Administrative Information
Conditions Governing Access
Series IV and VI are restricted until 2031. All other series open for research without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by the Professional Staff Congress was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Tamiment Library may hold copyright to some of the photographs in the collection taken by freelance photographers Sam Reiss, Dan Miller, and Al Ben-Ness. Copyright holder(s) for photographs by staff photographer(s) and other materials unknown.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York Records; WAG 009; Box number; Folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York Records; WAG 009; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures
Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Born-digital materials have not been transferred and may not be available to researchers. Researchers may request access copies. To request that material be transferred, or if you are unsure if material has been transferred, please contact special.collections@nyu.edu with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records of the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY were donated to the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives by the PSC in 1981. The accession numbers associated with this donation are 1981.006 and 1981.009. Since then, regular additions have been made to the Tamiment Library's holdings. A large donation of material was made in 2006, when the union moved from its long-time headquarters at 25 West 43rd Street in New York City to a new location at 61 Broadway. In August 2016 three boxes of International Committee records were sent by Renate Bridenthal. The accession number associated with this gift is 2016.049. In October 2016 the Professional Staff Congress donated additional administative files on 10 reels of microfilm. The accession number associated with this gift is 2016.062.In August 2018 the Professional Staff Congress donated four boxes of records from the Women's Committee. The accession number associated with this gift is 2018.124.
https://psc-cuny.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2007 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2015, this website was migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. In 2020, https://archive.psc-cuny.org/ was added to the web archives. The accession number associated with this website is 2020.011. In July 2020, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FWf8QGNsx5Z4bZ4uF3WqNrasksjL0k9hIzGosBbNoYs/edit was added to the web archives. The accession number associated with this website is 2021.014. In December 2021, https://cunyrisingalliance.org/ was added to the web archives. The accession number associated with this website is 2022.040.
Processing Information
Photographs were separated from this collection during initial processing and from new accessions and were established as a separate collection, the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York Photographs (PHOTOS 095).
In 2013, the photograph collection was reincorporated into the Professional Staff Congress/City University of New York Records and Photographs.
In October 2016, 3 boxes of International Committee files were added to Series III: Records of the Professional Staff Congress, Subseries III:C: General Files. Meeting minutes, which were spread out across 3 boxes, were grouped together, but files were not arranged further. In November 2013 an additional box of microfilm reels containing administrative files of the Council of Senior Citizens, Pension Committee, and Belle Zeller Scholarship Trust Fund were also added to Subseries III:C: General Files and described on the box level.
In September 2018, three boxes of PSC Women's Committee material were added to Subseries III:C: General Files and described on the box level. One box with A/V material was added to Series VII.
IN 2020-2022, the archived websites were added to the finding aid as Series VIII.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.