Collection consists of assembled files on a variety of topics, places, and people related to Trent University history. Files include news clippings, correspondence, brochures, reports, memos, policies, speeches, programs, and other records. This collection is a great place to begin research on Trent University.

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 9 (September 1988) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Rahmel, Fern A. John Sutherland, The Northern Review, and the Struggle for Modern Canadian Poetry
• Sadler, Doug. Doug Sadler and How He Came to Write Reading Nature’s Clues. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Stubbs, John. The Computerization of the Oxford English Dictionary. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern A.
• Wadland, John. A Tribute to Margaret Laurence
• LePan, Don. On Being a Small Publisher in Canada
• Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1987 to 30 April 1988
• Treadwell, Michael. Report of the Acquisitions Committee
• Library Acquisitions 1987/88
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 8 (September 1987) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Cole, Jean Murray. Editor’s Note
• Gordon Roper Feted by Friends. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Rahmel, Fern A. Peterborough: An Illustrated History
• Genoe, Murray. An Automated Library System for Trent. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Wilson, Alan. Professor Wilson and the Maritime Oral Tradition. Recorded by - Barrett, Karen
• McWilliams, Velma. William Arthur Breyfogle – A Bibliography
• Executive Re-elected
• Dodge, Bernadine. Annual Financial Statement – to April 30, 1987
• Constitution Amended
• Friends of the Bata Library 1986-1987 – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 7 (September 1986) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Cole, Jean. Editor’s Note
• Canadiana Collection to Bata Library – on the life and death of Robert L. Hunter, donor of the Canadiana Collection
• Smith, Denis. Twentieth Anniversary of Journal
• Drew, Wayland. Wayland Drew on “Bibliotropes”
• Parker, George. Publishing and Cultural Sovereignty
• Rueter, William. Canada’s Private Presses
• New Chairman Elected
• Brown, Quentin. A Word from our Retiring Chairman
• McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1985-1986
• New Guidelines for the Acquisitions Committee
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Annual Financial Statement – May 31, 1986
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 6 (September 1985) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Foreword
• Matthews, Ross M. Oft in the Stilly Night
• Chambers, Robert D. Literary Nationalism
• The Mossom Boyd Collection
• Adams. Friends Visit the Map Room
• Evans, Emrys. The Birdsall Bookbinding Tools
• Audley, Paul. Canadian Publishing
• Annual Financial Statement
• McAuley, Darienne. Report of the Acquisitions Committee, 1984-85
• Acquisitions – list of gifts and purchases
• Acknowledgements
• Membership – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 5 (June 1984) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Article on James Stevenson
• Brown, Quentin. Books from a Wayfarer’s Knapsack
• Cole, Jean. Professor Roper talks to the Friends of the Bata’s Collection of Canadiana
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. A Report by the Treasurer
• Annual Financial Statement
• McAuley, Darienne. Books and other printed material purchased by the Friends and presented to the Bata Library 1979-1983
• Details of Membership
• Acknowledgements

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 4 (1982) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. Hugh Anson-Cartwright, Third Honorary Friend of the Bata Library
• Derry, Ramsay. The Making of a Best Seller
• Laurence, Margaret. Books That Mattered to Me
• Wiseman, John A. The Light in the Forest: Popular Literature and Reading in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
• Wadland, John. Ernest Thompson Seton and the Origins of the Boy Scout Movement
• Financial Statement
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members
• Hagar, F.A. Acknowledgements

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 3 (May 1981) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hagar, F.A. Forward
• Second Annual Business Meeting including acquisitions
• The Bata Library and the Canadian Heritage – the election of Professor T.H.B. Symons as an honourary member in the Friends
• Friends of the Bata Library: Constitution
• Whalley, George. The Web of the North. Recorded by Chambers, Robert D.
• The Trials of Authors – interview of Jean Cole by Robert D. Chambers
• Sandwell, Barney. The Trials of Publishers
• Laurence, Margaret. Margaret Laurence & her Fellow Authors
• The Friends & their Friends in Peterborough
• Lewis, Joyce C. The Bata Library Wall Display Case
• Johnston, Gordon. A.J.M. Smith: First Honourary Member of the Friends of the - Bata Library
• Volunteers Solicited
• Details of Membership
• The Friends – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 25 (Fall 2004) which includes the following content:

• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Financial Report
• Bata Library Acquisitions 2003-2004
• Dodge, Bernadine. Archives News
• Faculty Publications
• Other News
• MacMillan, Margaret. Writing History; or Why Write and Read History? Recorded by Hooke Katharine
• Chambers, Robert. Trent, Books and Us. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Harrison, Julia. Making Travel Meaningful. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Bailey, Suzanne. After Elizabeth: Browning and the Texture of Time. Recorded by Daunt, Frances
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 24 (Fall 2003) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Cambridge to Calgary: In Pursuit of Austin Lane, 1998-2000
• Daunt, Frances. Background of the Friends of the Bata Library
• Financial Report
• Acquisitions to the Bata Library
• Djwa, Sandra. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Flemming, Rae. A Night of Nostalgia: Words and Images Evoking Memories of a Vanished Canada: The Royal Tour of 1939 and the World of the General Store. The Golden Age of Two Canadian Institutions. Recorded by Daunt, Frances
• MacLeod, Alistair. A No-Name Non-Talk. Recorded by Scott, Munroe
• Peterman, Michael. Isabella Valancy Crawford and the Rise of the Illustrated Papers: A Curious Kind of Literary Life. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 23 (Fall 2002) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Cole, Jean Murray. Acquisitions
• Jenish, D’Arcy. Indian Fall The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Flowers in the Snow. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Cole, Jean Murray. Getting to Know One’s Great-great Grandfather. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Douglas, James Bolivar. Telling our Own Stories. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Third Annual Dinner: May 9, 2002
• Financial Report 2001-2002
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 22 (Fall 2001) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Mission Statement
• Membership
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Chambers, Robert. Can There Be a Perfect Critic? Some Thoughts on Edmund Wilson. Recorded by Clark, Lorrie
• McKillop, Brian. The Spinster and the Prophet: Florence Deeks, H.G. Wells and the Mystery of the Purloined Past. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Scott, Munroe. The Carving of Canada: A Tale of Parliamentary Gothic. Recorded by Cole, Jean M
• Financial Report 1999-2001
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 20/21 (Fall 1999/Fall 2000) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Hooke, Katharine. Editor’s Note
• Millard, Janice. Donations to the Bata Library
• Peterman, Michael. James Michael Treadwell (1942-1999)
• Financial Report 1999-2001
• Cooper, Cynthia. Dressing up Canada: Last Victorian Fancy Dress Balls. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Bjornson, Pam. CIHM…Acronym for an Impressive Canadian Resource. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Sangster, Joan. Transforming Local History into Drama. Recorded by Clark, Lorrie
• Murray, Heather. Book Clubs in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Bocking, Richard. Bocking, Stephen. Streams of Life: The Fraser River, Ecology and Canada’s Living Environment. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Meneley, Anne. Qat Chewing in Yemen and the Web. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Armstrong, Duncan. Rice Lake Tallgrass Prarie Recreates Early Landscape. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1980) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• First Annual Business Meeting includes acquisitions
• Page, Robert. A Question of Energy
• The Friends Visit the Bibliotheca Vogriana including remarks by Prof. Gilbert Bagnani
• The Voice to go with the Room – interview of AJM Smith by Gordon Johnston and Michael Peterman
• Cole, Jean Murray. Archibald McDonald
• Ebbs, Harry and Adele Ebbs. The Ebbs Camping Archives
• Obituaries for Mrs. Dorothy R. Dyde, Mrs. W.R. Philp, Mrs. Robert E. (Muriel) Nott.
• The Friends – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 19 (Fall 1998) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Cole, Jean Murray. South Monaghan – The Garden of Eden
• Landon, Richard – Cooper & Beatty: Designers with Type. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Struthers, Jim. Who’s Afraid of Public Pensions? Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Daunt, Frances. From Ontario to Persia: An Unusual Expedition 1916-1919. Recorded by Hooke, Katharine
• Eadie, Tom. The Once and Future Library. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Carmichael, Don. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1997-April 1998)
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 18 (Fall 1997) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Barrett, Karen. Bibliomania: When the Passions of Bibliophiles are Carried to the Extreme
• Evans, Gwynneth. Lessons from the National Library: Inquiring into Canada. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Verduyn, Christl. Marian Engel: The Writer, the Woman. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Peterman, Michael. Working With Catherine Parr Trail: Her Life and Letters. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Benidickson, Jamie. Idleness, Water and a Canoe. Recorded by Peterman, Cara
• Carmichael, Don. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1996-April 1997)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell,Michael. Acquisitions 1996-97
• Peterman, Michael. Tom Eadie

