The volume contains minutes of faculty meetings, notes on projects, and a few miscellaneous notes of the department manuscripts cataloger, Ann L.S. Southwell. Minutes briefly note department events including the first year of operation of the newly established Archives section, the transfer of the Walter Reed papers to the medical library archives and the John Paul and Allen papers to the law library archives, the loss of Jefferson material in the Proctor's papers, the visit of Rumer Godden, the decision to make the unicorn the Special Collections symbol, acquisition of Rowan Oak papers, C. Waller Barrett's 80th birthday party, pre-preliminary plans for Special Collections building, air-conditioing in Alderman, the introducition of computers, coffee drinking in library, the first vault shelf reading, Japanese Faulkner scholars, and other matters important, routine and best forgotten.
