Reference Request
Finding Aids to Official Records of the Smithsonian Institution Archives
Record Unit 373
Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Coordinator of Public Information
Records, 1977-1984
Collection Overview
General Information About This Collection | |
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Repository: | Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu. |
Creator: | Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Coordinator of Public Information |
Title: | Records |
Dates: | 1977-1984 |
Quantity: | 11 cu. ft. (11 record storage boxes) |
Collection: | Record Unit 373 |
Language of Materials: | English |
Summary: | These records consist primarily of administrative files of Lawrence E. Taylor as Coordinator of Public Information, 1977-1984. Also included are copies of the minutes of the Board of Regents, 1977-1983. |
Historical Note
The Office of the Coordinator of Public Information was created in 1977 to manage public relations at the Institution. The Office of Public Affairs, the Office of Special Events, and the Office of Congressional Liaison were placed under its jurisdiction.
Lawrence E. Taylor served as Coordinator of Public Information from 1977 until his retirement due to illness in 1984, when the office was abolished. During his tenure, Taylor established the Smithsonian News Service, which wrote and distributed stories to newspapers around the United States.
Descriptive Entry
These records consist primarily of administrative files of Lawrence E. Taylor as Coordinator of Public Information, 1977-1984. Also included are copies of the minutes of the Board of Regents, 1977-1983.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following access terms. These are links to collections with related topics, persons or places.
Name
- Smithsonian Institution -- Administration
- Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Congresssional Liaison
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
- Smithsonian Institution. Office of Special Events
- Smithsonian news service (Serial)
- Taylor, Lawrence E.
Subject
Physical Characteristics of Materials in the Collection
Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 373, Smithsonian Institution, Office of the Coordinator of Public Information, Records
Container List
Box 1
Advertising - Comments
Advertising
Advertising - Smithsonian Name
A. C. Lyles' Proposal
Airplane
American Association of Museums
American Embassy Association
American Presidency (book)
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Annual Report
Archives, Smithsonian
Archives of American Art
Articles by Robert Hilton Simmons
Attendance
Audio-Visual
Office of Public Affairs (OPA) - Audit, Budget
Aquarium
Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act
Archives of American Art
Art Bank
Asbestos
Associates
Astrophysical Observatory
Auction of SI Victorian Furniture, etc.
Automatic Data Processing
Awards
Banking Practices (SI)
Barney Studio House
Belmont
Bill-S.421
Birds
Black History Trail (Willard Hutt)
Black Politics
Brochures-SI
Budget
Budget - FY 1981
Budget - 1983
Budget - 1982
Budget - Hearings, FY 1982
Budget - FY 1984
Budget - FY 1985
Budget - Mr. Taylor, private
Building Usage - OM (Office Mememoranda) 724
Bureau Directors Meetings
Business Management
Calendar for Events for SI
Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies
Child and Family Justice Project (National Council of Churches)
Children's Museum
Civil Service Reform
Club of Rome - March 2, 1982
Collections Management
Communications and Transportation Services
Congress
Congressional Liaison Office
Congressional Night at NASM (National Air and Space Museum)
Congressional Night at the Zoo
Conservation
Coordinator for Public Information
Ethics in the Government
Cooper-Hewitt
Coral Reef Articles
Box 2
Cultural Property
Deer Control, CRC (Conservation Resource Center)
District of Columbia
Elderly Programs
Endangered Species
Equal Employment
Erica Jong
Exhibitions
Evolution
Executive Committee
Facilities Use
Filming at SI (Outside)
Films
Finance Committee
First Amendment (includes Erica Jong)
First Lady's Fellowship
Five-Year Plan
Flack
Folklife Festival
Folklife Center - Library of Congress
Freedom of Information
Freer Gallery
George Washington's Teeth
Gifts and Donations
Grants and Risk Management
Great Tzotzil Dictionary
Grievance File
Handicapped
Hearings - 1983 (empty folder)
House Hearings - 1983
Hearings - 1980/1982
Hiring Freeze - October 1978
Hiring Freeze - 1981
Hirshhorn Museum
Holiday Celebrations - 1982
Holocaust File
Holocaust File (II)
Hours (Museum)
Hughes Report
Inaugural
Indiana
Inquiries and Requests
I.O.U.'s
Box 3
Inquiries and Requests - 1982
Inquiries and Requests - 1983
International Exchange Service
International Trade Commission Building
Inventory
Job Applications
Job Description
"Judaica Exhibition"
Kellogg Foundation
Kids School Publications (7-9) News Service
Labor Disputes
Last Mall Site Reservation
Legal Matters
Living Buildings Programs
Loan Committee
Logo, Smithsonian
Management Analysis Office
McDonnell Foundation (Gerald Meyer)
Meserve Collection (2 folders)
Old Woman Meteorite - 1983
Old Woman Mountain Meteorite - 1981
Old Woman Mountain Meteorite - 1982
Meteorite-Old Woman Mountains, 1977-1979 (5 folders)
Metric Conversion
Map Project
M.I.T. (Centerbeam)
Microfilming
Milton Bradley Toys at SI
Museum of African Art
Museum of American Art
Museum of American History
Museum of Natural History
Museum of the Building Arts
Museum of the City of Washington
Museum of Man
Museum of Natural History, Meteorite-Inyo County
Museum Support Center
National Portrait Gallery
National Diversity Act
Box 4
NASM
National Anthropological Film Center
NASM-Dulles Facility
National Capital Planning Commission
National Collection of Fine Arts
National Council for Traditional Arts
National Endowments
National Gallery of Art
National Geographic
National Park Service
National Portrait Gallery
News Service (2 folders)
Office of Audits
Office of Equal Opportunity - A&I 3160, Director
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Office of Facilities
Office of Fellowships and Grants
Office of International Activities
Office of Management and Budget
Membership and Development
Office of Membership and Development
Office of Personnel Management
Office of Public Affairs - 1981-1982
Office of Public Affairs - 1979-1980
OPA - Annual Report
OPA - 1977-1978
OPA - Personnel (1982/1983)
OPA - 1984
OPA - News Releases
OPA - Responses to Inquiries
OPA - 1982-1983
OPA - News Releases, 1983-1984
OPA - Personnel, 1977-1978
Box 5
OPA - Personnel, 1979
Olympic Construction Company - Hearings (2 folders)
Office of Public Service
Office of Secretary of Administration
Office of Secretary of History and Art
Office of Resource Management
Office of Secretary of Museum Programs
Office of Supply
One Nation Under God
Outreach Awards
Oversight Hearings - Original
Oversight Hearings
Papal Visit
Parking
Peabody Museum
Peace Corps
Performance Plan (LT) - 1982-1983
Performing Arts
Pension Building
Permissions: Use of Smithsonian Name
Personnel
Personnel Actions
Personnel - Awards and Honors Program
Personnel Administration Task Force
Photographic Services
Photography
Donald Portness Materials (2 folders)
SI Policies
Postal Rates
Presentation Book
Presidential Order on Periodicals, Pamphlets and Audio-Visual Material
President's Reorganization Plan
Product Development
Promotion
Public Buildings Act of 1981
Public Service Announcements
Publications Publicity
Public Works (also see: Olympia Construction Co.)
Box 6
Quadrangle (10 folders)
Radiation Biology Laboratory
Regents (2 folders)
Reptile House
Research
Restoration and Renovation
Resumes
Research Institute on Immigration Ethics Studies
Regents
Research Report
S. Dillon Ripley (Successor)
Ripley
Box 7
Safety - Asbestos, etc.
Savings Bond Campaign
Science, Assistant Secretary for
Security
Senate of Scientists
Seidell Property
Simmons
SI Traveling Exhibition Service
Smithson Book
Smithsonian Associates
Smithsonian Council
Smithsonian Associates - Regional
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (including Mt. Hopkins)
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Smithsonian News Service
Smithsonian Magazine
TV "Smithsonian World"
Smithsonian Research Foundation
Smithsonian Institution Women's Council
Smithsonian Year and Secretary's Statement
Special Events - Personnel
Speakers Bureau
Special Events - OM 224
Special Events (2 folders)
Special Events - Personnel (Old)
Speeches
Smithsonian Science Information Exchange (SSIE)
Star Wars
Box 8
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
Symposia and Seminars
Tee-Shirts Collection
Telecommunications
Telephones
Thefts
Time and Attendance
1982 Tourism Committee
Torch Training
Travel
Trust Funds
Trustees and The Future of Foundations - Papers by J. Nason
Underground Parking
Under Secretary
Upward Mobility Program
Unsolicited Proposals for the Future of the Smithsonian Institution
Value Added Tax
Visitor Information
Washington Post - Blaine Harden
Washington Post - Ted Gup (2 large envelopes)
Ted Gup (Post)
Welcome Brochure
Susan Werner
Women's Committee
White House Correspondence
Yorktown Bicentennial
Visitors and Tourists
Zoo
Box 9
Exhibitions
Meteorite Letters
Museum Support Center
Quadrangle - 1983
Performance Plans
SI World
Quadrangle - July 1981-December 1981
1983 SI Position Listing
Canoeing
Proposed A&I Building Map
Budget
Film Policy
Budget - FY 1982-1983
Maine Coastal Research
Mater Dei School
Minorities Committee
Job Descriptions
Endowment
Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program (POBSP) File
Box 10
Minutes of the Board of Regents - 1977-September 1983
Box 11
Mall Parking Study - DC #7800121
Chronological Files - July 1977-December 1983
Accounting Statements - FY 1978
Policy and Procedures - Uses of Appropriated Funds
Budget - FY 1979
Budget - Special Events, 1977-1978 (2 folders)
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