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Robert "Bob" Lewis Glasser worked as a Contract Administrator and a Senior Environmental Analyst for the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. During his employment with Disney, he collected various reports, promotional materials, publications and memorabilia mainly related to the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) Center. Bob also worked for the Office of Florida's Secretary of State between 1962 to 1970 as a Director for Buildings & Grounds Division and gathered a few campaign and election materials which can be found within the collection.

The Thomas Cavanagh Disney scripts, 1990-1991, features three Disney scripts collected by Thomas Cavanagh during his time working as a production coordinator. The collection consists of shooting drafts with notes and revisions for a Disney Channel series and two television specials. This collection offers insight into the preproduction process of Disney television scripts before they are filmed. The shooting drafts highlight some of Disney Channel's content during the early 1990s. Thomas B. Cavanagh is a writer, educator, and digital learning educational expert. From 1988 to 1990, Cavanagh worked as a production coordinator for the Disney Channel and Blue Wave Productions. His credits include episodic work on the shows featured in this collection, such as The Mickey Mouse Club. From 1990 to 1994, he wrote on multiple television series for production companies such as Nickelodeon and the Sea World/Anheuser Busch Entertainment group. In 2005, his first of three crime novels, Murderland, was published. In 2006, Cavanagh began his career in higher education and, in 2009, he returned to UCF as assistant vice president of distributed learning until he was promoted to associate vice president in 2013. Cavanagh has served as the vice provost for digital learning at UCF since 2017. During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Cavanagh led the initiative to pivot UCF to 100% remote instruction. As of 2023, Thomas B. Cavanagh resides in Central Florida with his family.