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This series contains files on individuals that Professor Bliss was interested in historically, such as Sir Albert Edward Kemp, businessman and politician, and men about whom he wrote biographies, including Sir Joseph Flavelle and Sir Frederick Banting, but particularly on the research that he undertook for his biographies of Sir William Osler, William Osler: A life in medicine (1999), and Harvey Cushing, Harvey Cushing: A life in surgery (2005).

While most of Professor Bliss’ research files and drafts of his manuscripts for The Discovery of Insulin and Banting: A Biography are held in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, this series contains extensive notes he took while researching those books and associated articles, along with some correspondence and a partial draft of one of the chapters in the insulin volume.

Regarding Sir William Osler, only selected research files have been retained. The files kept have one or more of the following: extensive notes on the folders themselves; significant marginalia or highlighting of articles and correspondence by Osler; and original material such correspondence, offprints of articles, drafts of addresses, and papers written by others about Osler’s life and career. The first part of this series has files arranged chronologically by the particular year of Osler’s life; they are followed by other files by name of person or organization and arranged almost entirely in the order kept by Professor Bliss. Following the files on Osler are Professor Bliss’ research files on Harvey Cushing. The same policy as for Osler regarding retention and arrangement has been followed, and the range of material in the files is similar.

This series documents some of Professor Bliss’ consulting activities, primarily regarding editorial issues and legal cases. Digital files include transcripts and notes related to a video project of interviews of leaders in academic medicine and biomedical research conducted by Bliss on behalf of the Friends of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Interviewees include: Dr. John Evans, Dr. Phil Gold, Dr. Arnold Naimark, Dr. Brenda Milner, Dr. Fraser Mustard, Dr. Allan Ronald, Dr. Charles Scriver, Dr. Calvin Stiller, and Dr. James Till.

Also included is an opinion brief about the dissolution of Parliament for the Prime Minister’s Office (2008), and files relating to Bliss’ consultancy on the documentary project Clergue’s Phoenix.

This series consists largely of material (correspondence, notices, programs, and newsletters) relating to the activities of the American Osler Society for most of the years from 1994 to 2012. These files contain the annual general meeting programs; a range of associated notices, minutes, committee reports, financial statements, and social event material; precis of papers delivered and the texts of a couple of addresses by Professor Bliss who was president of the Society for 2010-2011. Accompanying these files are a number of articles on Sir William Osler; copies of the Oslerian, the Society’s newsletter; the membership directory for 2011; and some copies of the John P. McGovern Award Lectureship, including the address delivered by C. David Naylor in 2012. Precis of addresses Professor Bliss gave at these meetings are included in the programs. The remaining substantial file in this series documents Professor Bliss’ four-years (2012-2016) on the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of History.

Digital files document Bliss’ role on the Board of Trustees of the Canadian Museum of History and include meeting agendas, minutes, and reports; his role as a Board member of Associated Medical Services (2008-2009); and his membership and participation in activities of the American Osler Society.

Professor Bliss describes his scrapbook project in this way: “In 1983 I began keeping a "scrapbook" folder, in which I deposited copies of all my newspaper and magazine articles, reviews of my books, programmes of meetings, invitations, tickets, and other personal and family memorabilia. A few years later I employed daughter Laura to do occasional secretarial work for me, and she became the keeper and organizer of the scrapbook file into formal scrapbooks, ten of which were filled. After Laura moved away, my secretary, Andrea Clarke, kept scrapbook folders, the results of which are in my 2006 Donation [B2006-0015]. I also kept a personal scrapbook file, which, after retirement from the university in 2006, became my only scrapbook file.”

From 1994 on, the “scrapbooks” consist of loose material of the same type of as in the previous volumes, only now the storage medium is archival folders.

This series contains correspondence and associated material documenting Professor Bliss’ relationship with the University of Toronto, including his initial employment and retirement. Of particular interest is a file from the early 1980s of letters documenting his discontent with the University administration and on the controversial Back Campus Fields project, related to the Pan American Games in 2015. The latter demonstrates that in retirement Professor Bliss’ critical eye on University policy had not diminished. The Massey College memorabilia covers the years (1994-2005) of his membership on the Massey Corporation as a Senior Fellow.

Digital files consist of course syllabi and lecture notes, and some humorous writings related to his membership at Massey College.

This series consists of additional correspondence files up to 2017. Digital files consist of comment’s on a draft of Michael Marrus’ memoirs, correspondence about the documentary Plague, and a folder of letters of recommendations and appraisals of colleagues.

