Organizations & Initiatives of Interest to Picture Catalogers

General Directories

Photography Organizations

• Google: http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Photography/Organizations/
• Yahoo! Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Photography/Organizations/

UNESCO Archives Portal: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=5761&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1036514637

UNESCO Libraries Portal: http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=6513&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1063232873

Individual Organizations

American Association for State and Local History (AASLH): http://www.aaslh.org/

American Association of Museums (AAM): http://www.aam-us.org/

American Historical Print Collectors Society: http://www.ahpcs.org/

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works: http://aic.stanford.edu/

American Society of Picture Professionals: http://www.aspp.com/

Archives and Museum Informatics: http://www.archimuse.com/

Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS): http://www.arlisna.org

Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), Rare Book and Manuscripts Section (RBMS): http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/rbms.html

Association for Image and Information Management (AIIM): http://www.aiim.org/

AUTOCAT (cataloging listserv): http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/autocat/

Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN): http://www.chin.gc.ca/

Collaborative Digitization Program: http://www.cdpheritage.org/

Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR): http://www.clir.org/

Digital Journalist: A Multimedia Magazine for Photojournalism in a Digital Age:
http://www.digitaljournalist.org/

Digital Library Federation: http://www.diglib.org/dlfhomepage.htm

Do History: http://dohistory.com/

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: http://dublincore.org/

Ephemera Society of America: http://www.ephemerasociety.org/

Exlibris (special collections listserv): http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/

Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative: http://www.digitizationguidelines.gov/

History Matters: http://www.historymatters.gmu.edu/

Image Permanence Institute: http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org

ImageLib (image database listserv): http://listserv.arizona.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=imagelib

International Committee for Documentation, International Council of Museums (ICOM-CIDOC): http://www.cidoc.icom.org/

International Council on Archives (ICA): http://www.ica.org/

International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA): http://www.ifla.org

Library of Congress (LC)

• Home page: http://www.loc.gov
• Especially for Librarians and Archivists: http://www.loc.gov/library/
• Standards: http://www.loc.gov/standards/
• Prints & Photographs Division Cataloging Tools and Resources: cataloging.html

Museum Computer Network (MCN): http://www.mcn.edu/

National Archives and Records Center (NARA):

• Home page: http://www.archives.gov/
• Preservation: http://www.archives.gov/preservation/index.html
• Records Management, Other Resources: http://www.archives.gov/records_management/other_resources.html

National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH): http://www.ninch.org/

National Park Service Museum Management Program (NPS MMP): http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/

Northeast Documentation Conservation Center (NEDCC): http://www.nedcc.org/

Online Computer Library Center (OCLC): http://www.oclc.org/home/

Picture Archive Council of America (PACA): http://www.pacaoffice.org/

Ready, Net, Go! http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html

Research Libraries Group (RLG): http://www.rlg.org/toc.html

Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access (SEPIA): http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/

Society of American Archivists (SAA)

• Home page: http://www.archivists.org/
  • Listserv: http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp
• Visual Materials Section: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/VMhome.html
  • Listserv: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/SAA/vmelist.html
• Visual Materials Section Cataloging and Access Round Table: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/vmcar/vmcar.htm

Sun SITE (Software Information & Technology Exchange): http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/

Technical Advisory Services for Images (TASI): http://www.tasi.ac.uk/

Visual Resources Association (VRA): http://www.vraweb.org/

• VRA-L (listserv): http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/vra-l.html

Compiled by Helena Zinkham, Head, Technical Services Section. Last updated: May 2006