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Guides and Finding Aids | National Archives

This guide is an indispensable tool for locating films related to modern Jewish history in the National Archives holdings. Heavily illustrated, ...

Guides and Finding Aids - Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library ...

Guides and Finding Aids. A finding aid (also known as an inventory or register) is a description of the material found within a manuscript collection. Finding ...

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 ...

Collection Guides and Finding Aids (Prints and Photographs ...

Finding Aids to Contents of Particular Collections. The Prints and Photographs Division is one of several parts of the Library that provides access to finding ...

Finding Aid Source | National Archives

Finding aids are tools that help a user find information in a specific record group, collection, or series of archival materials.

Using a finding aid - Visiting Special Collections - Research Guides

A finding aid is a descriptive guide for archival collections and usually includes information about the creator of the materials, formats included, dates ...

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 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.

Finding Aid Tutorial - Archives & Special Collections - CSI Library

Finding aids are used to describe archives and manuscript collections in order to provide access to their contents.

Introduction to Primary Source Research: How to use finding aids ...

Finding Aids/Collection Guides contain descriptive information about collections. They will either provide an overview of the contents of each box or a list of ...

Library of Congress Finding Aids: Search/Browse

Search Library of Congress finding aids by keyword. Browse finding by collection ... guides. Searches do not include the full text of linked appendices, indexes ...

Using Finding Aids - Special Collections and University Archives

Finding Aids are documents that help you understand a collection and navigate its materials. They include information like a brief summary, topics and subjects.

How to use collection guides | University of Arizona Libraries

A collection guide (also known as a finding aid) is a detailed record of an archival collection. Collection guides help researchers explore the contents of a ...

NC State University Libraries Collection Guides

Collection guides identify, describe, and list the contents of collections of materials that are not individually cataloged.

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.

An Introduction to Finding Aids - Archival Research Guide

A finding aid is a tool archivists use to intellectually organize an archival collection hierarchically from the broadest description (Fonds ...

Finding Aids - FDR Presidential Library & Museum

A finding aid is a guide to a particular archival collection. Archivists compose these guides to help researchers navigate the contents of unique primary ...

Introduction to Archival Research: What is a Finding Aid?

A Finding Aid is a document written by archivists to describe an archival collection. A Finding Aid describes the history of a collection and the arrangement ...

What is a finding aid? - Ask Us! - UCLA Library

A finding aid is a guide that describes what is contained in a collection of archival materials. Finding aids enable you to locate and request materials from ...

Gallery Archives Finding Aids

Finding aids are guides to the collections of papers and records in the National Gallery of Art Archives.