The California Board of Social Work Examiners and California Conference of Social Work Education Committeee records consist primarily of correspondence and board meeting minutes, 1937-1961, that documents the activities of these two related entities. Also included are Included in the combined collections are reports, legislative materials, statistics, and one sample examination question. The records describe Board meetings, California legislation regarding the licensing of social workers, statistics on and evaluations of the social work licensing examination and state licensing codes. The latter part of the records contains information on the founding and activities of the California Conference of Social Work State Committee on Education, founded in 1951 with the goal of developing appropriate programs of education for future social workers. The majority of the correspondence in both parts of the records was authored by or directed to Maurice J. Ostomel and Runo Arne, both of whom servied in executive positions with the Board, in addition to their other responsibilities with social welfare agencies.