University Archives Classification System

All numbers assigned to material in Archives commence with UP.

• UPA through UPK inclusive are reserved for material strictly archival in nature.

• UPL through UPO inclusive are reserved for publications.

• UPP through UPZ inclusive are reserved for auxiliary material, properly belonging in the Archives, but not archival material in the narrower sense.

Plan initiated 29 September 1948
Last Revised: September 2001

More specific information about this classification system and University Archives holdings is available in:

• a summary of the types of materials in each category UPA to UPZ (available as a 3 page, 22 kb PDF file)

• a detailed listing of all collections in the UPA to UPZ categories last updated September 2001 (available as a 163 page, 236 kb PDF file)

How to read, search and print PDF files