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Search all Manuscript Collections (Finding Aids)

Search all Manuscript Collections (Finding Aids). The finding aids below provide detail information about what can be found in each of the collections. This ...

Efficient Finding Aids: Developing a System for Control of Archives ...

Lacking this, it was diffi- cult to obtain a clear sense of what the top- ical foci of the papers were, what materials bulked largest in quantity or importance,.

Finding Aids | Congregational Library & Archives

Archivists prepare finding aids to assist researchers in working with a particular collection. These finding aids include descriptive information on a ...

Chapter 7. Description | Beinecke Manuscript Processing Manual

This chapter provides guidance for the creators of finding aids for manuscript collections. A finding aid provides information about the ...

HMCSL Manuscript Collection / Finding Aids - Google Sites

Housed at the Hawaiian Mission Houses Historic Site and Archives. ALEXANDER AND BALDWIN PAPERS, 1824-1911 Letters, papers, diaries, records, scrapbooks, and ...

1000 Finding Aids Now Online - Archives & Manuscripts @ Pitt

Of the 1,000 finding aids there are currently 144 with links to digitized records from their collection. So which collection had the distinction of being the ...

About Finding Aids - Bentley Historical Library

Finding aids are descriptive inventories, indexes, or guides that repositories create to describe and to provide access to the contents of manuscript ...

Digging into Finding Aids: The Road Map to Any Manuscript Collection

Genealogists use all kinds of tools to help them with their genealogy research. One of the best tools to understand and use when working with Manuscript ...

Finding Aid Type | National Archives

Examples of finding aids include published and unpublished inventories, container and folder lists, card catalogs, calendars, indexes, registers, and ...

Finding Aids Describe Rare Manuscript Collections

Finding Aids Describe Rare Manuscript Collections · Type your search term in the box on the main page to find something specific; · Click the ...

Collection Access Points - University Archives and Manuscripts

Electronic inventories. If there is not an online or typescript finding aid, there may be Word or Excel documents detailing what materials are ...

Finding Aids | LSU Libraries

Finding aids are descriptions of archival collections. Among other ... Acy (William) Papers. Mss. 717, 722. Adams (Israel L. and Family) Papers. Mss ...

Using Manuscript Finding Aids - LGBTQ+ Resources in the ...

Using Manuscript Finding Aids ... A finding aid provides a detailed description of a collection by summarizing the overall scope of the content, ...

Finding Aids Collection - Ryerson and Burnham Libraries and ...

A finding aid is a document—such as an inventory, catalog, index or shelf list—which describes a set of archival records. Archives use finding aids to establish ...

The evolution of the finding aid in the United States - UT iSchool

This, coupled with the size of twentieth-century manuscript collections, and an increasing sense of the archival character of historical manuscripts, led to a ...

Finding Aids Award - Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference

Miller Finding Aid Award: Lee Spilberg for the Guide to the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Papers of the New York Public Library. 2nd Place: Matthew Yount and ...

Search Tools and Finding Aids | Rutgers University Libraries

Most of our manuscript and archival collections have finding aids (also called collection guides or inventories). These are descriptions of a collection's ...

Using a Special Collections finding aid - YouTube

Using a Special Collections finding aid. 419 views · 3 years ago ...more. LSU Libraries. 162. Subscribe. 1. Share. Save.

Finding Aids - Perkins School For The Blind

The Perkins Archives holds collections in a variety of formats, including original manuscripts, ledgers, scrapbooks, clippings notebooks, photographs, ...

Catalogues & Finding Aids - The University of Nottingham

Archives and manuscripts are catalogued differently from library collections. In libraries, items relating to a particular subject are brought together into ...