Guides to Microforms

Guides to the Contents of Microform Collections via the Web

Guides to Microforms brings Web searchability to the guides for 195 of the most popular microform collections from University Publications of America (UPA). Coverage will expand with some 50 more titles each year—including new titles, backlist titles, and widely-held titles from other microform publishers.

The innovative Guides to Microforms is a comprehensive system for researching non-print archival manuscripts in microform. It empowers researchers, so they can identify the primary sources they need more quickly, thoroughly, and precisely than ever before.

With Guides to Microforms, your library’s microform collections will be used more often by more researchers—from undergraduates to faculty and other scholars. The service enhances researchers’ ability to zero in on the documentary riches of many of the most valuable microform publications available in a variety of disciplines. Sharing of microform resources among libraries has never been easier.

By utilizing the popularity and connectivity of the World Wide Web, you can offer access to users throughout your academic community—right at their own computers as well as in the library.

Guides to Microforms guides users to hundreds of thousands of primary source documents in such fields as African American studies, southern history, political history, women’s studies, military history and war, immigration, labor studies, Native American studies, international relations, law and jurisprudence, and more.

Quickly search across many titles to get the full picture

By making the finding aids to microforms available on the Web, Guides to Microforms provides valuable new research capabilities:

• No more searching through multiple printed guides to find documents! Using keywords, you can search many different guides at once to identify relevant primary sources in more than one microform collection. Researchers get hits on titles they would never have thought of reviewing—or did not even know about. For example, you’ll find information on violence against civil rights workers in President John F. Kennedy’s Office Files, 1961–1963, in addition to more obvious sources such as Papers of the NAACP.
• Instantly broaden or narrow your search with Boolean operators. Group multiple subjects or time periods in a single search to pinpoint exactly what you need.
• Browse mode lets you scan through guides to get the big picture or help frame your research. As in the guide’s print edition, you can look at introductory material such as editorial notes and content summary… use the indexes to review the names of principal correspondents, cases cited, and subjects covered… or review the contents of specific reels within the guide.
• A notation tells users whether the library owns a specific microform title and directs them to the location within the library where it is available. (This feature becomes part of the service in late 1999.)
• Download and print sections of the guide, or paste excerpts into your own document.
• An intuitive interface that is simple enough for novices but offers the sophisticated features experts demand. Guides to Microforms gives students the opportunity to access research materials in a medium they know and love—the Web.

Guides to Microforms brings the wealth of material in scores of research collections to a wider audience in more locations than ever before. Because the service is Web-based, its use is not confined to a few work stations within a university’s library system. You can log on from virtually anywhere on campus.

Among the Titles available in Guides to Microforms are:

Part 1 Supplement: Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1961–1965

Part 3: The Campaign for Educational Equality

Series C: Legal Department and Central Office Files, 1951–1955

Series D: General Office Files, 1956–1965

Part 4 Supplement: The Voting Rights Campaign, 1956–1965

Part 13: The NAACP and Labor, 1940–1955

Series A: Subject Files on Labor Conditions and Employment Discrimination, 1940–1955

Series B: Cooperation with Organized Labor, 1940–1955

Series C: Legal Department Files on Labor, 1940–1955

Part 14: Race Relations in the International Arena, 1940–1955

Part 15: Segregation and Discrimination: Complaints and Responses, 1940–1955

Series A: Legal Department Files

Series B: Administrative Files

Part 16: Board of Directors, Correspondence and Committee Materials

Series A: 1919–1939

Series B: 1940–1955

Supplement, 1956–1965

Part 17: National Staff Files, 1940–1955

Part 18: Special Subjects, 1940–1955

Series A: Legal Department Files

Series B: General Office Files: Abolition of Government Agencies—Jews

Series C: General Office Files: Justice Department—White Supremacy

Part 19: Youth File

Series A: 1919–1939

Series B: 1940–1955, American Jewish Congress—Motion Picture Project

Series C: 1940–1955, NAACP—Youth Builders

Part 20: White Resistance and Reprisals, 1956–1965

Part 21: NAACP Relations with the Modern Civil Rights Movement

Part 22: Legal Department Administrative Files, 1956–1965

Part 23: Legal Department Case Files, 1956–1965

Series A: The South

Series B: The Northeast

Series C: The Mid- and Far West

Part 1: Records of the President’s Office

Part 2: Records of the Executive Director and Treasurer

Part 3: Records of the Public Relations Department

Part 4: Records of the Program Department

Part 1: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President’s Office Correspondence

Part 1: Minutes of National Conventions, Publications, and President's Office Correspondence

