Search OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials)
The Library of Congress provides a gateway for searching OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials) -- nearly 1.5 million catalog records describing
archival and manuscript collections and individual manuscripts in public, college and university,
and special libraries located throughout
North America
and around
the world. Access to this gateway is made available courtesy of OCLC,
Inc.
Four Search Forms for the OCLC Manuscript Materials
1. Simple
Search Form (word list) -- titles, notes, and subject fields
2. Simple
Search Form (word list) -- all names fields
3. Simple
Search Form (left-anchored phrase) -- all names fields
4. Advanced
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What a Catalog Search
Will Retrieve
The Library of Congress only provides searching access
to the following materials in OCLC WorldCat:
archival and manuscript collections; mixed materials (i.e.,
collections that contain two or more different types of
bibliographic materials); and bibliographic materials that
have been described using archival descriptive rules. The
Library does not provide "free" access to search
books or other types of material in OCLC WorldCat.
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Current Search Gateway Limitations
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(after the initial
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