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An improved "IU Finding Aids" site now includes descriptions and inventories of:

*collections from the IU Center for the Study of History and Memory

*political papers

*Liberian collections

*folklore collections

Previously the site provided access to collection descriptions and inventories from the Lilly, Archives, and the Workingmen's Institute in New Harmony.

The new site provides cross-repository search and browse, meaning that researchers can search all collections at once.

Finding aids are guides to collections held in archives and libraries at Indiana University. Generally, descriptions of items in manuscript collections, such as letters, diaries, and photographs, do not appear in IUCAT (IU's online catalog). Finding aids provide detailed descriptions of manuscript collections, their intellectual organization and, at varying levels of analysis, individual items in the collections.

Access to the finding aid is essential for understanding the true content of a manuscript collection. TheWeb site allows researchers to search and view finding aids.

Visit the site: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/collections/findingaids