The present collection has been arranged in two series, a series of records originating with the Dett Club and a series of records documenting interactions with the parent organization, NANM. The papers in both series include constitutions and bylaws, minutes and agendas from meetings, correspondence, programs from concerts, newsletters, and photographs. The NANM series includes materials relating to the national conventions and also to the NANM Central Region conferences.

Also of note in the Dett Club series is a sub-series of biographies of composers and performers used in the programs of various concerts. A few music scores received and shelved with the collection are cataloged in the CBMR Database, searchable from the CBMR website’s Library and Archives page: http://www.colum.edu/CBMR/Library_and_Archives/.