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Background Information consists of an inventory and Cassidy's background notes on the collection. The inventory describes the collection at the box level and also provides descriptive information for each roll of film. The background notes give an overview of the collection, identify The Michigan Daily stories with which the photographs are associated, describe Cassidy's organizational schema, and explain his approach to scanning and selecting the images. The inventory also matches contact sheets (if extant) and DVDs to the film rolls.

Digital Images, the second series, contains 37 DVDs with the scanned images of Cassidy's photographs and a corresponding online collection of 4,882 digital images. The DVDs are identified by year and disc number and contain a notation about which sequence is on a particular disc (e.g., "9168-15 DNC_68018-68023"). High resolution versions of Cassidy's scanned negatives are available in a searchable database hosted by the university's Digital Library Production Services unit. The online Cassidy collection is the foundation of a larger project of the Bentley Library and The Daily to create Michigan Daily Alumni Photographers website.