McCormack Collection Expansion Continues through Digitization Project at UMass Amherst Libraries | Office of News & Media Relations | UMass Amherst

AMHERST, Mass. –

"The Department of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) in the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries, in conjunction with the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management in the Isenberg School of Management, announce a new milestone for the Mark H. McCormack Collection with approximately one-third of the estimated 50,000 items now available in digital form. The collection is composed of records from the personal and professional life of International Management Group (IMG) founder Mark H. McCormack and contains more than 2,500 boxes and 5 million individual items. To date, more than 17,000 documents spanning 1957 to 1980 have been processed and are now available online via Credo, SCUA’s digital repository at credo.library.umass.edu. In the past six months the online archive has grown by more than 14,000 files."