This series begins with files on Professor Bliss’ family background in the Bliss and, particularly, the Crow (Crowe) family, and his early correspondence with his future wife, Elizabeth (Liz) Haslam. Some of the early family material belonged to his mother, Anne Lavelle Crow, including correspondence, diaries, her marriage to Quartus Bliss, and a few of her short stories and speeches, and a family photograph. These files are followed by ones on Professor Bliss’ education, a selection of personal and family photographs, and early letters with members of his family and with Elizabeth Haslam before their marriage. Later in life, when Professor Bliss took up running to improve his physical fitness, he kept a series of journals and photographs documenting his progress. One of Professor Bliss’ daybooks (for 2002) is also present, along with files on honours bestowed on him. Also present are a few examples of political memorabilia (C. D. Howe, Joe Clarke).

Digital files include digital photographs of Bliss’ induction into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame in 2016 and files related to honorary degrees (citations, addresses).

This series extensively documents the publishing of books researched, written and/or edited by Prof. Rayside. For each of his published monographs, there exist manuscripts of the book at various stages of writing as well as manuscripts of related talks or papers. His ongoing relationship with publishers and grant providers is documented in correspondence, progress reports and grant applications. There is also extensive research documentation in the form of notes, transcripts of interviews and original recordings of interviewees.

Series consists of files that document Morgan’s role as a supervisor to undergraduate and graduate students and her role in assessing her colleagues both internal and external to the university. Includes files on the PhD students she supervised which includes correspondence, thesis drafts, and reference letters; letters of reference for undergraduate students applying for scholarships and to graduate school; internal and external PhD appraisal reports; assessments of colleagues who are up for promotion or tenure; and letters of reference for academic colleagues who are up for promotion or an award. Included is also a photograph of Morgan with a group of female graduate students she supervised in the 1990s.

Series includes materials primarily documenting Morgan’s graduate-level education at Johns Hopkins University and her pursuit of academic work post-graduation. Includes personal statements and applications for graduate school, fellowships and scholarships, drafts of her M.Ed thesis (“Jerome Bruner's Theory of Knowledge: A Critique”) and PhD thesis (“Merleau-Ponty's Critique of Descartes: An Evaluation”).

Also included in this series are files of personal correspondence from the 1990s, a passport photo of Morgan from 1963, photograph of Morgan with friend & colleague Paula Caplan, and photograph of Morgan holding her son Daniel.

Box 002P: Canadian History Slide collection: 12 double-trays of slides containing 1,216 black-and-white and colour illustrations relating to the widest possible number of subjects in Canadian history. Printed list of the contents. [includes double tray of slides (#501-600) removed from box 012 – note by Harold Averill].

Box 003P: Smallpox slide collection: Two double-trays containing 93 slides of illustrations relating to the Montreal smallpox epidemic of 1885; compiled to illustrate Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal. Printed list of slides. (Some, but not all of these slides were made from prints in the folder in Box 24)

Prints, negatives, relating to themes in Canadian business history – and general history. 3 folders, approx 300 pictures. Most of these were accumulated as possible illustrations for Northern Enterprise: Five Centuries of Canadian Business; most came from collections I had access to as described above. Some of the best of the prints were made into slides, as above; but not all.

Note from Bliss: "These files consist of all my incoming and most of my outgoing correspondence for the last 22 years of my career at the University of Toronto. Most of it is filed in rough chronological order, though sometimes there are indexes. I am not consistent about back-to-front or front-to-back filing. Some of my correspondence is filed according to specific subjects. Particularly specialized correspondence, such as student reference letters, is in other series. My filing systems were always fairly ad hoc, and especially in the 1980s everything tended to be thrown into the general correspondence files, as it came in, everything lumped together, including much family material that should be in the files in series 2. Major changes in my system occurred late in 1986 when I first began using a computer for my correspondence, and again in 1995 when I moved to 88 College and had the help of a secretary, Andrea Clark. Generally these files contain material of every kind relating to a busy family, writing, and professional life."

Family correspondence, 1976-1982 and a file of documents regarding the estate of Anne L. Bliss.

Note from Bliss: "About 1972 I began making typed appraisals of essays, with carbons. Thus I had a copy for reference, which was particularly useful in commenting on second essays. My filing of these, as well as general letters of evaluation, has always been erratic and inconsistent. Often I did not keep copies of letters of evaluation - I've written thousands of them, it seems"

Note from Bliss: "These files include extensive correspondence with my mother; some correspondence with my brother, J.Q. Bliss, who died in 1969; much correspondence regarding my young brother, R.Q. Bliss; letters from members of Elizabeth Bliss's family; and the beginnings of correspondence with our children."

