Public Service Subcommittee Report & List of Members , 1985

This series contains information pertaining to the George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography (GEH/IMP) and its photo archive. It includes three subseries: The first subseries consists of administrative records which include the GEH/IMP charter and by-laws; descriptions of the GEH/IMP collections and the microfiche object index; lists and photographs of the Board of Trustees; by-laws (undated) and articles on the Eastman House Council; a list of staff terminations; and Eastman Kodak’s responses to the newspapers regarding the GEH/IMP archive and proposed budget for 1986. The second subseries, Reports and Proposals, includes the Ketchum report on the fundraising potential of the International Museum of Photography; the Wallis report; the trustee resolution to move the photo archive to the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution; the PABIR proposal to the trustees; the consortium proposal (GEH/IMP, PABIR, SUNY Brockport, R.I.T., University of Rochester) to New York State; the GEH/IMP appropriation proposal for construction of a new facility; and the Planning Committee Final Report which was accepted by PABIR with reservations.The third subseries pertains to committees and includes information about the Visiting Committee (a contributor to the Wallis Report); the College Representatives to the Planning Subcommittee that evolved into the Educational Consortium; the Public Service Subcommittee; the Collections Management Subcommittee; the Planning Committee; the Staff Committee on Exhibitions and Public Programming; and the Academic Coordinating Committee. These files include lists of members and some agendas and minutes. The Academic Coordinating Committee file includes material related to the search for the Director of University Education Services position in 1987 and the subsequent hiring of William Johnson. This position was recommended by the Consortium proposal to provide liaison and coordinate GEH/IMP services to the higher education community and was initially funded by the three colleges.