FINDING BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & IMAGES

Guide to Research Tools Begin here when starting research in the Beinecke Library. Contains an overview of the Library's online catalogs -- Orbis and the Yale University Library's Finding Aid Database -- as well as specialized databases including the Beinecke Digital Images database. Links to other pages describing advanced searching options for online catalogs and published catalogs of collections. Orbis (Yale's Online Catalogue) Orbis is the principal online public access catalog (OPAC) for Yale University, containing records for over 10 million items, including most of the Beinecke's printed holdings and many of the manuscript and archival holdings. Database of Archival Collections and Manuscripts This database consists of finding aids for archival and manuscript materials at Yale University. Their purpose is to provide information about the creation, historical context, arrangement, and content of archival and manuscript collections as well as the information necessary for users to identify and request the portions relevant to their research. These finding aids vary in style, depth of detail, and amount of materials covered, but their common purpose is to describe and enable access to archival and manuscript collections. This resource is primarily known as the Yale Finding Aid Database. Uncataloged Acquisitions Find records with brief information for material that has been acquired by the Beinecke Library but not cataloged in other online catalogs. In general these uncataloged materials were acquired after 1985 although the database includes some earlier acquisitions. Digital Images Online Search this database of approximately 90,000 images of a wide range of materials from the Beinecke Collections: photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works as well as scanned slides of Marinetti's Libroni on Furturism. Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts Catalog Search here for Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Beinecke Library. Special Collections: Additional Resources Identify other catalogs that describe collections not represented, or described in less detail, in other catalogs. Published catalogs are described separately.