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The Audio Visual series, 1 linear ft, contains audio tapes of political science lectures given by Professor Singer and others. Also included are VHS tapes and digital materials of interviews and special programs.

Sound Recordings (1969-1993, .25 linear feet) is comprised primarily of 45 rpm singles from various bands that worked with A-Square Records. Additionally, it contains a digital compilation of songs released on the A-Square label in the late 1960s.

The Legal Division series is the largest of the twelve series in the collection and contains material on a wide range of issues. The mission of the Governor's Legal Division was primarily to provide sound legal advice and act as a liaison with the Attorney General. The files contain research materials, printed email correspondence, and legal documents. The series is comprised of eleven subseries organized by staff member and a General Office Records subseries organized by topic. The staff member subseries are: Kelly Keenan: Legal Counsel, 2003-2008; Steven C. Liedel: Deputy Legal Counsel (2003-2008) and Legal Counsel (2008-2010); Don Allen: Attorney General's Office and Deputy Legal Counsel; Suzanne Sonneborn: Deputy Legal Counsel; Victoria Manning: Paralegal; Danielle M. Brown: Staff; Corina Peña Andorfer: Deputy Legal Counsel; Michelle Rick: Deputy Legal Counsel; Brandon Hofmeister: Deputy Legal Counsel; Teresa Bingman: Deputy Legal Counsel; and John Wernet: Deputy Legal Counsel.

Kelly Keenan served as the governor's legal counsel from 2003 to 2008. The Kelly Keenan: Legal Counsel, 2003-2008 subseries documents the full range of the Legal Division's activity. Keenan's files also document the Granholm administration's preparation of an amicus curiae brief in support of the University of Michigan in the Graetz and Grutter lawsuits and contain a significant collection of materials related to the Kwame Kilpatrick removal hearing. Steven C. Liedel, served as a Deputy Legal Counsel from 2003 to 2008 and was named Legal Counsel in 2008 upon the retirement of Kelly Keenan. His records primarily document transition and legislative issues. There is also some material related to the Kwame Kilpatrick removal hearing in the Liedel subseries. Additionally, the Liedel subseries contains files for each of Governor Granholm's executive orders, directives, and proclamations. Combined, the Keenan and Liedel subseries document the full range of the department's activity, although more detailed information on a particular topic can often be found in the files of a staffer who specialized in that area.

The other nine staffers worked in more circumscribed areas including renewable energy, economic development, corrections, tribal issues, civil rights, and education. Of particular note are Deputy Legal Counsel Michelle Rick's files documenting the administration's response to Proposal 2 and John Wernet's extensive files on Tribal Issues. The final subseries, General Office Records, documents the same topics as the paper files, but is significantly more robust in documenting legislative activity.

The Personal Files series (0.75 linear feet) includes records related to. Turcotte's personal life and career. Material includes awards and honors received by Turcotte, records relating to various societies and organizations he was a member of, and his professional activity, including his Curriculum Vitae, which includes both a paper and a digital copy. The series also includes a transcript of an interview with the Center for the History of Medicine, which contains extensive biographical information. A digital copy of the transcript is also included.

The Visual Materials make up a majority of the collection, consisting of photographs, slides, and negatives of various sizes. Most of the material is organized chronologically, or alphabetically by label, if the information was provided. Some materials are also organized categorically, such as black and white photos, color photos, and personal photos, in which Dunne and his colleagues are the subjects. The series also includes digital materials that contain a presentation highlighting Jim Dunne's work, and digital copies of photographs compiled for his book.

(Titled "Rehearsals with WDR"; transcription provided by Dr. Patrick Reynolds, son of Jimmie Howard Reynolds. Minor changes to punctuation and grammar were made to aid in clarity. Full transcription note included in the digital file.)

The Sound Recordings subgroup of the Sinclair collection provides a unique perspective on Sinclair's interests and activities, and thus complements and expands the manuscript and photographic holdings. Including recordings of meetings, interviews, demonstrations, and musical performances, the collection strongly represents the sounds and voices of the counterculture movement.

