Finding Aid to the Records of Marc Brodsky and Fred Dylla, 1995-2008Niels Bohr Library & Archives 1.0 American Institute of Physics Niels Bohr Library & Archives
One Physics Ellipse College Park, MD 20740 USA nbl@aip.org
2011 Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Melanie J. Brown in 2011. Any revisions made to this finding aid occurred as part of the editing and encoding process. Finding aid is written in English. Description of the CollectionAmerican Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Records of Marc Brodsky and Fred Dylla 1995-2008 American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. 4 linear feet4 records boxes AR2009895 English This collection contains meeting material collected by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Office of the Director during the tenure of Marc Brodsky and Fred Dylla. Selected Search Terms

These papers have been indexed in the International Catalog of Sources for History of Physics and Allied Sciences (ICOS) using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.

Brodsky, M. H. (Marc Herbert), 1938- Dylla, H. F. American Institute of Physics. American Institute of Physics. Office of the Director. Physics. Publishing. Physics. Societies, etc. Administrative records Historical Note

Marc H. Brodsky served as the Executive Director and CEO of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) from 1993 to 2007. During his tenure, Brodsky oversaw dramatic changes in AIP publishing and publishing services, as nearly all editorial, production, distribution and business processes were changed to deal with electronic publishing. All the journals and magazines AIP publishes for itself and others went onto the World Wide Web, increasing access to the physics literature to more people than ever before in history. Brodsky also worked to increase AIP Member Society participation in programs of common interest, including free Member Society student memberships for Society of Physics Students undergraduates, funding of the Physics Olympiad U.S. Team, and coordination of many media and government relations activities. He also actively defended AIP's freedom of the press rights on many fronts, including attempted government restrictions on the processing of manuscripts from certain countries and suits from some who tried to restrict knowledge from comparisons of journal prices.

H. Frederick Dylla took over the position of Executive Director and CEO of AIP in 2007. Prior to his role as Executive Director, Dylla served on the AIP Governing Board in the early 1990s and from 2004 to 2007. He was also a member of AIP's Corporate Associates Advisory Committee for many years and hosted the Corporate Associates' Industrial Physics Forum at Jefferson Lab in 2002. He also served as Chair of the Physics Today Advisory Committee and as a member of the Committee on Public Policy. Dylla is a Past President of the AVS: Science & Technology of Materials, Interfaces, and Processing, one of AIP's ten Member Societies, where he was elected a Fellow in 1998 and is currently a distinguished lecturer for the society. He has helped to design imaginative sessions at AVS meetings on the 100th Anniversary of Electronics and Benjamin Franklin's contributions to vacuum sciences and related fields.

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Scope and Contents of Collection

This collection contains meeting material collected by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Office of the Director during the tenure of Marc Brodsky and Fred Dylla, and covers the period of transition between the two officers. The collection mostly documents the meetings of the Executive Committee and Governing Board of AIP, as well as some other committees and meetings.

 Organization and Arrangement of Collection

This collection is organized into two series:

Series I: Executive Committee and Governing Board meetings Series II: General committees and meetings

Each series is arranged chronologically.

 Access to Collection

Permission of an officer of depositing organization required for access to records less than 25 years old. http://www.aip.org/history/nbl/access.html.

 Provenance and Acquisition Information

Donated by the Office of the Director, 2008 and 2010.

 Processing Information

Melanie J. Brown 2011.

Where available, the owner of each meeting book (Brodsky or Dylla) is noted in the folder titles in the collection.

 Preferred Citation of Collection

Box [number], Folder [number], Records of Marc Brodsky and Fred Dylla, . American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

 Container List Series I: Executive Committee and Governing Board meetings 11 Executive Committee meeting, January 2004 12 Executive Committee meeting, June 2004 13 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting, April 2004 14 Executive Committee meeting, September 2004 15 Executive Committee meeting, October 2004 16 Executive Committee meeting, January 2005 17 Governing Board meeting, April 2005 18 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), June 2005 19 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), September 2005 110 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting (Brodsky), November 2005 111 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), February 2006 112 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting (Brodsky), May 2006 113 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), June 2006 21 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), September 2006 22 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting (Brodsky), November 2006 23 Governing Board meeting (Dylla), November 2006 24 Executive Committee meeting (Brodsky), February 2007 25 Executive Committee meeting (Dylla), February 2007 26 Governing Board meeting (Brodsky), March 2007 27 Governing Board meeting (Dylla), March 2007 28 Executive Committee meeting, June 2007 29 Executive Committee meeting, September 2007 210 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting, November 2007 211 Executive Committee and Governing Board meeting, May 2008 Series II: General committees and meetings Subseries A: Physics Resources Center (PRC) 31 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Policy Committee meeting (Brodsky), March 2006 32 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky) (1 of 2), March 2006 33 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky) (2 of 2), March 2006 34 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Policy Committee meeting, March 2007 35 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky) (1 of 2), March 2007 36 Physics Resources Center (PRC) Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky) (2 of 2), March 2007 37 Physics Resources Center (PRC) recruitment meeting, June 2008 Subseries B: American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees 38 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees meeting (Brodsky), January 2004 39 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees meeting (Brodsky), January 2005 310 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees meeting (Brodsky), February 2006 311 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees meeting (Dylla), February 2007 312 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Committees meeting (Brodsky), February 2007 Subseries C: Other 41 World Conference on Research and Communications in Physics meeting (Brodsky), 1995 42 Planning meeting on international collaboration (Brodsky), October 1997 43 Physics Today Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky), January 2005 44 Corporate Associates Advisory Committee meeting, January 2006 45 Physics Today Advisory Committee meeting (Brodsky), January 2006 46 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Subcommittee on Publishing Services meeting, April 2006 47 United State Liaison Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (USLC-IUPAP) meeting (Brodsky), June 2006 48 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Journal Editors' Panel, October 2006 49 Physics Today Advisory Committee meeting, January 2007 410 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Committee on Public Policy (Dylla), March 2007 411 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Audit committee, 2007 412 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Subcommittee on Publishing Services, April 2007 413 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Subcommittee of Classification and Information Retrieval, April 2007 414 Physics of Plasmas Review Committee meeting, November 2007 415 Publishing Policy Committee meeting, December 2007 416 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Subcommittee on Publishing Services, November 2007