Note from Bliss: "These files consist of virtually all of my ingoing and outgoing correspondence, beginning in the summer of 1967 when we moved to Harvard to be Claude Bissell's Teaching Assistant during his tenure as Mackenzie King professor of Canadian Studies there. The normal organization is simply by date - but my filing system has never been meticulous and many letters may be out of order [users are welcome to straighten them out by date], or may have slipped into other files in the collection. Some correspondence with particular colleagues and/or friends has been filed separately for some years. Some important letters or exchanges have been given separate files. The correspondence is highly professionel - with a wide range of Canadian historians and covering everything of interest to young historians - and also personal, containing correspondence with family friends and students, political letters [I was extremely upset about the Vietnam War, and wrote to various political figures] and many others.

The files relating to my editorship of the Social History of Canada series bet ween 1971 and 1976 could have been put in Series 3, but are included in this series because so many of the letters contain material of more general interest. As well, quite a bit of Social History material found its way into the general files, so they also go together for user convenience."

Includes files related to the publication of "Canada's Illustrated History".

Note from Bliss: "This was a 16- volume illustrated history of Canada, published between 1974 and 1977 by a subsidiary of McClelland & Stewart, on which I was historical consultant. Folders 06-25 contain appraisals, correspondence, evaluations, annotated chapters, et cetera, relating to the books in the series. Some files are listed by the book's author, others by the decade covered. The most noteworthy book in the series is probably that written by Margaret Atwood on the period from 1820-1840, the book of hers that has been least noticed. Folders 9 and 10 contain my appraisals of her work and comments on her manuscript."

From 1989 to 1993, Morgan chaired the School of Graduate Studies (SGS) Gender Issues Committee which was tasked to advance gender equity at SGS and raise retention rates for women. Initially titled “Women’s Issues Committee”, Morgan argued that the committee needed to do empirical research including all graduate students in order to determine what might be attributable to gender with respect to equity considerations, and as a result the committee was renamed “Gender Issues Committee”. The committee undertook a large empirical research project, surveying all female graduate students at the U of T (approximately 4000) and 1000 male graduate students.

Committee members:

• 1989-1990: Eleanor Cook, Ursula Franklin, Niall Byrne, James (Jim) Prentice, Jennifer Nedelsky, Lois Reimer, Angela Hofstra (graduate student), June Larkin (researcher)
• 1990-1991: Catherine Grise, Ursula Franklin, James (Jim) Prentice, Alison Li (graduate student), Lois Reimer, Sam Minsky, June Larkin (external researcher), Sylvia Bashevkin, Rachel Webster (post-doc), Jennifer Nedelsky, Joe Carens

The Final Report was never tabled, but nevertheless several of the recommendations were implemented by SGS and the University.

Files include: background readings and reports of similar work being conducted at other universities and in other areas of the U of T in parallel; literature reviews; minutes, correspondence, and memos; draft recommendations and feedback by Rose Sheinin, Ursula Franklin, Bruce Kidd, David Rayside, Alison Prentice, Ann Saddlemyer, Frank Cunningham, Lorna Marsden; quantitative data and qualitative data categorized by sex and SGS division; conference presentations and reports to campus groups including the SGS Council of Deans.

This series consists of ephemeral items collected by Morgan documenting second-wave feminist events and organizing, as well as gender issues at the U of T, and in Toronto and Canada more broadly. Themes include sexual harassment, violence against women, affirmative action, pay equity, and women’s health. Includes newspaper clippings, events posters, pamphlets, directories, reports, and minutes. Also included are several pins with feminist slogans.

During her career at the U of T, Morgan served on a number of university committees including the Advisory Committee to the Status of Women Officer (1988-2004), the U of T Academic Board (1991-1997), the Faculty of Medicine’s Gender Issues Committee (1994-2001), and the Woodsworth College Council (1998-) and Academic Advisory Committee (2001-). Records in this series document her participation on these committees and include minutes, reports, and related correspondence.

Records in this series document Morgan’s activities within the units to which she was appointed at U of T: Philosophy, Women’s Studies (later Women & Gender Studies), Bioethics, and the Institute of Medical Sciences.

