This list of documents (dated 1981-1998) is worth preserving because it represents papers which Warfield had assembled and considered "Core documents" in his collection of unpublished writings. I have it in two versions, an old PDF scanned version, and also a neat looking .rtf version for editing if desired. This list was not sent to GMU, but kept at home as reference list. We knew that all or most of the listed papers were already at GMU, having been sent as hard copy in years past. But we expected that the library would want digitized copies, and we had the computer files of all these titles collected and saved in a special computer folder named "Digitized Papers for the Web" to send when the digitizing got started. Below is a copy of Rose Warfield's email in August 2007 at the time we were collecting Warfield's Core Document files. (It had been necessary to scan a printout of a much older file created by Warfield to get his list into a computer file again. Warfield's original file, titled "draftlisting" was lost. We had to reconstitute his document file.)

The date of this email is 28 August 2007. "Warfield, here is the list of documents you were interested in having on the web some day. I put the list into a pdf file, and also here it is pasted into the email message so if you wish you can copy it into WordPerfect for editing. Love, R "-

DIGITIZED PAPERS FOR FENWICK LIBRARY TO INSTALL ON THE WEB:

1998 What questions have been formulated and answered in a 30-year research program to study complexity? Man221; 1997 Integration Ghana IM Workshop Report rptO05; 1997 Ghana Linkages Strategies Report rptO06; 1997 Readings for Bureaucrats pap078; 1997 Wandwaver Solution Magliocca (Ohio State Univ.) Open Letter rpt049; 1996 Wandwaver Solution-Creating the Great University rpt048; 1996 Evolution of the Problematique rpt053; 1995 An Essay on Complexity rpt013; 1995 Index to Friedman's Constraint Theory rpt017; 1995 Procrustes is Alive and Well and is Teaching Composition rpt040; 1995 Memtomology rpt065; 1994 Transfer of Interactive Management Technology to Ford rptO02; 1994 Some Lessons Learned rpt059; 1993 Groupthink, Clanthink, Spreadthink, and Linkthink: Case Studies in Behavioral Pathologies at Work rpt007; 1993 Preguntas rpt066; 1992 Argentina Seminar Series rpt030; 1988 Chios Conference Report on Design rpt026; 1983 Institutional Mechanics and the Great University rpt036; 1981 Institutional Mechanics rpt037.

We waited 8 or 9 months for some sort of go-ahead from Bridget Burke, GMU's Special Collections department head. The computer files that we were holding were never sent because no one at GMU ever asked for them. Much later we learned that during that interim Bridget had quit the job and left, and that there was no one heading the Special Collections department. See also the file name "Candidates for Warfield Digital Collection-1.rtf" holding similar list of titles, which we emailed to GMU April 2008. But by April 2008 GMU staff had already selected papers for the digitizing project, and had scanned papers from the boxes in Fenwick Library to put into the collection. Some of the titles in Warfield's 2007 "Core" list were scanned by GMU staff and are now in the Warfield Digital Collection, but not all of them. A few that Warfield believed fairly important had not been placed in the digitized group of his papers available to researchers for download from the web. In summary, the "Core documents" collection was long in materializing, was never identified as such, and is not completely on the web. But on the other hand, the GMU staff did find and scan an amazing number of Warfield's papers, over a hundred. So we were pretty happy about that. R.w. 7-8-2012/