Nearly 3200 photographs from the Alma Mater Society historical photograph collection are available online in the Alma Mater Society Image Collection, one of UBC Library Digital Collections.
The images “present a view of student life including images of the AMS Executive, Student Council and Executives, student protests and other student activities” from the time of the Great Trek in 1922 to the present, plus images of the Student Union Building (SUB) and other buildings students helped pay for on campus.”
Digitization began in the summer of 2009, when the AMS reached an agreement with UBC Library to use the Library’s digital collections management software (contentDM) to create an online collection that would be one of UBC Library’s digital collections. Assistants in the AMS Archives scan AMS hardcopy photos and upload them, along with born-digital photos, into contentDM, adding appropriate metadata.
A special project completed in 2013, in collaboration with the Artona Group photography studio, digitized all the large composite photo collages of AMS Student Council members from 1916 through to the present.
The AMS Image Collection is accessible through the UBC Library Digital Collections portal and also from the AMS website.
Image: Student Union Building Construction, 1967. Used with permission.