The Reprint Series contains copies of reprints sent to SIA members
arranged alphabetically by author. This series also includes some but not
all reprints sent to members.
The Short Course and Seminar Series contain agendas, notes and
handouts for seminars and courses to which SIA members were invited.
It also includes costs and receipts for these events.
Subject Files Series consists of John E. Bennett's chronological files
dated July 1974-April 1975, press releases sent to SIA members,
proposals and funding requests submitted to the SIA Advisory
Committee, and requests received by SIO from SIA companies. The
series also includes George Shor's "SIA Log" dated 12 May 1978 to
November 13, 1990, which records contact, phone calls and memoranda
concerning SIA during that period.
The Tapes and Films Series includes audio cassette tape recordings, still
photographs and video tape of SIA seminars. It also contains some slides
projected at SIA seminars.
Related Collections: There are about six linear inches of files on Scripps
Industrial Associates in the records of the SIO Office of the Director
(Nierenberg) in boxes 59 and 60. Material in these files include early
documents about the establishment of SIA, SIA Advisory Committee
minutes, budgetary material and reports of the program manager, John
Bennett. There is one folder of material on Scripps Industrial Associates
in SIO Subject Files, Box 17, folder 38. This folder contains pages
listing the benefits of membership.
Provenance: The files that comprise this collection were received from two main sources. George Shor annually transferred his
non-current SIA files to SIO Archives beginning in the 1970's. By 1996, this material comprised two cubic feet and consisted
largely of agendas and handouts from SIA seminars. On November 7, 1995, the Geological Data Center (Stuart SmithNirginia
Wells) decided to transfer four bankers boxes of non-current SIA files, including printouts of computer membership files, to SIO
Archives. On September 19, 1996, GDC found and transferred to SIO Archives another two boxes ofSIA files. Both bodies of
records documented SIA activities for the same period. The SIA records received from George Shor were arranged
chronologically. The SIA records received from the GeologicalData Center were arranged in five series. Their original order was
maintained, the Shor files were added to the Seminar Series.