International City/County Management Association (ICMA) records
Overview
The International City/County Management Association (ICMA) was founded in 1914 as the International City Managers Association. ICMA is the professional and educational organization for chief appointed managers, administrators, and assistants in cities, towns, counties, and regional entities worldwide. This collection contains their administrative records dating back to the organization's founding, but is comprised predominately of materials from the 1970s-1990s. The collection also includes photographs, audio recordings, videos, microfilm, and 16mm films.
Dates
- Creation: 1900 - 2011
Creator
- International City/County Management Association (Organization)
Language of Materials
English, German, Spanish, Japanese
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
These materials are stored in the KU Annex off-site storage area.
All researchers interested in reviewing this material must consult Spencer Research Library Public Services staff (785-864-4334 or ksrlref@ku.edu, 9-5 M-F CST) no less than three days in advance of a planned visit. Be advised that drop-in requests for this material cannot be accommodated.
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
History of the International City/County Management Association
Founded in 1914 as the International City Management Association (ICMA), the International City/County Management Association has a long history with Kansas, though its offices left Lawrence for Chicago in 1929, and subsequently moved from there to Washington D.C. in August, 1967.
The Association published its first professional Code of Ethics for City Managers at the 1924 conference in Montreal, Canada. Orin F. Nolting (1903-1997), a long-time Executive Director of the organization (1956-1967), and Director Emeritus, lived in Prairie Village, Kansas, a Kansas City suburb, and continued to work as a consultant on urban management matters after his retirement.
In 1991 ICMA changed its name to include county government as well as city government, retaining the acronym ICMA.
Extent
83.75 Linear Feet (87 boxes + 3 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders, 33 film reels)
Scope and Contents
The International City/County Management Association records contain membership records, staff files, annual conference photographs and audio-visual materials, annual awards nomination and judging files, articles and electoral reports on implementation of council-manager charters, and research into foreign forms of local government.
Most of the collection has been divided into 4 series: People, Places, Activities and Research, and Audio/Visual Materials. Later additions to the collection have not followed that same structure and are listed separately; oversize materials have also been physically separated from the rest of the materials and are described separately. Audio/Visual materials located at RH MS 950 and RH MS R206 are not individually identified but are in good physical condition.
Physical Location
RH MS 950
Physical Location
RH MS R206
Physical Location
RH MS 1216
Physical Location
RH MS S36
Physical Location
Annex (Contact Spencer Library Public Services)
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gifts, International City/County Management Association, 1990-2010, 2014.
Separated Materials
Published materials, e.g. books and serials, were removed from the manuscript collection and cataloged individually in 2011. These materials can be found by searching the KU Libraries online catalog. Performing a keyword search in the catalog on the phrase "International City/County Management Association records collection" will retrieve all materials formerly housed in the ICMA manuscript collection.
Processing Information
In 2011-2012, published materials were removed from the collection and cataloged individually. The remainder of the collection was reboxed and refoldered. The finding aid was updated to reflect the changes in the collection.
Subject
- International City/County Management Association (Organization)
- Title
- Guide to the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) Collection
- Subtitle
- International City/County Management Association (ICMA) records
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by amc, 2007; revised by dd, 2008; revised by skt, 2010; revised by lmb and sda, 2012, 2013; revised by mwh, 2018.
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in English.
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5494880577
- Preferred citation
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International City/County Management Association (ICMA) records, Kansas Collection, RH MS 950, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository