AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO Information Department records, Major News Publications
Collection
0078-LBR-RG20-001
The Information Department was the publishing and press release arm of the AFL-CIO. This collections contains printed record copies of the major news publications issued by the AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO, including The C.I.O. News, A.F. of L. Reporter, AFL-CIO News, and American Federationist.
This collection is open to the public and must be used in the Special Collections reading room. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws before using this collection.
Photocopies or digital surrogates may be provided in accordance with Special Collections and University Archives duplication policy.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs unless otherwise specified. It is the researcher's responsibility to secure permission to publish materials from the appropriate copyright holder.
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61.00 Linear Feet
This collection comprises copies of the major news publications produced by the AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO. It is divided into series reflecting major changes in title and sometimes in structure of the organizations. Series 1 contains The CIO News, Series 2 lists the AFL and AFL-CIO publications that were most similar to and continued The CIO News, Series 3 lists the journal-type publication, The American Federationist, and Series 4 lists unbound copies of the publications.
This collection is organized into four series:
The George Meany Memorial Archives transferred these records as part of a major transfer of their archive and library holdings to the University of Maryland Libraries in 2013.
Lee Sayrs at the George Meany Memorial Archives initially processed these records in 1999. The University of Maryland Libraries received the records and the finding aid in 2013. In 2017, Bria Parker exported and cleaned the finding aid contents from the Eloquent Systems database using OpenRefine, and finally transformed the finding aids into Encoded Archival Description (EAD) using a series of programmatic scripts. The finding aid was ingested into ArchivesSpace in 2018, at which point Rebecca Thayer updated the descriptive content for accuracy. Revisions include changes to biographical/historical notes, scope and content notes, and the creation of new collection numbers. Rebecca Thayer also enhanced custodial histories and re-wrote collection titles to better conform to archival standards. In 2020, Jennifer Eidson updated Series 4 to show container as box instead of volume, and added links for requesting materials from Series 1-3.
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