The collections has been divided into six series.

Series 1: Operational Records includes documents related to the running of the Black Organizations Council. This series is divided into four subseries: administrative files, meeting agendas and minutes, photographs, and financial records.

Subseries 1: Administrative Files includes the organiation's constitution, information about its constitutent member organizations, policies and guidelines, officer elections paperwork, meeting sign-in sheets, and other administrative information.

Subseries 2: Meeting Agendas and Minutes includes the minutes of general body and executive board meetings, the campus programming committee, and meetings with president Steger.

Subseries 3: Photographs includes an organizational scrapbook and a digital record of photographs of organization members and events.

Subseries 4: Financial Records includes budget requests and other financial records.

Series 2: Member Organizations includes photographs and other records related to student organizations that were members of the Black Organizations Council. This series has one subseries: Black Graduate Student Organization.

Subseries 1: Black Graduate Student Organization includes photographs, administrative papers, event flyers, and other materials about the Black Graduate Student Organization.

Series 3: Other Campus Organizations includes constitutions from the Jewish Student Union, University Council, and Student Budget Board as well as materials about the Interfraternity Council, the Asian American Student Union, and the Cultural Centers Advisory Committee.

Series 4: Events includes information about event planning by the Black Organizations Council, videos and photographs of events hosted in whole or in part by the Black Organizations Council, and videos and photographs of events hosted by other campus organizations. This series has nine subseries: Afrikan Awareness Weekend, Asian American Student Union, Black History Month, Black Student Leadership, Celebration of Diversity, Donning of the Kente, Filipino-American Student Association Culture Night, State of the Black Union, and Other Events.

Subseries 1: Afrikan Awareness Weekend includes videos of the 1990 and 1991 Afrikan Awareness Weekend events.

Subseries 2: Asian American Student Union includes videos and photographs of events hosted by the Asian American Student Union.

Subseries 3: Black History Month includes videos and photographs of Black History Month events.

Subseries 4: Black Student Leadership includes photographs of the 1999 Student Leadership Institute and the 2002 Carroll F. S. Hardy National Black Student Leadership Development Conference.

Subseries 5: Celebration of Diversity includes videos and photographs of the Celebration of Diversity event, primarily those held on September 12, 2001 and September 11, 2002.

Subseries 6: Donning of the Kente includes a video, photographs, programs, registrations forms, and other planning records related to the Donning of the Kente graduation event.

Subseries 7: Filipino-American Student Association Culture Night includes videos of the Filipino-American Student Association's Culture Nights from 1997 and 1998.

Subseries 8: State of the Black Union includes documentation and student feedback posters related to the State of the Black Union event.

Subseries 9: Other Events includes videos, photographs, and documents related to other events including An African American Food Taste, Black Organizations Showcase, Black Student Preview, Ebony Affair, Hispanic Heritage Month, Kwanzaa, Million Man March, Relay for Life, Safe Zone Reception, Virginia Nations Pow Wow, White Ribbon Campaign, and others.

Series 5: Presentations and Resources includes research from presentations given by members of the Black Organizations Council and materials maintained by the Black Organizations Council as resources for its membership.

Series 6: Black Cultural Center and Multicultural Center includes photographs of these two centers. This series has three subseries: Displays, Internal and External Views, and Faculty, Staff, and Students.

Subseries 1: Displays includes mounted photographs from center displays and photographs of displays set up by the centers.

Subseries 2: Internal and External Views includes internal and external photographs of the two centers.

Subseries 3: Faculty, Staff, and Students includes photographs of people who are associated with the centers.