Who has the manuscript?

Looking for unique information can be very difficult. Google will pull up popular, common information but what about that special manuscript or primary document, how do you find it?

From GALILEO notes -

ArchivesUSA is a unique database for scholars and researchers who use primary source materials. It provides location information for primary source materials. The database integrates three major information resources:

Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail 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 through the end of 1997, covering some 76,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection.

Resource 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).

The NUCMC and NIDS information has been integrated to provide a single record for each collection, with detailed information drawn from both resources when available. The first installment of a growing body of collection records submitted directly to ArchivesUSA has also been included.

The full text manuscript is not in the database but the location of the information is noted. We can borrow materials through InterLibrary Loan. Most institutions will copy and fax articles up to a certain page length.

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