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McClelland, David C. (David Clarence) Papers of David McClelland, 1900-1998 : an inventory

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Descriptive Summary

Repository: Harvard University Archives
Call No.: HUGFP 145
Creator: McClelland, David C. (David Clarence)
Title: Papers of David McClelland, 1900-1998
Quantity: 113 boxes (ca. 37 cubic feet)
Abstract: David C. McClelland was a Harvard psychologist, noted especially for his work on achievement motivation. These papers chifely document his professional life.
Note: This document last updated 2007 April 19.

Acquisition Information :

Accessions 11163: 1987 July 23, David McClelland 13589: 1997 June 18, David McClelland 13881: 1998 November 6, Marian McClelland 13889: 1998 December 10, Beverly Douhan 13918: 1999 March 4, Marian McClelland 14018: 1999 August 25, David G. Winter

Processing Information :

Processed under the direction of Kate Bowers by Jill Snyder and Chris M. Lubicz-Nawrocki, September 2000 through March 2001 .
Staff at the Harvard University Archives re-housed all papers in acid-free folders and document boxes, organized the material, maintaining the original organization where possible, and produced this finding aid.
Staff in the Harvard University Archives tried to identify and preserve the organization of the papers as far as possible. While correspondence and course material arrived at the Harvard University Archives in good order, subject and project files and reprints were in no discernable order. Additionally, McClelland would re-use folders, so that sometimes the contents and the folder title are at odds. Staff o the University Archives imposed a rough subject organization where no intrinsic organization could be ascertained.

Conditions on Use and Access :

General Restriction Consult with the reference staff of the Harvard University Archives for details on obtaining permission to see, to photocopy, or to publish from the Papers of David McClelland. Specific Restrictions: Evaluations Those portions of the collection in which individuals are evaluated are closed. Those portions of the collection that must be reviewed before patrons may have access includes the entirety of the series relating to undergrateuate or graduate advising and those portions of the correspondence for which the folder title is an individuals' name. University Records Records of the Department of Psychology and Social Relations; for a period of 50 years, access to these files requires the permission of the Departments of Psychology and Sociology. Records of University committees of which Professor McClelland was a member; for a period of 50 years, access to these files require the permission of the University department to which the committee reported. Records of faculty search committees of which Professor McClelland was a member; restricted for a period of 80 years. Records of University projects headed by Professor McClelland; for a period of 50 years, access to these files require the permission of the University department that sponsored the project. Consulting Additional restrictions may apply to papers having to do with McClelland's consulting work.

Allied Material

See works by and about David McClelland cataloged in Harvard's on-line library information system.

Series and Sub-series in the Collection

Biography

David C. McClelland was a Harvard psychologist, noted especially for his work on achievement motivation.

Chronology of the life of David McClelland

Scope and Content of the Papers of David McClelland

These papers document the professional life of David McClelland. While there are portions of these papers where McClelland's professional life and personal interests intersect, as in the papers relating to religion, McClelland the scholar is always more heavily documented than McClelland the private man.
Chronologically, the papers cover all of McClelland's life, including a small amount of material from his childhood. Professional papers date from his college and graduate school years. Like his career, this collection is dominated by the years at Harvard.
McClelland's activities in various arenas, teaching, consulting, pure research, are intermingled. A researcher may expect to find consulting materials from a McBer project among the reading materials for a course, while one may also find test results from a cohort of students in a folder on a reasearch topic.

Series Descriptions and Box and Folder Lists


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