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This series contains alumni directories, material related to alumni reunions, and material donated by Roderick McCrae documenting his volunteer service in Laos and his work for IVS Washington in the 1960s.

This series comprises the records of IVS's governing bodies. The series is largely arranged chronologically, although the merging of two separate files of meeting mintues resulted in some deviation from a strict chronological order. The minutes include staff reports, budget information, policy discussions, and other documents generated in governing IVS.

These files document the adminsitration of IVS, particularly its efforts to grapple with funding and organizational difficulties in the 1980s and 1990s. Contents include articles of incorporation and by-laws, communications from IVS executive directors to field directors, reports evaluating IVS as an organization, workplace, and private volunteer organization, and policy and procedure documents. Researchers will also find speculations on the future of IVS during uncertain economic times for the organization.

The collection consists of seven series:

Series 1: Executive Committee / Board of Directors Meeting Minutes, 1953-2001 Series 2: Project Files, 1952-2002 Series 3: Executive Director Files, 1953-1997 Series 4: Publications, 1954-2003 Series 5: Alumni Materials, 1963-2000 Series 6: Photographs, 1960-1995 Series 7: Miscellaneous, 1973, undated

Audiovideo presentations on the Village Volunteer Program and Small Entrepreneurship in Bangladesh, undated; Interview (in French) with IVS volunteer and prisoner of war, Marc Cayer, 1973; Reel to reel recordings (also transferred to CD) of Laotian folk music collected by IVS volunteer Henry Holmes, 1962-1964

Divided into three subseries: negatives, slides, and prints. Negatives and slides are poorly labeled, often only identified by country or region. Prints are somewhat better identified. The series also includes several pictorial reports and scrapbooks.

This series documents the work IVS oversaw in developing countries around the world. Most of this series consists of reports written by volunteers, field directors, regional directors, and other IVS personnel. The project files were pieced together from a number of different types of files -- alumni files, report files, field director files, etc. -- and therefore are not consistently arranged or described. The earliest reports are filed chronologically. Later materials are organized alphabetically by name of country or region. Under each country or region name, researchers will find materials ordered roughly by date, project name / region, or volunteer last name.

Formal publications issued by IVS, including newsletters, annual reports, books, brochures, and magazines.