The records include correspondence/subject files, grant files, financial documents, files, and miscellaenous materials relating to individual ACNO projects. Records have been deposited in 1996, 2004, 2011, and 2017. They document the Council's grant-making function, activities of the Board of Directors, arts and community activities of the Executive Director and other staff members, and the relationship of ACNO with individual artists, arts organizations, donors/potential donors (both individual and corporate), and government agencies. Also included are the files for the Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program (1995-1997) and the MEG/Arts METRO/ACNO Program (1995), grants for Public Art, and general administrative files and files relating to the 1999-2000 "Festival of Fins." More detailed information on the scope and contents of these records is included in the individual series and subseries descriptions that follow. The series arrangement adopted for the records follows as much as possible the original order in which they were received from the Arts Council.