National Archives and Records Administration
The U.S. federal archives, as well as the agency in charge of preservation
and long term access to U.S. federal publications of lasting value.
National Historical Publications
and Records Commission
A government commission that coordinates and funds efforts for the preservation
and intellectual control of historical materials.
University of Notre
Dame Archives
The UND Archives has made most of its finding aids available on Internet.
Repositories
of Primary Sources
A list, maintained at the University
of Idaho, of over 1600 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives
and other primary source materials.
Washington University
Archives
The Berkeley Finding
Aids Project
A cooperative effort to develop standards for the use of electronic tools
in the control of archival materials.
The Harvard-Radcliffe Digital
Finding Aids Project
An effort similar to the Berkeley project, based on the east coast.
National Union Catalog of Manuscript
Collections
This site provides a description of a principal program for the cataloging
of primary source materials.
Reference
at Your Desk
A collection of valuable resources for archivists from the National
Archives Library.
RLIN AMC (Archives and
Manuscript Control) File
RLIN AMC provides access to hundreds of thousands of records of archival
and manuscript materials -- including all of the records in the National
Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections.
Use the search form provided here -- via the Library
of Congress Z39.50 Gateway -- to search this file for free.