About the Project

ARIZONA RESOURCES

http://cip.lib.az.us/ - The Arizona Cultural Inventory Project provides access to more than 600 Arizona repositories that hold manuscripts, books, photographs, artifacts, and specimens. You’ll find basic directory information, including addresses, phone numbers, emails, and website. The CIP also includes descriptions of each repository’s mission and collections.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/west.html - Here can be found a list of Arizona cultural organizations, along with lists of other western United States and Canadian repositories.

SOUTHWESTERN AND REGIONAL RESOURCES

http://www.oac.cdlib.org - The Online Archive of California (OAC) is a digital information resource that facilitates and provides access to materials such as manuscripts, photographs, and works of art held in libraries, museums, archives, and other institutions across California.

http://www.cdpheritage.org/ - Colorado Digitization Project provides access to the visual and oral record of Colorado's history, culture, government and industry in full text and graphic content.

http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm - The Online Archive of New Mexico is a single, integrated source for searching and navigating finding aids to archival collections. These finding aids, usually called guides or inventories, contain descriptive information about archives and manuscript collections housed at research institutions in New Mexico.

http://taro.lib.utexas.edu/ - Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) is a project of the Texas Digital Library Alliance. Currently the site offers access to archival finding guides from several Texas institutions.

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVAL RESOURCES

http://www.unesco.org/webworld/portal_archives/pages/index.shtml - International archives: An international gateway to information for archivists and archives users.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html - A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar.

http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html - Ready 'Net Go! Archival Internet Resources: This service is an archival "meta index," or index of archival indexes. That is, from here we refer you to the major indexes, lists, and databases of archival resources. From them you can link to almost every archives and archival resource in the metaverse.

ENCODED ARCHIVAL DESCRIPTION INFORMATION

http://www.loc.gov/ead/ - Encoded Archival Description (EAD) Official Website

http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/ead/sitesann.html - EAD Sites Annotated : This page contains short write-ups from repositories that explain how they produce and publish finding aids that conform to EAD. This page is intended to connect you with institutions willing to share their experience.