The papers document Azim's twelve years in the Wisconsin Assembly. Included are correspondence with constituents, state agency employees, and other legislators; memoranda; reports; minutes; notes; and informational material distributed to influence legislation. The collection is organized as general files, subject files, and bill files. Documentation, including both the subject files and the bill files, is most extensive for the 1975-1976 session. There appear to be some gaps in the coverage, although the complicated and overlapping structure of the subject files makes it difficult to estimate the extent of the missing material. Furthermore, some important files were removed prior to donation by Mrs. Azim, either for Azim's successor or for her own use. Thus, there are no personal files and only scattered political items in the collection. In addition, except for a few miscellaneous items extracted from scattered folders, press releases, biographical clippings, and newsletters are also absent. The missing files are noted in the listing included in Box 1.
GENERAL FILES include the incomplete run of newsletters, press releases and clippings gathered from various locations in the collection, the 1975 office file listing, and some chronologically-arranged correspondence dating from 1964 to 1969.
SUBJECT FILES divide into three overlapping chronological groups; 1964-1967; 1971-1974, and 1965-1976. The last group chiefly pertains to the 1975-1976 session. It is divided into broad subjects (such as education, local and medical issues, and the Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission), and then further subdivided into more specific files. Most extensive are folders on the Highway Safety Committee, the Governor's Council on Traffic Law Enforcement, and the Governor's Committee on Conservation of Outdoor Resources. Because of Azim's service on various educational study committees, there are numerous files on educational concerns, as well as on his involvement with UW-Platteville. The local files include material on the Southwestern Regional Community Action Program, the Dubuque Bridge, the the Southwestern Regional Planning Commission.
The BILL FILES are arranged by session and by bill number. Documentation on the 1969 and 1971 sessions is absent, and for earlier legislatures bill originating in the Assembly are most evident. Subjects most extensively documented are bills on the UW System merger, binding arbitration for public employees, and revision of the Wisconsin Children's Code.
