There are no access restrictions on the materials, and the collection is open to all members of the public in accordance with state law. Scrapbooks from 1940 to 1988 contain few articles on the history or politics of municipal recreation and adult education and consist almost entirely of articles about events and activities. This suggests that by 1940, the concept of municipal recreation and adult education was firmly established in Milwaukee and that its existence was taken for granted. Items within the scrapbooks are not arranged in strict chronological order. Articles appear out of sequence and are duplicated within and among the scrapbooks.
Many articles are undated.
Pages in some scrapbooks were incorrectly assembled, either when the book was originally compiled or at a later date. Some effort has been made to restore the original order, but the fact that articles were not arranged on the page in strict chronological order made this difficult. Several of the scrapbooks are in very poor condition. This arrangement is maintained in the finding aid. However, in a handful of cases, the Division did not divide the scrapbooks into separate sections.