Monitor (Bowling Green State University)

Collection

Identifier: UA-0098

Staff Only

Collection Overview

Abstract

Complete run (1973-2012) of Bowling Green State University's Monitor newsletter for faculty and staff.

Dates

Creation: 1973 - 2012

Extent

2.60 Cubic Feet (3 letter size archive boxes, 2 legal size archive boxes, 2 flat archive boxes)

6 Reels (6 microfilm reels)

Creator

Bowling Green State University. Office of Marketing and Communications (Organization)

Scope and Contents

This collection comprises the full run of the Monitor, an official BGSU publication from the Marketing and Communications Department (formerly known as the News Service) covering various university topics of relevance to faculty and staff. The entire run of the Monitor (1973-2012) is available on microfilm, while original print copies are also available for the years 1995-2012, with some exceptions. This collection also includes a handwritten index of the Monitor for the period 1983-1995. The index lists article titles from each issue, as well as corresponding page numbers and supplemental information related to the article.

Biographical / Historical

The Monitor was an official publication of Bowling Green State University written by the university's Marketing and Communications Department (formerly known as the News Service) for faculty and staff. The newsletter covered various university related topics, including policy announcements, activities of various committees and governance bodies, the actions of the university president and the Board of Trustees, and other significant events related to the university's academic community.

The Monitor was first published in 1973 as a monthly newsletter until 1976, when publication was suspended. In April of 1978, publication resumed on a bi-weekly basis. From 1981 forward, it was published on a weekly basis, until its last issue in January 2012. Marketing and Communications consolidated some of their publications and decided to cancel the Monitor and instead focus on its other publication, the Zoom News.

Conditions Governing Access

No known access restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Researchers using this collection assume full responsibility for conforming to the laws of libel, privacy, and copyright, and are responsible for securing permissions necessary for publication or reproduction.

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Issues and accompanying index are arranged in chronological order.

Existence and Location of Copies

Additional copies of the Monitor exist in print, microfilm, and digital form as follows:

Additional print copies of the Monitor have also been cataloged and made available under the call number pUA-2291.

Within this collection (UA-0098), original print copies of Monitor issues from 1995-2012 are also available on microfilm; the order of microfilming for these issues relative to the arrangement of the original print copies is as follows:

Roll 4: January 1995 - June 2002 (Boxes 1-3)
Roll 5: July 2003 - December 2006 (Boxes 3-5)
Roll 6: January 2007 - January 2012 (Boxes 5-6)

In addition to the microfilm and/or print copies, nearly the full run of the Monitor (October 1973 – April 2011) has also been digitized and is available on the University Libraries' institutional repository, ScholarWorks. These PDF copies are available for download and full-text search.