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Database information for ArchivesUSA Web

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• Coverage: 1950-current
• Type(s) of Content: Index
• Subject Areas: Arts and Humanities ; General ; Social Sciences
• Library of Congress Clasification:
• Short Description:
  Provides bibliographic access to holdings of over 4000 archival repositories, with contact information
• Annotation:
  Detailed information including phone and fax numbers, hours of service, materials solicited, email and URLs for repositories. ArchivesUSA includes:

  • The entire collection of The National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) from 1959 to the present. NUCMC includes information gathered and indexed by the Library of Congress, covering more than 80,000 collections.
  • Names and detailed subject indexing of over 50,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in Chadwyck-Healey's microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States (NIDS). Collection descriptions submitted directly to us from repositories.
  • More than 3,000 links to online finding aids.