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Database Information

Description:
(1950s+) Access to special collection details of more than 4,400 repositories includes records with complete detailed indexes for approximately 100,000 individual collections. Includes access through NUCMC and NIDS subject headings.
Date Range:
1950s+
Updated:
Quarterly
Includes:
finding aids to archival collections; directory information on manuscript repositories
Subject Coverage:
Archives; Directories; History; Social Sciences
Types of Materials Covered:
Archival collections (more than 4,400 repositories; approximately 100,000 individual collections)
Geographic Scope:
United States
Content Provider:
Chadwyck-Healey Inc.
Software Requirements:
Web browser
Tips:
  • See database help page for searching tips.
  • Provides the NIDS microfiche number when available. This microfiche set is housed in the Luhr's Reading Room (Hayden Library, Level 4).
  • Contains the following resources:
    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)
    2. Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s through the end of 1999, covering some 76,000 collections.
    3. Names and detailed subject indexing of over 44,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).