Resumes, clippings, correspondence, lists, and similar documents relating to Bergin's professional and academic promotions and accomplishments. Includes general (chronological) files and files on particular subjects, including: job offers at Texas A+M University and the Hong Kong Academy for the Performing Arts; materials and letters of congratulations on Bergin's appointment as Dean of the CCE and as a member of the National Council on the Arts; requests for publications; and minority recruitment by Time, Inc.

Lecture notes, bibliographies, syllabi, and pertinent clippings and articles for some of Bergin's Notre Dame classes. These classes pertained mainly to business-government relations, government farm programs, and the A&P anti-trust case.

Bergin's dissertation and later primary academic interest was the effect of state and regional assistance for industrial development. These files contain some of the research conducted on this topic for Bergin's dissertation and later research in about 1962 and 1971. Mainly, however, this series contains letters and news stories responding to the publication of Bergin's findings and includes letters from the various state governors elected in November 1962.

Copies of books, magazines, clippings, etc. which Bergin kept either as reference material or because he published or was mentioned in them.

Individual folders, arranged chronologically, for many of the meetings and events Bergin attended or gave speeches to and some of the articles and essays he wrote. Includes correspondence, brochures, mailings, meeting materials, and transcripts or drafts. These files do not represent Bergin's activities in any of the organizations of which Bergin was a regular and active member.

Folders, arranged alphabetically by organization name, containing correspondence, mailings, brochures, pamphlets, and similar materials pertaining to that organization. Bergin was a member of some of these organizations and he had some small dealings with all of them.

Bergin was a member and active participant in various education, arts, and community development organizations; these included all types of private, business, government, professional, and local, state, regional, national, and international groups. Bergin's most prominent roles were as chairman of the Indiana Arts Commission (middle-1970s) and as a member of the National Council on the Arts (late-1970s and early-1980s); however, Bergin was active in all the organizations represented here. Theses records consist overwhelmingly of mailings, meeting materials (such as minutes, agenda, reports, grant applications, etc.), reports, transcripts, articles, books, essays, clippings, press releases, membership lists, rules of organization, and the like: the rest of the files contain correspondence to and from Bergin, notes taken during meetings, drafts and ideas, and similar manuscript items. The files have been divided by organization as best could be done though it is clear that some folders and stacks of loose documents pertained to more than one organization: this was especially troublesome when one organization had frequent correspondence with another. Within the records relating to one organization the arrangement is ideally chronological, but frequently even such order is lacking. For this reason the dating of the files is tentative at best.