About Archives USA: Provides information about primary source materials from nearly 4,800 U.S. manuscript repositories. Includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about nearly 109,000 manuscript and other special collections. Records come from the Library of Congress's National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC), the National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States, and collection records submitted directly to Archives USA. The database also includes a directory of manuscript repositories, giving addresses, 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 last published in 1988.
Years of Coverage: Lists of covered collections and repositories can browsed from within the database.
Online Access: World WideWeb
Access Restrictions: ECU campus. Students, faculty and staff with an ECU PirateMail account may access from off-campus. ECU's subscription provides for one user at a time for this database.
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