March 17, 2006
Database Allows Users to Search Data on Holdings of Libraries, Museums, and Other Archives
Even in an era of search engines and digitization projects, scholarly ephemera can be tough to locate. Armed only with Google, how quickly could a researcher track down magazines from the Dada movement? How many authentic treatises on alchemy could be found?
A new online database called ArchiveGrid (http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp) aims to make digging for that kind of material quicker and more fruitful. The service collects data on the holdings of thousands of libraries,
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