What is a Finding Aid













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This video is a deep dive into understanding Archival Finding Aids, or the documents created to describe archival collections. • It is often the work of the archivist to create a sort of roadmap to help a researcher navigate through boxes and boxes of individual letters, documents, photographs and other diverse types of materials. • Finding Aids explain to researchers what materials are in collections and where researchers can find what they are looking for. • Contents: • 0:00 What is a Finding Aid? • 0:18 Understanding archival collections • 4:20 Understanding Finding Aids • 5:01 Finding Aids: Front Matter • 10:31 Finding Aids: Inventories • 13:20 Requesting archival material

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