International Union of Immunological Societies records -
Organization and Provenance Information
Organization
This collection is organized into five Series: I. Officers & Council, II. Membership, III. Meetings, IV. Committees, and V. Affiliated Organizations. Each of these series is further divided into the following subseries.
- Series I. Officers and Council – Boxes 1-21
- Subseries:
- Correspondence
- Council Meetings
- Reports
- Miscellany
- Accounting
- Series II. Membership – Boxes 21-26
- Subseries:
- Member Payments
- Member Societies and Regional Federations
- Directories
- Series III Meetings – Boxes 26-30
- Series IV. Committees – Boxes 30-36
- Subseries:
- Organization
- Clinical Immunology
- Commission for Europe
- Education
- Nomenclature
- Publication
- Standardization
- Symposia
- Veterinary Immunology
- Series V. Affiliated Organizations – Boxes 36-39
- Subseries:
- European Federation of Immunological Societies (EFIS)
- International Training & Research Center (ITR)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
- Miscellaneous Organizations
Provenance and Acquisition Information
This collection came to the archives in nine different accessions:
MSS 95-02 donated by Alain De Weck of the Inselspital Institut fur Immunlolgie umd Allergologie. Bern, Switzerland on April 19, 1995.
MSS 95-10 donated by Gustof Nossal of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, The Royal Melbourne Hospital. Victoria, Australia on July 17, 1995.
MSS 95-14 donated by Richard G. Miller of University of Toronto department of Medical Biophysics. Toronto, Ontario, Canada on September 18, 1995.
MSS 96-09 donated by Bernard Charley of the Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaires, INRA. Jouy en Josas, France on April 2, 1996.
MSS 96-10 donated by Michael Sela of the Department of Immunology, Weizman Institute of Science, Israel on April 25, 1996.
MSS 99-01 donated by Bernard Charley of the Virologie et Immunologie Moleculaires, INRA. Jouy en Josas, France on January 11, 1999
SARCV 99-05 donated by Keith James of the Lester Research Labs., University Department of Surgery, Royal Infirmary. Edinburgh, Scotland on May 20, 1999.
SARCV 99-07 donated by Henry Metzger of NIAMS, NIH. Bethesda, Maryland on August 20, 1999.
SARCV 2000-06 donated by P. Nieuwenhuis of the Histology dept. University of Groningen. Gironingen, Netherlands on May 30, 2000.
SARCV 2011-02 donated by Gerlinde Jahn of the Vienna Medical Academy.
SARCV 2011-03 donated by Masayuki Miyasaka of Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine.
Processing Information
This collection was processed under the supervision of Marcia Frank Peri and completed in March 2001. Additional minutes were added to the collection in March 2011 by Graduate Assistant Colleen Walter.
This collection of the records of IUIS arrived over a period of five years in eight separate accessions each of which had been inventoried reboxed, and refoldered maintaining its original order. At the time of processing it was determined that the best approach would be to organize them together as a single collection. The arrangement of documents was determined by the original order of the largest aggregate of materials, with adjustments being made when similar materials, with slightly different arrangements, overlapped. Therefore, for example, the correspondence from each accession was arranged together in date order by year and then by sub-divided by officer; even though some of the correspondence came in arranged by officer, because the bulk of the documents had that as their original order. Similarly, with the financial and accounting documents, the arrangement was based on the incoming order most commonly used.
Multiple copies have been disposed whenever there were more than two copies of a given document, as have old checks and checkbooks.
In the Spring of 2010, the Council meeting minutes were scanned and made available for online viewing through UMBC's Digital Collections (CONTENTdm). The minutes were scanned for access only by Michael Dick, Circulation, and metadata creation was completed by Sujata Sharma and Amelia Jennings, Special Collections student assistants, under the supervision of Lindsey Loeper, Special Collections Archivist. In Summer 2011, born digital minutes from 1998-2011 were sent to Special Collections and added to the digital collection; metadata creation was completed by Molly Bradtke, Special Collections student assistant, under the supervision of Lindsey Loeper, Special Collections Archivist.
Related Materials: Records of the American Association of Immunologists, the American Type Culture Collection, and the American Society for Cell Biology, the Society for Developmental Biology, the American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Biochemistry & Molecular Biology.
