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.   

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Brief Summary of the Finding Aids

Books | Manuscripts | Visual Items | Online Finding Aids   

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BOOKS 

• 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 

MANUSCRIPTS 

• 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 

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Online Finding Aids

Subjects |Master list of all collections | |At Firestone Library | At Mudd Library

 

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Subjects

 

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

Finding aids page

Manuscript Collections at Firestone Library

Revised on June 16, 1997// Sept 12, 1997 // 15 October 1997[SF]