Electronic Resources

ArchivesUSA

The ArchivesUSA database provides information about primary source materials from nearly 4,800 US manuscript repositories. ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about nearly 109,000 manuscript and other special collections.
Three major information resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA:

• Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS)last published in 1988.
• Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LCUs subject and name indexing of the collection. Only ArchivesUSA( makes all of NUCMC fully searchable in electronic form.
• Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).

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