Articles Describing Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography

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The first bibliography to systematically list the numerous articles describing archives and manuscript collections in the United States, this volume includes over 2,200 titles. It goes beyond the continental United States, including articles describing foreign archives that hold records and manuscripts documenting U.S. history and also incorporating articles about archives and manuscript holdings in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and other U.S. Trust Territories. The book is multidisciplinary, containing entries from art, theatre, film and television, business, education, history, librarianship, literature, religion, and other fields. This volume will be useful to researchers using the historical method and to librarians who are frequently asked questions about archival sources. The volume's 2,200 entries are arranged topically and geographically. Annotations clarify the article's title and will help the reader determine which articles to review. The detailed index will help the reader locate articles describing the holdings of specific collections or the papers of specific individuals. This book will be sought after and appreciated by all those doing research in unpublished sources.

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DeWitt has produced this companion to his Guides to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States (1994). The more than 2,000 brief annotated entries list collections under 13 topical headings (e.g., business, ethnic minorities, literary, political, regional) and describe not only traditional textual materials but also photographic, oral history, sound recording, motion picture, and machine-readable records...Appropriate for research libraries.-Choice
Orginally, I thought DeWitt's guide was somewhat frivolous. But having gone through it carefully for the purpose of this notice, I now see where it will prove to be useful to reference archivists. We now have a tool to which researchers can be referred for information about American collections.-Archivaria
"Orginally, I thought DeWitt's guide was somewhat frivolous. But having gone through it carefully for the purpose of this notice, I now see where it will prove to be useful to reference archivists. We now have a tool to which researchers can be referred for information about American collections."-Archivaria
"DeWitt has produced this companion to his Guides to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States (1994). The more than 2,000 brief annotated entries list collections under 13 topical headings (e.g., business, ethnic minorities, literary, political, regional) and describe not only traditional textual materials but also photographic, oral history, sound recording, motion picture, and machine-readable records...Appropriate for research libraries."-Choice

Author Bio

DONALD L. DEWITT is Curator of the Western History Collections at the University of Oklahoma. He has been an archivist and manuscript curator for over 25 years and is the author of several articles on archival administration. He is the author of Guides to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography (Greenwood, 1994), which complements this volume.