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Finding Aids for RBSC Collections
- The Department maintains an extraordinary range of finding aids for its nearly 2000 collections of books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, coins and so forth.
- In order to learn about all these finding aids in detail,
consult the Reference Librarian / Archivist for the
Department. The office is on the first floor of Firestone
Library at the end of the main Exhibition Gallery. If the
Reference Librarian / Archivist is not available, other
professional staff will help you.
Brief Summary of the Finding Aids
- COLLECTIVELY
- Guide to Selected Special Collections of Printed Books and other Materials in the Princeton University Library published by the Library and updated annually. Call number is (DR) Z 664.P74q and (ExB) Z 664.P74q
- SINGLY
- Online and/or card catalogs of the Library
- Special card files for printed books such as the Association/Provenance file keep in the Department
- Special checklists for printed books such as the Weber list for the Virgil Collection
- Databases such as the one for French Revolutionary Pamplets
- Printed specialized catalogs such as the one for Emblem Books or the one for French Revolutionary Pamphlets
- Published bibliographies marked for Library's holdings and kept in the Department
- Vertical files on various collections which may have a checklist of the collection at the time of accession
- Exhibition catalogues, checklists, etc
- Accession lists printed in the Princeton University Library Chronicle
- Information Sheets
- VISUAL ITEMS
- COLLECTIVELY
- Guide to the Sorts of Materials serviced by the Visual Materials Division draft of 27 May, 1992 (still in progress)
- SINGLY
- Databases such as MASC or Visuals
- Printed exhibition catalogues such as American Graphic Arts or European Graphic Arts
- Various card files, such as the Museum objects file
Checklists, such as the summer 1993 list for the death masks
- COLLECTIVELY
- Guide to Modern Manuscripts in the Princeton University Library - 2 vol. published by G.K. Hall in 1989. Call number is (F) Z 661.P9453 and (DR) Z 661.P9453 and other locales
- Collection level description in the Online
Catalog, e.g.
Find k=dulles papers yields: Dwight D. Eisenhower presiden <archiv-mss> John Foster Dulles Papers <archiv-mss>
- Accession notes printed in the Princeton University Library Chronicle
- SINGLY
- MASC (Folio database for mss, archives, etc at Princeton University)
- Finding aids, usually 50+ page typescripts (Some finding aids are accessable through the World Wide Web)
- Printed specialized catalogs such as the ones for Near Eastern Manuscripts or the ones for Medieval Manuscripts
- Vertical files on various collections which may have a checklist of the collection at the time of accession
- Information Sheets
Online Finding Aids
Subjects |Master list of all collections | |At Firestone Library | At Mudd Library
- American Publishing History at Princeton
- Modern Latin American Literature
- American Religious History
- Music Manuscripts
- Women's Studies at Princeton
Master list
Manuscript Collections at Mudd Library
Manuscript Collections at Firestone Library
See master list 
Revised on June 16, 1997// Sept 12, 1997 // 15 October 1997[SF]
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Last Modified: November 08 2002
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