Part 2: President's Office Files, 1958–1968

Series A: Holdings of the Chicago Historical Society and the Newberry Library, 1925–1969

Part 1: Records of the BSCP, 1925–1969

Part 2: Records of the Ladies Auxiliary of the BSCP, 1931–1968

Part 3: Records of the BSCP Relations with the Pullman Company, 1925–1968

Series C: Selections from the Virginia Historical Society

Part 1: Mining and Smelting Industries

Part 2: Railroad and Canal Construction Industries and Other Trades and Industries

Series A: Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society

Series A: Subject Correspondence Files

Part 1: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1906–1913

Part 1 Supplement: Asian Immigration and Exclusion, 1898–1941

Part 2: Mexican Immigration, 1906–1930

Part 3: Ellis Island, 1900–1933

Part 4: European Investigations, 1898–1936

Part 5: Prostitution and "White Slavery," 1902–1933

Part 1: 1893–1924

Part 2: 1925–1955

Series A: Indian Delegations to Washington

Series B: Indian Customs and Social Relations

Map Room Conference and Special Files, 1942–1945

Map Room Army and Navy Messages, December 1941–1945

Map Room Military Subject Files, 1941–1945

Map Room Ground Operations Files, 1941–1945

Map Room Naval Operations Files, 1941–1945

Part 1: "Safe" and Confidential Files

Part 2: Diplomatic Correspondence

Part 3: Departmental Correspondence File

Part 4: Subject Files

Part 5: The John Franklin Carter Files on German Nazi Party Members

Part 1: Political File

Part 2: Correspondence File

Part 3: Subject File

Part 4: Korean War Files

Part 5: Truman Diaries and Handwritten Notes Files

Part 1: Eisenhower Administration Series

Part 2: International Series

Part 1: Special Correspondence, Speech, Legislative, and Press Conference Files

Part 2: Staff Memoranda File

Part 3: Departments and Agencies File

Part 4: Subjects File

Part 5: Countries File

Part I: White House Central and Confidential Files

Part II: White House Aides

Series A: Office Files of Marvin Watson

Part I: White House Central Files

Part II: Records of the President’s National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty, 1966–1967

Series I: Selections from Louisana State University

Part 4: Barrow, Bisland, Bowman, and Other Collections

Series J: Selections from the Southern Historical Collection

Part 6: Mississippi and Arkansas

Part 7: Alabama

Part 8: Tennessee and Kentucky

Part 9: Virginia

Part 10: Hubard Family Papers, 1741–1865

Part 11: Hairston and Wilson Families

Part 12: Tidewater and Coastal Plains North Carolina

Part 13: Piedmont North Carolina

Part 14: Western North Carolina

Series K: Selections from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library, the Shirley Plantation Collection, 1650–1888

Series L: Selections from the Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary

Part 1: Carter Papers, 1667–1862

Part 2: Jerdone Family Papers, 1736–1918

Part 3: Skipwith Family Papers, 1760–1977

Part 4: Austin-Twyman Papers, 1765–1865 and Charles Brown Papers, 1792–1888

Series M: Selections from the Virginia Historical Society

Part 1: Tayloe Family (1650–1870)

Part 2: Virginia's Northern Neck; also Maryland

Part 3: Other Tidewater Virginia

Part 4: Central Piedmont Virginia

Part 5: Southside Virginia

Part 6: Northern Virginia and Valley

Series A, Holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Part 1: Mary Susan Ker Papers, 1785–1923

Part 2: Roach and Eggleston Family Papers, 1830–1905

Part 3: Louisiana and Mississippi Collections

Part 4: The Nicholas Philip Trist Papers

Part 5: Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida

Part 6: Virginia

Part 7: Phillips and Spencer Family Collections

Part 8: North Carolina

Series B, Holdings of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library: The Carter Family Papers, 1888–1989

Series C, Holdings of the Earl Gregg Swem Library, The College of William and Mary in Virginia: Miscellaneous Collections, 1773–1938

Series D, Holdings of the Virginia Historical Society

Part 1: Tidewater, Virginia

Part 2: Richmond, Virginia

Part 3: Piedmont Virginia

Part 4: District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee

Part 1: Reports of the Director, Major Conferences, and Speeches and Articles

Part 2: Women in World War II

Series A: Unpublished Studies and Wartime Community Surveys

Series B: Subjects and Correspondence Files on War Industries

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–1969

Agency File

Committee File

Name and Speech File

Fifth Supplement

Sixth Supplement

Seventh Supplement

Second Supplement

Third Supplement