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Planning
Your Research:
We
strongly suggest that you make use of our Online
Catalog. The Online Catalog includes entries for all our
books and microfilms as well as all processed manuscript and photograph
collections, with links to finding aids when they exist.
In
addition, you may want to check out our Collection
Guides. These list maps, ephemera, oral histories, and
genealogical manuscript collections as well as finding aids for
manuscript and photograph collections. Please note that we
have more than 3,000 processed manuscript and photograph collections
and only about 700 finding aids; you will want to search the
Online Catalog as well as the Collection Guides.
If
you will be doing genealogical research, please check Genealogy
Research for tips and resources.
ORDER-AHEAD
SERVICE:
If you will be using the McIlvain Special Collections Reading Room
and know exactly what you want to use, you may ask ahead of time
to have the boxes pulled. E-mail your request, specifying
collection and box numbers, to special_collections@mdhs.org;
also let us know when you expect to arrive. Please give us
at least 24 hours' notice. If we have staff available, we
will have the items pulled and ready for you.
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