I'd say it's about a 50/50 split between basic stage management info for students who are completely new to stage management and specific information relating to the stage management policies within the department. Due to department politics, it was never put into practice (though I hear that a student found it in the library and it's become an underground manifesto for the SMs who are trying to change current department policies).
I had written an 'unofficial' guide my last year in college, covering basically the above, plus comparing differences that I knew at the time existed between 'college' practice and 'real world' practice. I wrote mine at the request of the transfers and the undergrads who were being thrown to the wolves with no info (there was no SM class, you just started SMing). There was also a serious experience gap in those years, I was the only techie who'd been in the program longer than 2 years - I was the only techie senior and the juniors were all transfers. I went back a year or two later and found out that my guide had turned into this mysterious evil document that a secret student underground was keeping alive against the concerted efforts of the faculty to destroy. The new faculty member who I was meeting on that trip didn't know why - he said the most incindiary thing in it was the words "Proffessor C doesn't like 8am production meetings". I have no idea if the document has survived to this time, but it greatly amuses me that something so innocent and basic had this horrible rep.
-Centaura
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