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Finding Aids for Manuscripts


Finding Aids | Researcher Resources | Manuscript Reading Room

A finding aid provides a detailed description of a collection by summarizing the overall scope of the content, conveying details about the individuals and ...

Library of Congress Finding Aids: Search/Browse

Search Library of Congress finding aids by keyword. Browse finding by collection, date, LC location, name, name/title, and subject. Finding aids are XML ...

Archival Guides - Rare and Manuscript Collections - Cornell University

Archivists prepare guides to archival and manuscript collections, which are also known as finding aids. These guides typically contain a prose description ...

Finding aids - Folgerpedia

Finding aids are hierarchical descriptions of individual collections of manuscripts, archival materials, and other distinct groupings.

What is a finding aid? - Ask a Librarian

Finding aids are rarely item indexes. Most finding aids for Manuscript Division collections are available online. It is important to note that ...

Finding Aids and Inventories - Special & Area Studies Collections

Finding aids are descriptive tools such as guides, inventories, or catalogs, which are used to describe archival records and manuscript collections.

Identifying Collections - Finding Archives and Manuscripts

In the best case scenario, a collection is fully described in a finding aid that can be searched through a database like WorldCat or Archive ...

Using Finding Aids - Guide to the Schomburg Center's Manuscripts ...

Finding aids are designed to help you navigate archival collections to locate materials pertinent to your topic. They serve as the map to the collection.

Manuscripts in libraries: catalog versus finding aid

A library collection has a catalog, and an archival collection has a finding aid. A catalog lists each item or group of items in a repository one after the ...

Finding Aids for Manuscripts & UCSD Archives - Geisel Library

The Online Archive of California. A union database of finding aids for numerous California repositories, including all the UC special collection libraries and ...

Emory Law Archives and Manuscripts Research - Research Guides

Archival Finding Aids, also known as an inventory or collection list, are tools that provide a description of the contents that make up a collection.

Library Research Guide for Finding Manuscripts and Archival ...

Not all repositories report their records at all, and many finding aids exist only in paper in their home repositories. This system has ...

Find sources in manuscript collections - UChicago Library

A finding aid is a guide to an archival or manuscript collection. Finding aids include a narrative overview of the scope and contents of a collection, often ...

Manuscript Finding Aids | The New York Historical

Browse a listing of finding aids for the Library's Manuscript Collection.

Archival & Manuscript Finding Aids (ArchiveSpace) Help Guide

The University of Florida utilizes a content management system called ArchivesSpace to store and display our archival and manuscript finding aids which can be ...

Using Finding Aids - Manuscript Reading Room - Library of Congress

A finding aid provides a detailed description of a collection by summarizing the types of material and overall scope of the content, conveying details about ...

How to Read a Finding Aid - Primary Sources in Archives & Special ...

A finding aid is a document that provides a description of an archival collection to guide people in using the collection for research.

Finding Aids - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Archivists compose these guides to help researchers navigate the contents of unique primary sources like records, personal papers, or manuscripts. Depending on ...

Finding Aids - Free Library of Philadelphia

A finding aid is a guide to an archival collection. Finding aids include information about the collection's creator(s) and subject matter.

Archives and Manuscript Research: Finding Aids

Finding aids provide detailed descriptions of items contained within a folder, binder, or other storage item. Finding aids are found, for example, in an ...