Throughout the course of her career, Morgan was an active member of numerous professional organizations including: Philosophy of Education Society (PES), Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP), the journal Hypatia, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), and the Canadian Women’s Studies Association (CWSA). Records in this series include correspondence, newsletters, and conference programmes documenting Morgan’s participation and membership in these groups. There are also files documenting the creation of CSWIP, first as a “Women’s Caucus” of the Canadian Philosophical Association, before becoming its own Society in 1976.

Also included in this series are records documenting the first Canadian conference on Women’s Studies – “Women, Power and Consciousness,” held at New College, October 30-November 1, 1981. This event was organized by Paula Caplan, Sylvia Van Kirk, and Mary Anne Wilson, with support from Morgan who also spoke at the conference.

Series consists of grant applications written or contributed to by Morgan over the course of her career. It begins with files focused on specific grants, mostly for Social Science of Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) funding.

The bulk of the records in this series document Morgan’s participation in the SSHRC-funded Feminist Health Care Ethics Research Network led by Susan (Sue) Sherwin of Dalhousie University. Members included Françoise Baylis, Marilynne Bell, Maria DeKoninck, Jocelyn Downie, Abby Lippman, Margaret Lock, Wendy Mitchinson, Janet Mosher, Barbara Parish, with Ariella Pahlke working as the group’s research / administrative assistant.

The group co-wrote the book, The Politics of Women’s Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (Temple University Press, 1998). Files document this group’s activities and includes correspondence, newsletters, and drafts of the book manuscript.

Records in this series document Morgan’s research and writing outputs, including draft journal articles, book chapters, talks, and conference presentations. Records trace her various research interests as they evolved over the course of her career, from her early interests in the philosophy of education to later research in gender, sexuality, women’s health, and reproductive technologies. The end of this series also includes several files of correspondence related to her published material and conference talks and contains correspondence with colleagues and editors.

Series consists of Canadian editorial cartoons collected by Hershell Ezrin. Illustrators include Brian Gable, Andy Donato, and Patrick Corrigan. They cover various Ontario and federal political events such as 1995 referendum and former government aide Ms. Durcos’ comments regard President George Bush.

Series consist of books and publications given to Mr. Ezrin, many of which include inscriptions from authors and others. Material also provides context to aspects of Ezrin’s career such as the 1985 Ontario election and his time at Molson Companies Limited.

Series contains photographs documenting both the personal and professional life of Hershell Ezrin. Included are family photographs covering Ezrin’s childhood, young adulthood, and images of his own family in the 1990’s. Also included are images from Ezrin’s time in government, including some from the constitutional negotiations of 1981 and autographed portraits of former Ontario premier David Peterson. Also includes group portraits from awards ceremonies, including the 2002 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

Series consists of records related to Mr. Ezrin’s professional roles. These focus primarily on his time in government, both federal and provincial. Records cover his work in diplomatic roles in New Delhi, Los Angeles and New York, as well as publicity surrounding the Constitution. Three files document Ezrin’s involvement on the Debate Committee preparing Liberal leader John Turner for the federal debate in 1988. Series includes one file of meeting minutes, correspondence, and remunerations from Ezrin’s period on Torstar board of directors.

Series consists of presentations given by Mr. Ezrin within various academic, governmental, corporate, and community environments. Addresses cover a period following Ezrin’s departure from government and discuss topics regarding public policy, international trade, political leadership, and lobbying.

Among venues included are Consumer and Corporate Affairs Canada, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, as well as presentations for Jewish community organizations such as the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Series 2 consists of two subseries, both of which cover business, networking, and personal communication sent and received by Hershell Ezrin. Though both encompass similar subjects and time periods, Subseries 2.1 contains more materials related to Ezrin’s time in government while Subseries 2.2 focuses more heavily on his business contacts.

Series consists of material documenting Mr. Ezrin’s education and activities at the University of Toronto, in addition to biographical material from various stages in his career. Series also includes press clippings and scrapbooks chronicling his professional accomplishments and transitions, with particular focus on the 1980s and time in provincial politics. Material also includes scrapbooks chronicling the 1987 Ontario Liberal election campaign for David Peterson. Contains some oversized material including documents and texts that celebrate Ezrin's diplomatic, governmental, and business contributions.

The records in this series relate to Professor Careless’ teaching activities at the University of Toronto. Between 1945 and 1992, Professor Careless taught various undergraduate and graduate courses on historiography, early Canadian history, urban history, and metropolitanism, The records in this series predominantly consist of mark books, 1945 to 1992. Also included are some course outlines and lecture notes. This series also includes an NFB film The Inquiring Mind (1959) in which Careless discusses the changing study of history and his philosophy on the study of history.

