National Institute of Industrial Psychology

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 NIIP
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: National Institute of Industrial Psychology
Date(s)	: 1919-1977
Level of description	: collection
Extent	: 78 boxes, 3 wooden boxes of glass plate negatives, 2 folders, 27 boxes containing NIIP publications and 1 bankers box of
Name of creator(s)	: National Institute of Industrial Psychology

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The NIIP was founded in 1921 by Dr C S Myers, Director of the Cambridge Psychological Laboratory. Dr Myers was backed by a group of businessmen led by H J Welch, who gave their support and encouragement. Myers became the first Director of the Institute. The NIIP was a non-profit making scientific organisation for the study of industry and commerce. It aimed to promote the application of psychology and physiology within these fields. The Institute conducted research into problems of general interest to the industrial and commercial sector, and published the results. It also undertook research into the problems of particular organisations and suggested solutions. The NIIP began to expand rapidly in the mid 1960s, following support from the Ministry of Technology. The withdrawal of this funding from the end of the decade, however, contributed to the acute problems facing the organisation by the middle of the 1970s. The NIIP suspended activity in 1973, but later, aided by the North East London Polytechnic, continued to work on a smaller scale. It finally closed in 1976.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Papers of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, comprising records of committees, account books and registers; internal correspondence and correspondence with clients; staff files; papers relating to vocational guidance and intelligence testing, research projects, staff, procedures, and prizes; annual reports and ephemera; and photographs.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The collection is arranged in 17 sections:
1. Provisional Committee, 1919-1921.
2. Executive Committee, 1921-1953.
3. Vocational Guidance Committee/Sub-Committee, 1921-1938.
4. Scientific Committee/Scientific Advisory Committee, 1920.
5. Finance Committee, 1934-1947, and Finance and General Purposes Committee, 1949-1973.
6. Women's Committee, 1930-1939.
7. Other Minute Books, Account Books and registers, 1921-1969.
8. Correspondence with Officers and Member of Council, 1933-1977.
9. Staff Files (CLOSED), 1928-1977.
10. Internal NIIP files, Vocational Guidance and testing, 1928-1974, and files on institute staff and finance, c1965-1971.
11. Internal Papers: Research Project staff and procedures, also vocation guidance and Institute Finance, 1921-1973.
12. Internal Papers, including Director and Committee papers, minutes of staff meetings, 1923-1973.
13. Internal Papers: Vocational Guidance and Intelligence Testing, also staff training, NIIP Library, research reports, 1930-1969.
14. Correspondence with clients, 1942-1977.
15. Various Institute Occasional Prizes etc, Royal Commission on Awards to Investors, 1928-1930.
16. Annual Reports and Ephemera, 1920-1970.
17. Photographs, 1920-1970.

Conditions governing access:

OPEN

Conditions governing reproduction:

COPYRIGHT IS HELD BY THE LIBRARY

Finding aids:

Printed handlist and online catalogue available.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

Related material:

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Output from CAIRS using template 14 and checked by hand on May 29, 2002

Rules or conventions:

Date(s) of descriptions:
29 May 2002