The Faculty Documentation Program is comprised of the papers and archives generated by Stony Brook University's faculty over the course of their careers. A list of the types of material the department seeks to acquire follows below. Original items are preferable, but copies (photocopies, prints, digital copies on CD-Rom, emails and other media) are acceptable.

For faculty members who have retained their personal papers and archives, the following materials could be donated to the University Archives:

• Biographical information: biographies, resumes, curriculum vitae, autobiographies, sketches, chronologies, and bibliographies of works
• Diaries, notebooks, journals and appointment books
• Correspondence: personal, professional, official university
• Teaching materials: lecture notes, course syllabi, samples assignments, sample tests, lab manuals, overheads, slides, course outlines, and reading lists
• Copies of publications: one set of published works
• Drafts of work: articles, speeches, and books
• Research files: outlines, reviews, critiques, notes, analyses, reports, summary analyses, summary reports, research or field notes. Note: data that contains private information should not be donated. Data that has limited restrictions on use may be transferred.
• Photographs: electronic and print
• Audio/visual: video and audio recordings of work, speeches, etc.
• Departmentl/committee records: agenda, minutes, reports, correspondence and related material
• Memorabilia and artifacts
• Electronic records: items created in electronic environments (2 copies of each for back-up purposes and hard copy if available).

Faculty may also submit a packet of information to the University Archives. Contents may include:

• Dated photographs
• Copy of a curriculum vitae
• Professional resume, if different from CV
• Bibliography of published works, if not included in the CV
• 5-20 page biographical sketch in narrative form