Arrangement
The collection is organized into five main series: Drawings (DRWG), Office Files (OFFI), Pictures: Photographic Prints and Other Images (PICT), Negatives, Transparencies, Slides, and Microfilm (FILM), as well as Miscellany (MISC). Within each series, the materials are organized by size and then roughly alphabetically by project name or folder title with multi-project compilations, unidentified projects, non-Goodman projects, and personal materials filed at the end of the series.
Collection materials from a single project can span multiple media formats and are thus filed into multiple series based on the media type. Each project has been assigned a project number by Library staff to correlate project materials across series. For example the Alcoa House (1957) has the project number 5, so the 1957 Alcoa House's architectural drawings are identified as 5-DRWG, office files are 5-OFFI, and pictures are 5-PICT. For a listing of all projects and their correlating project number see the Project Index. All materials within a folder share the same call number; to identify individual drawings use the reproduction number if available (e.g., LC-DIG-ppmsca-12345).