This page is for a list of key resources that will help the description process.

• Step by step instructions for cataloging photos for the project can be found via Google Docs here

• University Photos in Credo| Go here to search existing University Photo collection. | hint: to find an exact image, you must type the MODS filename without the '.xml', e.g “murg150-i0003928”.

• List of faculty members
• List of Presidents
• List of Chancellors
• General Catalogue of Mass Aggie| Includes officers of government and instructors for 1863-1886.
• 1916 Index with photos of old buildings| On the occasion of UMass' 50th Anniv. See pp 31-50.
• Campus Memorials
• Links to Yearbooks on Archive.org| via the YouMass wiki.
• UMass Archives finding aid
• You Mass wiki| For historical info on well known figures and buildings at Umass. Still growing.
• Concordance| A comprehensive alphabetical index of UMass departments, programs, and other units, including acronyms
• Massachusetts Agricultural College in the War (1921)| A full-text searchable book of students who fought during World War I.

• Digital Sample Book Compare different photographic processes
• Historic timeline of photographic processes .jpg
• Graphics Atlas | Photographic processes information.
• Political Graveyard | For names of politicians large and small.
• Massachusetts Historical Society| Includes a list of known Massachusetts photographers and their addresses.
• Langdon Road | List of 19th & Early 20th Century Photographers
• Vintage Car List| If you know the make and model of a car in a photo it may help pinpoint a range of years.

• Massachusetts Agricultural College: 1863-1931
• Massachusetts State College: 1931-1947
• University of Massachusetts at Amherst: 1947-

• 3 x 5 in.
• 4 x 6 in.
• 5 x 7 in.
• 8 x 10 in.

• Danielle's power point presentation on metadata
• Location of encoded authorities: W:\university_photographs_project\authorities
• Location of MODS XML templates: W:\university_photographs_project\templates
• SCUA MODS Best Practices | Current version
• Library of Congress MODS User Guidelines
• Digital Library Foundation MODS Guidelines

Essential controlled vocabularies

• Library of Congress Name Authority File
• Virtual International Name Authority File
• Library of Congress Subject Authority File | Subject list. Great for free-floating subdivisions
• Art and Architecture Thesaurus | Genre list
• MARC Relator and Role terms
• AACR2 Place Name Abbreviations
• Library of Congress ISO 639-2 Code List
• Common AAT Terms