This series documents Dr. Evans’ professional involvement, often as chair or a member of the board of directors, of many of the organizations noted in his biographical sketch (and some that are not). Organizations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, where the bulk of the files obviously remain in the head offices, are still documented sufficiently to provide an overview of Dr. Evans involvement. A few organizations – the African Medical Research Foundation-Canada, the Commonwealth Fund, and Vartana, for example – have little documentation (the last because it is so new). Most organizations fall in between and for two, the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Medical and Related Science Research District (MaRS), the files are so extensive that each rates its own series (see Series 3 and 4).

The files contain correspondence, memoranda, minutes of meetings, reports and associated background material. Dr. Evans made extensive handwritten notes and many of his memoranda are scattered throughout the files, along with annotated material he was working with. The arrangement is alphabetical by the name of the organization.

Dr. Evans was frequently approached as new initiatives were started in the fields of medicine, education and related social policy. One of these was the Boreal Institute, a charity founded in 2004 that focuses on contributing to economic and social development, internationally and in Canada by serving as an enabler and capacity builder for civil society. By the end of the year he had arranged for seed funding for the Institute and had attracted a number of influential backers such as Joseph Rotman. In 1998 Dr. Evans became involved in an ongoing reassessment of the role of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), a review that included, over the next three years, a series of discussions and meetings at the highest level, including Prime Minister Chrétien’s office. Another project was the Cancer Research Institute of Ontario, founded in 2003. It immediately won the support of MaRS and its chair, Dr. Evans, who also was selected chair of the Institute in 2005. The single file in this series documents the work of its Ad Hoc Advisory Group. In 1995 Dr. Evans’ served on a panel that assessed the work of the Essential National Health Research concept as carried out by the Council on Health Research for Development, based in Geneva. He was also a member of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation. The principal file here relates to the Apotex/Nancy Olivieri controversy.

Dr. Evans has been closely associated with the Pew Charitable Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Bank which, collectively, supported a United Nations initiative, the International Health Policy Program. The files document his involvement with the program from 1994 to 1996. Another organization with close links to the Pew Charitable Foundation is the John E. Fetzer Institute, Inc. of Kalamazoo, Michigan that, in 1995, hired Dr. Evans as a consultant to assist in planning and implementing its program. This he did, partly through chairing its advisory committee on frontier medicine, on which he kept detailed files.

The project that established Dr. Evans’ reputation at the international level was his innovative work as founding dean of the Faculty of Medicine at McMaster University and, in particular, the construction of its innovative Health Sciences Centre. Most of the records pertaining to his deanship and the Centre project are, understandably, at McMaster University, but this series contains Dr. Evans’ copy of its original program, with accompanying planning reports and some photographs. There is also an oral history interview with him on the beginning of the faculty, with accompanying photographs, and two later files on other administrative matters.

In 2004 Dr. Evans was invited by the Premier of Ontario to chair a new body, the Minister’s Commercialization Advisory Council, the inaugural meeting of which was held in January 2005 and which continued throughout the year. Following these files are two others, one each on the Ontario Cancer Research Network, which he chaired from 2003 to 2005 and on the Ontario Research Council. There are no files on the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research of which Evans became chair in 2005.

The Pew Charitable Trusts funds a wide variety of research projects, two of which are documented in this series. In 1993 the Pew Center for Civic Journalism, launched a project called “Renewing our democratic heart” and invited Dr. Evans to become a member of its board of directors. Meetings held throughout 1993 and 1994 are documented here. He also agreed to chair the advisory board for the Pew Global Stewardship Initiative which studied American population policy, consumption patterns, and stewardship in relation to the formation of policy nationally and internationally. The files run through to mid-1996 and also document the contribution of Thomas Homer-Dixon of the University of Toronto.

Dr. Evans’ formal association with the Rockefeller Foundation began in 1979 when it asked him to head its Commission on the Future of Schools of Public Health, for which he produced an international study of public health and population-based medicine, ‘Measure and management in medicine and health services’. The work on this project extended to late 1981, even though he left the Foundation after several months for the World Bank. The files contain correspondence and meetings related to his study, along with his working files. There is also one unidentified notebook of notes on meeting(s) Dr. Evans attended, with a photo of attendees at one of the Bellagio conferences (see also Series 5). He joined the Foundation’s board of directors in 1982 and served as its chair from 1987 to 1995, the first Canadian to do so, and has maintained a close association with the Foundation. The single file from the period of his chairmanship documents his Foundation funded visit to Myanmar in November 1994 as UNICEF external advisor on health research and management for child survival and development.

