SI Records
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 197, National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director, Records
These records are chiefly files of the Director's Office, 1964-1969, 1971-1972. During the earlier period a complicated subject-numeric system was in use. In 1971 a simpler subject-numeric plan was used and replaced before the end of that year by a straight alphabetic subject file, which is the current office filing system. A full history of the Director's Office and of its filing systems can be found in Record Unit 155.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
The records in this series have been arranged in alphabetic order in various subject categories, and in a digital system within those categories. Each of the general subject categories is denoted by an abbreviation, e.g., the subject category "Policy" is abbreviated POL. A full file plan for this system can be found in record unit 155, box 144.
Records of a project to create a computerized data bank of information about the vascular plants of North America north of Mexico.
Records of a series of teaching conferences in systematic biology, primarily for senior postdoctoral academicians and research scientists in biology, in order to familiarize participants with modern practices, problems, solutions, and techniques in systematics.
These records from the Director's Office are filed by a new method which replaced the cumbersome system of series 1. The system contains general subject categories, each designated by a number, with records arranged numerically within each file. This system was abandoned after 1971. (See series 5 for its successor).
These records of the Director's Office follow a current/noncurrent record filing plan first instituted in 1972, which is based on a simplified alphabetic subject arrangement.
This series consists of miscellaneous office records and photographs created during the time interval shown and, for various reasons, not filed into the office subject filing system.