The Betsy and Tom Giduz Papers contain research materials pertaining to animal rights organizations dating from 1981-1990. The majority of the collection consists of published sources.
Betsy and Tom Giduz, residents of Orange County, North Carolina, amassed documents pertaining to animal rights.
The Betsy and Tom Giduz Papers ranges in date primarily from 1981 to 1990. Most of the research contains information from and about local, national, and international animal rights organizations and issues pertaining to biological and medical research. There are also documents about animal care and human-animal interactions. This research comes in the form of newspaper and magazine articles, newsletters, various forms of correspondence, handouts, flyers, and a plethora of miscellaneous items, such as posters, stickers, photographs, and slides.
The Historical and General Information series relates to the animal rights movement and the beginning of the movement itself. The Animal Research series offers general information, as well as research on alternative methods of medical and biological research. The Organizations series has information on the various local, national, and international animal rights groups and their causes. The Topical Materials series includes documents on issues that pertain to various forms of animal testing, recreational activities involving animals, and alternative lifestyles; materials relating to education, law, and religion. Finally, the Publications series has editorials, journal articles, and other ephemeral publications produced by various local and national animal rights organizations. The Bibliography includes a list of those serials and monographs located in the books collection that were donated by the Giduz with this collection. The Additions series contains materials added after initial processing that may or may not be duplicated in the foregoing series.
North Carolina State University does not own copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.
[Identification of item], Betsy and Tom Giduz Papers, MC 00289, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
Donated by Betsy and Tom Giduz, August, 2000.
The collection is organized into six principal series:
This series primarily pertains to the origins of the animal rights movement and basic information on the movement itself. It also has a plethora of documents relating to general animal care. The series consists of flyers, pamphlets, advertisements, booklets, posters, and reports from a variety of local, national, and international animal rights groups. The correspondence mainly stems from animal rights groups, but some of the letters are from the Giduz's or other individuals involved in the movement. There are also newspaper, journal, and magazine articles from around the country including The Animals' Agenda, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, the Raleigh News and Observer, the New York Times, the Chapel Hill Newspaper, and the Washington Post.
This series documents animal research in general and alternative methods of research. There are ephemeral materials, including papers, bulk mail, pamphlets, flyers, advertisements, newsletters, journal, newspaper, and magazine articles, and other forms of promotional materials produced by different animal rights groups. The folder Animal Research contains two papers: the Animal Rights Protection Society of Orange County's paper entitled APS Position on Research Laboratory Animals; and Gul Agha's paper entitled, Myths and Realities of Animal Experimentation. The folder Alternatives to Animal Research has some abstracts and a bibliography as well. The folder UNC, Crisp List contains two annual reports from the Animal and Plant Health Inspection and computer printouts on different types to testing used on different species of animals.
This series, the largest in the collection, has documents pertaining to the various local, national, and international animal rights groups. Many of the folders contain correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, pamphlets, flyers, and handouts that promote either the organization or the various animal rights issues they are concerned with. Much of the correspondence includes membership letters or is between the Giduz's and various officials of animal rights groups, such as Neal Barnard (president of PCRM ), Nancy Rich (N.C. Network for Animals), and Ingrid Newkirk (PETA). Other significant materials include: a paper written by Tom and Betsy Giduz entitled The Use of Non-Human Animals in Medical Education created in conjunction with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine; documents on primate research, primarily the Silver Spring Monkeys, associated with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) organization; photographs and slides from PETA's unauthorized visit to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Animal Holding Facility in December 1988; and court documents relating to the SETA v. Dr. William D. Huffines, who at the time of the case was Chairman of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This series is arranged alphabetically.
This series contains documents addressing the various issues that concern many animal rights activists. Many of the items, like newspaper, journal, magazine articles, pamphlets, and flyers, discuss the different sides to each issue, and in many cases offer solutions to a particular issue. Much of the correspondence was generated by either the Giduz' or other individuals affiliated with the various animal rights groups. The Cosmetic Testing folder contains some photographs of animal experiments. The folder Dog and Cock Fighting contains a couple of petitions to end the practice. In the Fur and Anti-Trap folder, there are several stickers and bumper sticker that promote a ban on wearing fur. The issues are arranged alphabetically.
This series offers documents that discuss the various forms of protest, dissection in biology classes, and human-animal interactions. It contains a range of teaching materials as well. Most of the documents come in the form of pamphlets, booklets, newspaper and magazine articles, handouts, flyers, and worksheets. In the folder Humane Bibliography, there are two bibliographies on animal abuse, animal rights, and animal welfare. This series is arranged alphabetically.
This series contains research on legal matters pertaining to animals and animal rights protection. The folder Ordinances contains various North Carolina counties' and Jefferson County, Kentucky animal ordinances. The series is arranged alphabetically.
This series includes research on how religion has played a role in the animal rights movement. The documents, like newsletters, pamphlet, magazine articles, and correspondence, in this series were primarily generated by the Unitarian Universalists for Ethical Treatment of Animals.
After review, access to the digital copies may be provided for use in the SCRC Reading Room upon request.
The Special Collections Research Center, NC State University Libraries, has digital copies of some or all of these materials.
This series contains editorials, journal articles, primarily from journals like National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), and The North Carolina Medical Journal (NCMJ), miscellaneous newsletters from various local animal rights groups, and catalogs that either promote merchandise from a particular organization or products that were not tested on animals. Many of the articles in the folder Editorials are written by Belton P. Mouras (API). The various articles in the folder Medical Journal Articles discuss the authors' position on a topic relating to animal research and its association with medicine. The articles are arranged chronologically by date of publication.
This series contains materials that may or may not be duplicated in the foregoing series. The additions include brochures, newsletters, correspondence, flyers, and other items related to animal rights in general and specific issues related to animal rights, such as animal research, vegetarianism, use of fur in fashion, trapping and hunting, responsible farming, and other topics.
This collection is open for research; access requires at least 48 hours advance notice. Because of the nature of certain archival formats, including digital and audio-visual materials, access to digital files may require additional advanced notice.
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[Identification of item], Betsy and Tom Giduz Papers, MC 00289, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC
North Carolina State University does not own copyright to this collection. Individuals obtaining materials from the NC State University Libraries' Special Collections Research Center are responsible for using the works in conformance with United States copyright law as well as any donor restrictions accompanying the materials.
This collection may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which North Carolina State University assumes no responsibility.