Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research of the University of North Carolina Records #40179, University Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Provenance

Periodic transfer from the offices that create these records.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• College teachers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Jenkins, William Sumner, 1902- .
• Library of Congress. Records of the states of the United States of America.
• Public records--United States.
• State government publications--United States--Collection and preservation.
• United States--History--Sources.
• United States. Works Progress Administration.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--History--20th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962). Dept. of Political Science.

The University of North Carolina's Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research undertook a joint venture with the Library of Congress to collect and microfilm the early records of the states and to make this source material widely accessible. The resulting microfilm publication is The Records of the States of the United States of America. Professor William Sumner Jenkins was director of the Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research from its establishment in 1941 until his retirement from the university in 1967. For a thorough history of the State Records Microfilm Project, see "Collecting and Using the Records of the States of the United States," by Jenkins, filed as folder 29 of the records group.

The records of the University of North Carolina Bureau of Public Records Collection and Research consist of the files of its director, Professor William Sumner Jenkins. The material prior to 1941 consists of Jenkins's correspondence as professor of constitutional law in the University of North Carolina Department of Political Science. These files also contain materials on Jenkins's Work Projects Administration (WPA) project to collect the legislative records of the states. In 1941, the WPA project was incorporated into the Library of Congress-University of North Carolina project to produce The Records of the States of the United States of America.