In Toronto, Dr. Evans was a member of the steering committee of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, a coalition of civil leaders in the Toronto region. It met with officials, from the premier down, produced an action report and supported a number of initiatives to strengthen community service. It worked closely with the Toronto Region Research Alliance and other organizations such as MaRS. The files date from late 2003.

There are a few files on the University of Toronto: on the teaching of the cardiovascular programme in the Faculty of Medicine (1970), on an International Health meeting hosted by the Department of Medicine in 1998, on strategic planning for the Department of Surgery (2004), and on the Rotman School of Management (2002). Next is a single file on a board of directors meeting in June 2005 of Vartana, a charity with a mandate to develop Canada’s first financial institution dedicated to meeting the needs of voluntary sector organizations.

When Dr. Evans joined the World Bank in 1979, it was the beginning of a long relationship that often included the Rockefeller Foundation. The earliest files document his work with the Population, Health and Nutrition Department, which he founded, but most relate to his work from 1995 to 1997 with the Ad Hoc World Bank/Rockefeller Orphan Drug and Vaccine Project relating to the development, licensing and supply of AIDS vaccines to the under-developed world. The files contain detailed correspondence, notes, memoranda, minutes, and reports with government and corporate bodies.

The last files in this series document Dr. Evans’ work with the World Health Organization on two projects. The first was its Executive Board organizational study on “The role of WHO in training in public health and health programme management” (1981), followed by its Ad Hoc Review on Health Research in 1995-1996. The files contain notes, minutes, addresses, reports, and background material.

This series contains a scrapbook of geometric drawings that belonged to Alicia Boole Stott (1860-1940) who originally termed the word “polytope” to describe a four dimensional convex solid. Stott was the third daughter of mathematician George Boole and a colleague of Coxeter. The two met in 1930 and worked on various problems together early in Coxeter’s career. Stott died in 1940.

This series includes photographs of Stephen Clarkson at conferences and professional events, as well as social events and family photos. There are several publicity photos for books, including those with Christina McCall for Trudeau and Our Times, and photographs received as part of research for Canada and the Reagan Challenge (1982) and Trudeau and Our Times (1990, 1994), including photos of Stephen Clarkson with P. E. Trudeau and Uncle Sam and US (2002). Publicity photos of Christina McCall are also included. There are also a few early group portraits from Clarkson’s time at Upper Canada College and Trinity College.

This series document’s Gotlieb’s role in several University of Toronto committees and initiatives, mainly relating to computers and their increasing use in the teaching and research functions of the University. Except for two small files dealing with the FERUT project in the 1960s, the committees documented here date from about the early 1980s to 2001. This was a time that saw exponential growth in the use and access to computers, first with the proliferation of personal computers and later with the development of the Internet. Included are files on the Toronto Waterloo Cooperative on Information Technology 1981-1985, the Working Group for a Canadian Electronic Text Network 1988, and the Identity Technology Working Group (Smart Card Review Committee). There are extensive printed e-mail files containing reports, discussions and correspondence for the Information Highway Working Group. This latter group was loosely related to the University since more that half its members were Faculty. It played a consultative role to the federal government on the development of the Internet.

Also included in this series are records relating to the Task Force on Academic Computing and New Media. It includes correspondence, e-mail, reports, surveys and notes from meetings. This Task Force was the successor of the Task force that set up the Information Commons. It was mandated to focus on “exploiting the academic computing and new media to enhance teaching and research, to enhance the communication among members of the University, and to connect effectively with a wider, external academic computer” [1].

NOTES

1. Report of the Task Force on Academic Computing and New Media, Working Draft 5, Feb. 14 2000 p. 3.

Includes reports, memos, correspondence, minutes, agendas documenting the many committees in which Dr. Marsden was involved. Most significantly are the Centenary Celebration of Women Committee, the Pay Equity Working Group and the Presidential Equal Pay Committee. Also documented in this series is Dr. Marsden's interest and involvement in the status of women at the University of Toronto as well as her time spent as Vice-President of the University of Toronto Faculty Association. Series also includes scarf produced to fundraise for celebrations of 100th anniversary of first enrolment of women at UofT, and accompanying explanatory letter from Marsden.