How to Navigate the Online Catalog of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress

Description: 

In this video, Barbara Bair, Historian and Curator, as well as Exhibition Liasion, at the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, describes the variance of collections and items maintained by the Manuscript Division, and demonstrates how to navigate the Division's online catalog. Resources for researchers, digital collections, and methods for contacting reference staff are also discussed. This video supplements the session "Locating and Using Native American Archival Collections in Federal Repositories" given at the 2019 ATALM annual conference held in Temecula, California on October 8-11, 2019.

Protocol: 
Public Access
Community: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Category: 
Databases and GIS
Collections: 
2019 ATALM Resources, 2019 ATALM Short Video Tutorials, Digital Stewardship Curriculum Module 1: Get It
Original Date Description: 
10/09/2019
Original Date: 
2019 October 9th
Creator: 
Barbara Bair
Contributor: 
WSU Academic Outreach and Innovation
Language: 
English
Licensing Options: 
Creative Commons License

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Publisher: 
Sustainable Heritage Network
Format: 
MP4
Citation: 
Barbara Bair. "How to Navigate the Online Catalog of the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress." Sustainable Heritage Network. Accessed 24 April 2024, sustainableheritagenetwork.org/digital-heritage/how-navigate-online-catalog-manuscript-division-library-congress