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 17 (Fall 1996) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Rahmel, Fern. Robertson Davies: Wonder-Worker
• Harrison, Julia. A Museum Founded on Oil. Recorded by Chambers, Robert
• Neufeld, James. The National Ballet of Canada. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Paehlke, Robert. The Experience of Editing and Encyclopedia. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Smith, Denis. Communing with Dief. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1995-April 1996)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell, Michael. Acquisitions 1995-1996
• Wadland, John. Larry Turner (1952-1996)
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 16 (Fall 1995) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Hoyle, Gwyneth. Adventure – No Life Should be Without It
• Knight, Lorna. The National Library – Research Opportunities in Literary Manuscripts. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Conolly, Leonard. Censorship – It’s Alive and Well. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Wadland, John. Menage a Trois. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Black, John. Libraries: The Best of Times, the Worst of Times. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1994-April 1995)
• Report on Membership
• Treadwell, Michael. Acquisitions 1994-1995
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 15 (Fall 1994) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Brown, Quentin. I’m Monstrous Full Er Fleas Dis Mawnin’
• O’Brien, Brendan. Speedy Justice. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Peterman, Michael. The Life of the Pioneer Writer. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Scigliano, Marisa. Johann Gutenberg and the 42-Line Bible. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lennox, John. A Friendship in Letters. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Macrae, John. Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions 1993-1994
• Annual Financial Statement (May 1993-April 1994)
• Report on Membership
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 14 (Fall 1993) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Heiderman, Margaret Lowery. Good Reads Revisited
• Rodger, Andrew C. Photography and the Historian. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Tahiliani, Moti. A Library Embraces the Computer Age. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Johnston, Julie. Published and Approved Julie Johnston talks to the Friends. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern A.
• Anson-Cartwright, Hugh. The Booklover’s Bookseller. Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions, 1992-1993
• Report on Membership
• Annual Financial Statement for 1992-93
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 13 (September 1992) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Ash, Mary Eileen. Goldwin Smith, the Grange and the Library
• Williamson, Mary F. Canadian Art Materials and Special Collections: Rescuing Rare Books from the Stacks. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lacombe, Michèle. William Arthur Deacon: The Life, Times and Letters of a Literary Journalist. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dodge, Bernadine. Youth Camping: an Ontario Experience. Recorded by Cole, Alf
• Rahmel, Fern. Peterborough’s First Librarian. Recorded by Cole, Jean Murray
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1992-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1991-92
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 12 (September 1991) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• Wiseman, John A. Bata Library’s Special Collections Room
• Pollock, Zailig. The Editor as Story Teller. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Dahl, Ed. Twenty Maps I’d Like to Take Home with Me. Recorded by Brown, Quentin
• Barrett, Karen. How to Write a Local History
• Kokatailo, Philip. A.J.M. Smith and the Book of Canadian Poetry. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Annual Meeting
• Rahmel, Fern. Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1991-92
• Annual Financial Statement for 1990-1991
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 11 (September 1990) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. The Peterborough Information Infrastructure Updated
• Peterman, Michael. The New Letters of Susanna Moodie. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Halpenny, Frances. The Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Lockhart Fleming, Patricia. Upper Canadian Imprints 1801-1841. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Hodgins, Bruce. The Canoe as a Canadian Cultural Icon. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Annual Meeting
• Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1989-1990
• Rahmel, Fern. Acquisitions 1989-1990
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1989 to 30 April 1990
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 10 (September 1989) which includes the following content:

• Executive Committee
• Barrett, Karen. Editor’s Note
• McKee, Penny. The Peterborough Information Infrastructure. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Scott, Monroe. The Writer in the Community Monroe Scott and the Lindsay Public Library Experience. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Young, Scott. Scott Young and the Pleasures of Being a Writer in Canada. Recorded by Stevenson, Betty
• Vaisey, David. The Bodleian Library: Inheritance from the Past – Challenge for the Future. Recorded by Barrett, Karen
• Mallory, Enid. Coppermine: The Far North of George M. Douglas. Recorded by Rahmel, Fern
• Brown, Louise. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia 1646-1684
• Annual Meeting
• Report of the Acquisitions Committee 1988-1989
• Acquisitions 1988-1989
• Annual Financial Statement 1 May 1988 to 30 April 1989
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members

Item is the Friends of the Bata Library Bulletin, No. 2 (1979) which includes the following content:

• Steering Committee
• Chambers, Robert D. Editorial
• The Friends’ First Assembly
• Burke, Anne. Reflections on the A.J.M. Smith Collection
• Hagar, F.A. The Bradd Downey Fund at Trent University
• Jones, Elwood. Mill on the Trent: the Fowlds-Marryat Collection
• Johnson, Kenneth W. An Archival Genealogy
• Friends of the Bata Library – list of members