While recording some of the same activity and covering the same basic time frames, the Sound Reels and Sound Cassettes series augment, rather than duplicate, one another. Both the reels and cassettes series are arranged in eight units. In order to facilitate access the reels are numbered sequentially within the series as a whole. Both series include recordings of meetings and interviews; the reels have the longest run of meetings (16 tapes spanning the years 1968 to 1972, with most tapes covering 1972), while the cassettes have a much larger collection of interviews.

A special strength of the Sound Cassettes is the recordings of trials and trial-related events. Included are the John Sinclair marijuana trial, "Free John" rally and prison release, and the CIA conspiracy case against Pun Plamondon. The cassettes also showcase Sinclair's involvement with community radio. The radio shows unit consists of samples taken from Sinclair's radio shows on college or public radio stations in both Michigan and New Orleans. The cassettes also include tapes of some of Sinclair's lectures on the history of Blues, Jazz and Rock and Roll music from his classes at Wayne State University.

The greatest strength of the Sound Reels is the large number of musical performances. The recordings of various "free park concerts," and the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festivals, and live recordings and studio outtakes of the MC 5, the UP, and other area musical acts, provide a valuable glimpse of the musical and cultural environment of Detroit and Ann Arbor from the late 1960's to the mid-1980's.

The Sound Discs are primarily commercial and limited-run pressings of musical groups which John Sinclair managed, or artists who recorded for Strata Records, the company Sinclair organized in 1977. Most notable are recordings of the MC 5 and the UP. Also included is a set of discs recording the 1972 Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival, both preliminary and final pressings. The discs are arranged by size in two chronological units.

(CD use copies have been made of Unit 1, nos. 2-11; Unit 3, nos. 1-4, 6, 9-18; Unit 4, nos. 3-9. These CDs are in box 81.)

The Politics and Campaigns series is organized into four subseries: Campaigns and Elections, State and National Democratic Party Materials, Press, and Redistricting.

Materials are organized chronologically and documents John Dingell, Jr.'s 29 national political campaigns for the U.S. House of Representatives and his work related to the state and national Democratic Party. Campaign files include correspondence, constituent research, candidate research, certificates of election, news clippings, press releases, financial records, questionnaires, speeches, photographs, and Dingell's YouTube channel videos.

Materials documenting Dingell's involvement with the Democratic National Committee and Michigan Democratic Party include meeting materials, party platforms, committee assignments, party organizational documents, and news article. Redistricting materials include court proceedings, hearing materials, legal and strategic plans, background research, delegation meetings, news clippings, and correspondence.

The Gubernatorial Papers subgroup comprises 411 linear feet and is divided into thirteen series. Ten of these series represent subdivisions of the governor's office, one represents the Departments of the State Government, one contains electronic media, and one consists of memorabilia and realia.

Although the reporting relationship of the speechwriters shifted between the Communications office and the External (Public) Affairs office, the papers of John Nevin and Gleaves Whitney have been gathered together here in the Communications Division series for ease of reference, and for continuity's sake. Throughout their employment, they served as speechwriters and so their papers have a unity based on function in support of that work. The papers of Rusty Hills, however, will be found in both the Communications and the Public Affairs Division Series, because he served as the Director of Communications for Engler's first term, and then as Director of the newly repurposed Director of Public Affairs for the second term.

The Communications Division series has been arranged into the following subseries: Press releases; News clips; John Nevin files; Gleaves Whitney files; John Truscott files; Speeches, Videotapes; and Sound Recordings.

The Digital Materials is comprised of two subseries: Issues and Personal Materials. The Issues subseries contains drafts of correspondence, email, articles, essays, eNewsletters (including copies of "Some Missing Lines"), flyers and other material related to the various issues with which Kavanaugh was involved: gay rights, religion, public transit, elections, voter suppression, and urban development among others. As such, these materials will have varying degrees of overlap with other series in the collection. The Personal Materials subseries includes digital photographs collected by Kavanaugh or taken of him and associates as well as some video footage of his home and neighborhood.

The Electronic materials series contains) with correspondence on various subjects reflected in previous series, photographs and amateur photo images of and possibly by John Kavanaugh, as well as commercially made images; business records of Coat & Simms Enterprises, Inc. Assisted Living Center; 2007 issues of Some missing lines (some duplicate and additional to the hard copies included in the Issues series), and e-mail correspondence.