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Manuscripts
and Archives
Archival
Resources integrates the portion of the Research Libraries Group's
RLIN database (Eureka)
containing descriptive records of archival collections with a growing
range of online finding aids or detailed collection guides and inventories.
Archival Resources comprises thus two types of material: collection
records and collection guides. Collection records describe collections
or specific portions of collections of primary source material related
to individuals, major events, places and government bodies. These
records give bibliographic descriptions of collections. Collection
guides (or finding aids) are detailed inventories that reveal where
a collection came from, how it is arranged, and what it contains.
Both the catalog records and detailed collection guides can provide
links to digitized archival materials themselves.
ArchivesUSA
integrates three resources: The National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections (NUCMUC), The Directory of Archives and Manuscript
Repositories in the US (DARMUS), and The National Inventory
of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS).
History
Universe provides a finding aid for 125 microform collections.
Materials can then be accessed through Yale University Library's collections
or through interlibrary loan.
WorldCat
contains records from academic, public, special and national libraries
around the world.
Yale
Finding Aids Project provides access to archival finding aids:
inventories, indexes, or guides that are created by archival and manuscript
repositories to provide information about specific collections. While
the finding aids created by repositories may vary somewhat in style,
their common purpose is to provide detailed description of the content
and intellectual organization of collections. Access to finding aids
through the Internet will assist scholars in determining whether collections
contain material relevant to their research.
The Yale
University Asian American Cultural
Center, located at 295 Crown Street, houses a library for Asian
American Studies and the archive of the Asian American Students Association.
The library is a small collection of books, past and current periodicals
and audio/visual materials relating to Asian Americans. The archive
contains records, clippings and documents dating back to 1969.
Below are
a few links and print guides to collections outside Yale:
Balch
Institute For Ethnic Studies
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Research Library. A Guide to
Manuscript and Microfilm Collections of the Research Library of the
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. Philadelphia: The Institute,
1992. SML Z1361 E4 +B35X 1992
Ethnic
Studies Library (UC-Berkeley)
Haseltine,
Patricia. East and Southeast Asian Material Culture in North America:
Collections, Historical Sites, and Festivals. New York: Greenwood,
1989. SML E184 O6 H37 1989
Japanese
American Exhibit and Access Project University
of Washington Libraries
Korean
American Digital Archive University of Southern
California
University
of Minnesota. Immigration History Research Center. The Immigration
History Research Center: A Guide to Collections. Comp.
Suzanna Moody. New York: Greenwood, 1991. Reference Z1361 E4 U58X
1991
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