Guides to Microforms

GENERAL GUIDES

• Microforms FAQ
• Visit Lexis-Nexis' UPA online guide to microform collections (IU login required).
• Scholarly Resources Inc. Online Guides
• You can often find a guide in the Microforms Reference section under the same call number as the microform.

HISTORY

• Draper Manuscript Collection: "The collection as a whole covers primarily the period between the French and Indian War and the War of 1812 (ca. 1755-1815). The geographic concentration is on what Draper and his contemporaries called the 'Trans-Allegheny West,' which included the western Carolinas and Virginia, some portions of Georgia and Alabama, the entire Ohio River valley, and parts of the Mississippi River Valley. For complete distribution, see State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Some reels of the Draper Collection are also owned at the James H. Kellar Library, Glenn Black Laboratory."
• Manuscripta: microfilms of rare and out-of-print books from the Vatican. Ask ET2 Staff for assistance.
• Papers of the NAACP: Print guides to this archive of NAACP records are available (Microforms Reference: E185.61 .P274 - E185.61 .P274327)

LITERATURE

• Early English Books (Also available online).
  • Pollard and Redgrave, 1475-1640: LC Microfilm: Z2002 .P7 (Guide available)
  • Wing, 1641-1700: LC Microfilm: Z2002 .W7 (Guide available)
• The Opie Collection of Children's Literature: "Chiefly British children's books, from the earliest period to the present, collected by Iona and Peter Opie, and housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University." LC Micofiche:PZ5 .O653 1991 (Guide available)
• Yiddish Books from the Harvard College Library contains the full text of 2,601 works in Yiddish on microfiche. Some works are in translation from other languages.

NATURAL SCIENCE

• Landmarks of Science

NEWS AND NEWSPAPERS

• Newspapers of the American Revolution
• Indiana Newspapers
• • Indiana Newspaper Bibliography: Microforms Reference: Z6952.I5 M54 1982
• Black Newspapers
• Television News Programs
• Foriegn News(WNC/FBIS/JPRS)

SOCIAL SCIENCE

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Human Relations Area Files
  • Nature and the Use of the HRAF Files: A Research and Teaching Guide, Microforms Reference:GN33 .L27
  • Outline of Cultural Materials (Also, Microforms Reference: GN345.3 .O95 2000)

STATISTICS

• U.s. Census of Population
  • The Census Book, Microforms Reference: HA37.U55 D65 2000. Includes a supplementary CD-ROM. You may also want to use our access to Ancestry Librray Edition. An IU login is required.
  • Federal Population Census, Catalog of the National Archives, 1790-1930, Microforms Reference: HA201 .U48 Catalog