Yavapai College Library
The Yavapai College/Boyd Tenney Library archives contain extensive information on the founding and operations of Yavapai College as well as a collection of publications issued under the auspices of the College. Yavapai College archives consist of newspaper materials about the College, catalogs, periodicals, handbooks, reports, yearbooks, brochures, and the minutes of meetings of the Governing Board, the division chairs, and the Faculty Association.
In addition, the College has been a repository for US Government documents since 1973. They receive approximately 14% of everything the government publishes. When it is time to bring this collection up to date, library personnel choose what the college and this community want to keep. Most of the items the library keeps are area specific. What they do not keep goes to the State Archives.
Researchers must obtain permission to work in the archives and coordinate their activities with Mollie Gugler, the librarian currently responsible for the archives (phone: 520-776-2274).
Rare Books (not in circulation)
Aven, William P. Reminiscences of One Macedonian- Tales of a Macedonian: personal history of growing up in Prescott area. Self-published, 1969.
Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution by J. W. Powell, Director. Washington Government Printing office, Volumes: 1886-87; 1887-88; 1895-96, 1896-97, 1899-190019 01-02, 1905-06, 1907-08, 1911-12
Dodge, Richard Irving. Our Wild Indians: 33 years of Living among Them. Hartford: A. D. Worthington & Company, 1882.
Hearings before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources of the Committee on Interior and
Insular Affairs US Senate, Ninetieth Congress, May 2-5,1967.
Yavapai College Publications:
- Yavapai College student newspapers, 1970- through the present, under various names:
Ruff-riter, Roughrider, YC News, Mile High Echoes
- Roughnotes (internal newsletter): 1989-present
- Threshold (creative arts magazine) all issues
- Annual: Rough Rider, January 1970, January 1972 (when it was discontinued)
- Dateline: bi-annual publication, beginning, in the fall of 1972 and extending through the fall of 1981
- Reveille, college 'feature' magazine, Dec 1969-Jan 1971
- Adjunct faculty newsletter, 1992 issues
- Folder with various books from creative writing exercises done at the Pioneers' Home, Samaritan Village, Adult Day Care, students writing on their own lives, Dec. 1987, fall, 1988, spring 1988, spring 1989
- "Retirement College Anthologies," 1979
Maps
The library has a large selection of USGS maps. It probably has no maps that are unique. The library may, however, have geological and topographical maps put out by the State of Arizona that other libraries would not have.
Blueprints
The blueprints of all college facilities are in the possession of the Facilities Director.
Reports:
- Annual reports: some from the Verde campus, some from specific areas, like instruction; these have been collected since the founding of the college
- North Central Association [materials on accreditation]: Copies of status study and self studies since the opening of college, 1970; video to accompany self study, 1994
- Nursing Department Accreditation Reports
- Program and service reviews, various
Records and manuals
- Faculty manual (1970) which evolved into policy manual; they appear to have old and updated versions to the present
- Faculty handbooks
- Various studies compiled by the college, student surveys, area surveys
- Campus committees: Minutes from various committees (faculty and administrative), miscellaneous, various dates
- Copies of various needs assessment surveys
- Copies of various other surveys done by Yavapai College Institutional Research
- Copies of all college catalogues 1969-present
- Copies of most promotional material
- Curriculum brochures
- Announcements of new programs
- Student handbooks
- Sports publications and brochures
Copies of minutes
- College Academic Council meetings: 1967-89
- College Board of Governors, 1967-present
- Some faculty and student committees, various committees, various dates
Scrapbooks
These are filed and identified by the year beginning in 1965, before the college was built. They contain all of the local newspaper articles pertaining to Yavapai College; some other area newspapers may or may not be included
Photos:
7 folders and 15 books of miscellaneous prints and negatives having to do with the College, not catalogued or identified
