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Fonds consists of records created and accumulated by the Trent University Audio-Visual Department.

Record group consists of correspondence relating to the budget, staffing, and other matters, along with financial statements.

Fonds consists of TUARP minutes of meetings, lists of members, audit reports on pension fund and correspondence with various University administrators, 1999-2003.

Inuit Tapirisat Founding Plaque (undertaken by TUARP in 2016); information pertaining to Tapirisat at Trent University. Received from Professor Dale Standen in 2016.

Fonds consists of the administrative records of Trent University's Associate Dean of Arts and Science, 1966-1971. Mixed with this fonds are records generated by Blackburn in his capacity as psychology professor and university administrator.

The records in Box 1 cover the years 1985-1997 and were forwarded to the Archives by the Dean’s office in 1998. The records in Box 2 were received in approximately 2012 via the Audio-Visual department.

Contents include a description of the papers held at Trent University Archives that deal with the life and times of Richard Birdsall Rogers, superintending engineer of the world-renowned Peterborough Lift Lock. The 100th anniversary of the Lift Lock was celebrated on July 9th of this year.

Contents include Friends of the Bata Library's support of the Library and, particularly, the Archives. Members featured include researcher and writer Quentin Brown, Dr. Fern Rahmel, and Professor Gordon Roper.

Contents include references to Christmas in the writings of Margaret Laurence, Robertson Davies, and E.J. Pratt.

Contents include Thomas H.B. Symons' role in bringing about new directions and vigor to Canadian Studies in Canada and abroad during his term as Chairman of the Commission on Canadian Studies (1972-1984). Highlighted are several archival collections that were acquired for Trent University Archives through the efforts of Professor Symons during his term as University President.

Our Rice Lake holdings are featured in this issue of Archives News. Many include references to Indigenous Peoples of that area during the 19th century and early 20th. Our Trent Treasures column features a publication dated 1632 located in Special Collections: Les Voyages de la Novvelle France Occidentale, Dicte Canada, Faits par Le Sr. de Champlain (Paris: Chez Claude Collet, au Palais, en la Gallerie des Prisonniers, à l’Estoille d’Or, M DC XXX II).

The diaries of Peterborough’s Walter Roger are the focus of this issue of Archives News. Roger kept the diaries in the 1850s when he was in his teens. He went on to become a Presbyterian minister. Our Trent Treasures column features Jack Butler Yeats and his Life in the West of Ireland, published in 1915. A fine copy of this edition is located in Special Collections.

This issue of Archives News focuses on the local farming experience during the period of colonization; the holdings of Trent University Archives include several diaries and letters which reference the experiences of the early farming families. Featured in the Trent Treasures column is our 1846 copy of Gray's Elegy by Thomas Gray and illuminated by Owen Jones.

Issue #62 of Archives News focuses on the building of the late 19th-century home of W.T.C. Boyd of Bobcaygeon, Ontario. The house was designed by well-known Peterborough architect John E. Belcher.

This issue is our first since January. The intervening months were occupied with our temporary move to 225 Charlotte Street in downtown Peterborough while Thomas J. Bata Library undergoes renovations. In celebrating Canada 150, we have highlighted the 1867 diary of Richard Everett Birdsall from the Birdsall family fonds located in our holdings. The diary reveals glimpses of a life on a local farm at the period of Confederation. Catharine Parr Traill and her books about plant life in Canada, also written during the mid-19th century, are the focus of the Trent Treasures column.

This issue of Archives News focuses on holdings located in the Archives and in Special Collections which pertain to Canada's North. Poetry created during the years following Canada's Confederation is the focus of the Trent Treasures column.

Contents include Ron Thom's award-winning architectural designs for Trent University. As Master Planning Architect, Thom was also responsible for choosing designer furniture for his new buildings. Some of the chairs which adorned the campus are featured in this newsletter.

Champlain College's 50th anniversary is taking place this year; in this issue of Archives News, we focus on the many photographs, posters, and works of art in our holdings which pertain to the College. Our Trent Treasures column features Nellie McClung and her role in the women's suffrage movement in Canada.