Inventory of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Records, 1903-1985

Collection Number 4600

Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Collection Information

Descriptive Summary

Administrative Information

Online Catalog Headings

Historical Note

Collection Overview

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Records, 1903-1985.

Contact Information:: Manuscripts Department; CB#3926, Wilson Library; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890; Phone: 919/962-1345; Fax: 919/962-3594; Email: mss@email.unc.edu; URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/

Descriptive Summary

Repository: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.

Creator: Southern Newspaper Publishers Association

Title: Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Records, 1903-1985

Call Number: 4600

Language of Materials: Materials in English

Extent: Items: About 65,000; Linear Feet: 99

Abstract

The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA), was founded in 1903 with the purpose of advancing the welfare of member newspapers. SNPA serves its more than 400 members in 14 states by acting as a clearinghouse for information relevant to Southern newspapers, sponsoring annual and special topic meetings, and publishing various newsletters.

Materials relating to the SNPA and its member newspapers, including files on standing and special committees; conventions; SNPA sponsored conferences, meetings, and clinics; and various special projects, such as promoting the use of newspapers in education and investigating opening a newsprint plant to serve member newspapers. Also included are SNPA history materials that include file copies of documents important in the development of the organization over the years. Among these items are several panoramic photographs taken at early SNPA meetings. Also included are file copies, some bound, of most SNPA publications. Most materials date from the 1960s through the 1980s, though there are earlier publications and some earlier records.

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Administrative Information

Restrictions to Access: No restrictions.

Acquisitions Information: Received from the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in December 1991.

Processing Information: Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, December 1991; Encoded by: Eben Lehman, May 2006; May be used with staff assistance. Materials are generally in the order in which they were received.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association Records #4600, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Journalism -- Societies, etc.

Newpapers -- Southern States.

Newspaper publishing -- Southern States.

Newspapers in education.

Newsprint industry.

Southern Newspaper Publishers Association.

Historical Note

The Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA), was founded in 1903 with the purpose of "advancing the welfare" of member newspapers. SNPA serves its more than 400 members in 14 states by acting as a clearinghouse for information relevant to Southern newspapers, sponsoring annual and special topic meetings, and publishing various newsletters.

Collection Overview

Materials relating to the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association (SNPA) and its member newspapers, including files on standing and special committees; conventions; SNPA sponsored conferences, meetings, and clinics; and various special projects, such as promoting the use of newspapers in education and investigating opening a newsprint plant to serve member newspapers. Also included are SNPA history materials that include file copies of documents important in the development of the organization over the years. Among these items are several panoramic photographs taken at early SNPA meetings. Also included are file copies, some bound, of most SNPA publications. Most materials date from the 1960s through the 1980s, though there are earlier publications and some earlier records.

Detailed Description of the Collection

1. Records, 1903-1985.

About 65,000 items.

Box 1-3

Committees.

Files on various standing committees and on committee appointments. Includes Editorial Committee, Newspapers in Education Committee, Journalism Education Committee, Personnel/Labor Committee, Planning Committee, Smaller Newspapers Committee, Production Committee.

Convention files.

Includes files on site selection, programs, hotels, speakers, and other arrangements for SNPA annual conventions. There is only a small amount of material for conventions held in the 1960s. Note that files are arranged in reverse chronological order.

Box 4

1985-1983

Box 5

1982-1981

Box 6-7

1980-1979

Box 8-9

1977-1964

Box 10-11

Conferences, Meeting, Clinics

Production/mechanical conferences, 1937-1985

Personnel/labor workshops, 1983-1985

Human resources management seminars, 1981-1982

Personnel seminars, 1978

Box 12

Executives' clinics, 1963-1981

Box 13

Editorial clinics, 1975-1985

First Amendment treatise, 1978

Box 14

Smaller newspapers workshops, 1977-1985

Box 15

Symposia on journalism education, 1980-1985

Management workshops, 1973-1976

Key executives conferences, 1981-1985

Box 16-30

Miscellaneous conferences, meetings, and clinics, 1968-1985

On various topics including cost and revenue, the newspaper of the future, estate planning, supervising personnel, the communications revolution, layout and design, business reporting, newsroom management, circulation, copy editing and headline writing, and researching news and feature stories.

Box 31-34

Office/Project/Subject Files

Journalism project, 1966

Executive director correspondence, 1968 1969

Fund raising, 1970s

Fellowships, 1960s

Box 35

SNPA Foundation, 1968 1976

Box 36-38

Newsprint mills, 1970s

Newspaper history

Box 39-43a

SNPA history, 1903 1978

Including file copies of documents important in the development of the organization. 43a is a package of 12 panoramic photographs of participants at SNPA conventions, 1916 1926.

Box 44-45

Audio Visual Materials

Including audio tapes recorded at various meetings, 1970s-1990s, and a few slides relating to workshop presentations.

Box 46

Publications

Advertising Bulletin, 1934-1970

Box 47

Advertising Bulletin, 1971-1985

Business Bulletin, 1936-1953

Box 48

Business Bulletin, 1954-1971

Box 49

Business Bulletin, 1972-1975

Circulation Bulletin, 1945-1975

Code Series Bulletin, 1934-1935

Editorial Affairs Bulletin, 1934-1940

Box 50

Editorial Affairs Bulletin, 1941-1954

Box 51

Editorial Affairs Bulletin, 1954

Editorial General/Reprint Bulletin, 1954-1964

Box 52

Editorial General/Reprint Bulletin, 1965-1974

Editors' Exchange Bulletin, 1972-1974

Box 53

Labor Bulletin, 1935-1950

Box 54

Labor Bulletin, 1951-1960

Box 55

Labor Bulletin, 1961-1970

Box 56

Labor Bulletin, 1971-1975

Legislative Bulletin, 1936-1948

Mechanical Bulletin, 1939-1967

Box 57

News Bulletin, 1955-1963

Box 58

News Bulletin, 1966-1974

Newsprint Bulletin, 1934-1943

Box 59

Newsprint Bulletin, 1944-1960

Box 60

Newsprint Bulletin, 1961-1974

Newsprint Waste Bulletin, 1952-1956

Personnel Bulletin, 1956-1976

Postal Bulletin, 1948-1971

Box 61

Postal Bulletin, 1972-1974

Public Relations Bulletin, 1942-1974

Sales Bulletin, 1960-1979

Box 62

Small Papers (Non Metropolitan) Bulletin, 1937-1943

South Bulletin, 1938-1954

Special Bulletin, 1928-1954

Special Labor Bulletin, 1972-1984

Special Labor/Mechanical Bulletin, 1929-1952

Traffic Bulletin, 1934-1947

Wage Hour Bulletin, 1938-1942

Box 63-66

SNPA Bulletin, 1920 1985