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Record Group: 11 C Record Sub-Group: 18 Records Title: UMC; School of Journalism; Freedom of Information Center; Administrative Records Dates: 1958-1980 Volume: 2 cubic feet, 2.5 linear feet Scope and Content Note (A95-158) This Sub-Group contains administrative records pertaining to the School of Journalism, Freedom of Information Center. In 1959, the Freedom of Information Center was established in a ceremony commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Journalism. Financed by funds given for programs during that anniversary. After that time, regular annual fund raising campaigns began. From 1958-1986, Paul L. Fisher was director of Freedom of Information Center. Following that time administration of Freedom of Information Center became the responsibility of the director of University of Missouri-Columbia Libraries. The Center remained part of the University Libraries until 2001, when it was returned once again to the MU School of Journalism. Materials in this Sub-Group include committee minutes, correspondence, financial information, and fund raising feasibility and development. Series Descriptions: This Sub-Group is not divided into separate record series. The records in this Sub-Group retain the creating office's original order. Inventory Box 1 FF 1 through FF 11 - Freedom of Information Center Advisory Committee 1959-1975 FF 12 through FF 17 - Freedom of Information Center Foundation Trustees 1966-1975 FF 18 - Freedom of Information Center Building Committee (feasibility study and fund raising program for building, never built), 1963-1969 FF 19 - Freedom of Information Center Fund Raising Feasibility Development (includes survey by Robert Johnson Corporation to determine the advisability of long-range fund raising projects), 1969-1973 FF 20 - Freedom of Information Center Fund Raising Committee, 1974-1976 FF 21 through FF 25 - Freedom of Information Center - Fund Raising, 1961-1978 FF 26 - Freedom of Information Center - Fund Raising - Foundations, 1961-1974 FF 27 through FF 29 - Freedom of Information Center - Fund Raising - Sustaining Members, 1964-1974 FF 30 - Freedom of Information Center - Fund Raising - Travel, 1973-1974/ Box 2 FF 31 - Financial Reports, 1971-1975 FF 32 - Freedom of Information Seminar (seminar to plan the Freedom of Information Center at MU held as a result of a conference by the Freedom of Information Committee of the National Editorial Association), 1958 FF 33 through FF 41 - Freedom of Information Conference (annual conferences with "themes" such as " The Peoples' Right to Know and the Protracted Cold War" and "The Contemporary Encroachment on the Student's Right to Read", Cross Memorial Lecture was also part of program), 1958-1966 FF 42 - Cross Memorial Lecture, 1962-1965 FF 43 - Freedom of Information Center Five Year Plan, 1975 FF 44 - Freedom of Information Center Washington, D.C. Office, 1968-1972 FF 45 - Liaison, Professional Association, Freedom of Information Committees, ca.1960-1966 FF 46 - Correspondence - General, 1963-1967, 1974-1981 FF 47 - Correspondence - Prisoners, 1966-1980 FF 48 through FF 49 - Correspondence - Service (opinions and research concerning freedom and access to information), 1958-1966 Search our Holdings