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Finding Archives and Manuscripts

Provides an overview of strategies for locating primary sources, including archival and manuscript material.

Finding Print Bibliographies

Print biblioraphies can be a rich resource for discovering materials on your topic. Print bibliographies can include topic-specific annotated bibliograhies and lists of materials in archives and special collections libraries.

To find print bibliographies in Library Catalog Search, go to advanced search and try the following:

Line 1: type in your topic as a keyword search

Line 2: type in "indexes OR catalogs OR bibliographies" as a subject term.


If you don't get useful results at first, try the search again using different search terms in the search box. If you know some of the subject headings associated with your topic, you can add them to your search. For example: