Fonds consists of correspondence, minutes, reports, financial records, and published materials created or acquired by the Office of the Dean of Arts in the course of the Faculty's administration. Also included are architectural plans of the Buchanan Building and other campus facilities. The records are arranged in the following series: Faculty of Arts Meetings, Heads & Directors Meetings, Committees, Budgets, Asian Centre, Museum of Anthropology, Space and Building Allocation, Statistics, Student Relations, Department and Programme Correspondence, Departmental Reviews, Faculty and Departmental Reports, UBC Non-Departmental Correspondence, General Correspondence, Development/Projects, Architectural Plans - University of British Columbia, and Architectural Plans and Drawings from the Dean of Arts Office.

Fonds consists of correspondence, blueprints, minutes from Faculty, School Council and various committee meetings, handwritten notes, reports, draft proposals, public service announcements, flyers, course syllabi, curriculum revisions, class schedules, student lists, various publications of the School and its students, news clippings, display materials, photographs, slides, audio cassettes, a videocassette, a book and a medal. Fonds is arranged in 15 series: General History of SLAIS, Administrative, Faculty, Accreditation, School Committees, Courses, Students, Professional Associations, CLA Discovery '87, School Publications, Anniversaries, External Publications and Clippings, Audio Tapes, Photographs and Slides.