materials collected by Wellman over a thirty year period in which he was first a party organizer in the Detroit auto plants, and later an active participant in many New Left political organizations and movements. Publications and documents of the Communist Party, USA, especially from the 1950's, the complete transcript of Wellman's 1953-54 Smith Act trial, and extensive materials documenting a wide range of Detroit groups and events are included.

The Dignity Archive consists of five boxes containing about 100 file folders of material relating to the national and regional chapters of Dignity, a gay/lesbian organization whose membership is primarily Roman Catholic. These materials, including conference papers, newsletters, leaflets and miscellaneous publications from the late 1960's to the mid-1980's, were collected and donated by Steven L. Berg.

II.

Factors influencing collection policy

A. Anticipated Future Trends

Collecting must be sensitive to issues that, however unforeseen today, will
influence American society's future and require the need for information to make reasoned assessments and choices.

Since the overwhelming number of users of the American Radicalism Collection are MSU undergraduates, future collecting efforts will focus primarily on building a strong and useful undergraduate collection.

B. Relationship with other resources

1. On campus branch or format collections, if any

In many cases much additional material exists in the Main Circulating Collection that supports subjects within the American Radicalism Collection. No effort will be made to duplicate or transfer these holdings to Special Collections, except in individual cases where the scarcity or the condition of a piece has made this advisable.

2. Regional or network resources, if any

The Joseph A Labadie Collection of radical and social protest literature at