This collection of the Bloomington Faculty Council Records consists of five series: Minutes, Circulars, Supporting documents, Committee Files, and Subject files.

Series one consists of the Minutes (1969-2019) for the regular meetings of the Bloomington Faculty Council and are also arranged chronologically. Minutes from the 1995-1998 time period are often unedited, however these are all that exist and according to the Bloomington Faculty Council these should be considered the official record. In the case of some of these meetings a synopsis of the meeting does exist and has been included with the minutes, while in others the synopsis is all that exists.

The Circulars (1969-2019) are supplementary documents which are the basis of discussion at meetings, and compose Series three. The Circulars are arranged by the classification scheme developed by the BFC which is generally governed numerically by school year. The assigned number corresponds to the order in which the document was issued to the Bloomington Faculty Council for review, and the date corresponds to the creation date of the document or the date of the Minutes to which it was attached (for example, circular 11-70 was created 21 July 1969). By exception, for circulars dated 1970-1972, the same numerical system was used for both the Bloomington Faculty Council and the University Faculty Council. In order to avoid confusion the complete list of circulars has been included in both collections. Some circulars from 1972 include a (B) or a (U) following the number of the circular in order to attribute it to the appropriate office.

The Supporting documents series (1969-2016), or series four, consists of three subseries: in subseries one miscellaneous legislative documents have been arranged chronologically. In subseries two, memos, issued by and to the Bloomington Faculty Council have been arranged chronologically and in subseries three, annual summaries, have been placed in chronological order.

The Committee files (1975-2010), contains three subseries, Budgetary Affairs (1975-2010), Faculty Grievance Committee (1984-1993) and Miscellaneous Other Committee Files (1995-2010). Files represent BFC Standing and Elected committees as well as Campus Committees on which a BFC member serves as a faculty representative.

Subject files (1995-2011), the final subseries, consists of files relating to the development of major university policies such as those on Intellectual Property and Firearms, as well as those that are administrative in nature such as procedures for Memorial Resolutions and Organizational meetings.