 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Stanley, Manfred 1986-1990, undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Visiting scholar program 1987-1989 | ||||||||||
| See also: Reports: Visiting scholar conference. | |||||||||||
| Recordings | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Alex Charters AUEC/ACHE [Association of University Evening Colleges/Association of Continuing Higher Education] 1-21-88 - interview with Alex Charters done by Lydia Lavin; includes release form (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_002) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Alexander Charters interview 3/2/88 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_004) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Bill and Delight [Dixon] Omohundro: Market research, tape 1 (Audio cassette; running time 60:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_024) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Bill [and Delight Dixon] Omohundro: Market research, tape 2 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_001) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Biography 1 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_022) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Biography 2 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_023) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Challenges to writing history, parts 1 and 2 3/23/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_021) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Challenges to writing history, part 3; The development of concepts, part 1 and 2 3/23/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_015) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Class issues (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_006) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Harold] Stubblefield/[Patrick] Keane 3/21/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_018) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Patrick] Keane: History Conference, Syracuse 1990 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_009) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Helen S.] Cameron/[Amy D.] Rose; D. Sharp/[Jeffrey] Zacharakis-Jutz 3/24/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_013) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Jeffrey] Zacharakis-Jutz (continuation); [Colleen M.] Sexton/C. Morgan; C. Morgan/[Joan N.] Burstyn 3/24/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_017) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Joan N.] Burstyn (continuation); Evaluation and Planning 3/24/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_020) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | History Conference introductions 3/17/91 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_012) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Huey B.] Long/V.M. Shah 3/23/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_014) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Luke (beginning) (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_016) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Michael Laven Pamphlet Collect 6/18/87 (Audio cassette; running time 93:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_003) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Otey Scruggs (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_010) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Otey Scruggs (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_011) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Panel: Implications of race, class, and gender in historical research, tape 1 3/17/91 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_005) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Panel: Implications of race, class, and gender in historical research, tape 2 3/17/91 (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_007) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | [Paul Jay] Edelson/[Hilton] Bonniwell]; [Hilton] Bonniwell/C. Casey 3/22/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_019) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | C. Casey (continuation) 3/22/90 (Audio cassette) (ID#: kellogg_proj_025) | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Summary session (Audio cassette; running time 90:00) (ID#: kellogg_proj_008) | ||||||||||
| Reports | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | Blue book summary label descriptions July 1987 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Adult and continuing education collections: a descriptive list of manuscript holdings May 1977 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Computers and the elderly program at SU" August 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | Cursory examination of the contents of 140 boxes and 2 envelopes undated | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Introduction to archival research" May 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | "Kellogg Project's International Information Sharing Network" by Dosa Martin August 1987 | ||||||||||
| New Horizons | |||||||||||
| Box 2 | v. 1-2, no. 1 and 5/13/88 1987-1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | v. 2, no. 11/21/88 1988 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | v. 3, no. 12/89 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | v. 4, no. 9/90 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | v. 5, no. 1 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Newsletters 1987-1990 | ||||||||||
| Occasional Papers | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | No. 1 "Radical thinking in adult education" February 1989 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | No. 8 "Information transfer as development assistance" May 1988 | ||||||||||
| Progress Reports | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1990-1991 report 1991 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1991-1992 Report 1992 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | 1991-1992 Report 1992 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | 1992-1993 Report 1993 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Final report 1994 | ||||||||||
| Technical reports | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | No. 1 "Computer conferencing" February 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | No. 2 "Documenting adult education" Octboer 1989 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | No. 3 "The electronic journal" February 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | No. 4 "English language adult education books" February 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | No. 5 "Adult education thesaurus" April 1991 (3 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | No. 5 "Adult education thesaurus" April 1991 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | No. 6 "Kellogg library and archive retrieval system" August 1991 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Update on activities May 1990 (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Visiting scholar conference | |||||||||||
| See also: Correspondence-subject files: Visiting scholar program. | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Codification and exclusion" by Paul J. Edelson 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | "Twentieth century social and contextual factors..." by Huey B. Long 1990 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Miscellaneous 1986-1989 | ||||||||||
| "Some modes of information dissemination"; "School of Information Studies Kellogg Project component 1987"; "Result of the Kellogg Project indexing subcommittee's work"; "Quarterly report for the period Jan.-Apr. 1989." | |||||||||||