Electronic Highways
Accessing local history materials
Last November, the University Libraries launched a database that will make it even easier to do research with primary sources. The Finding Aids database contains guides to archival and manuscript collections housed in the Law Library, Music Library, Poetry Collection and University Archives.
Browsing the Finding Aids database, you can discover all kinds of unique materials housed at UB and nowhere else: photographs by Milton Rogovin in the Music Library, documents pertaining to Native American land claims in the Law Library, and information about Buffalo school desegregation in the University Archives, to name just a few.
In addition to explaining what finding aids are and how they work, the Finding Aids site has lots of information about the technology behind the new database, Encoded Archival Description.
The database currently houses more than 300 records and it’s still growing. Future plans involve including finding aids from other local repositories, like the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society. Check back often to discover more about the exciting collections available in our area.
—Karen Walton Morse, University Libraries
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