by John P. Rees, Curator, NLM Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program reesj@mail.nlm.nih.gov

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/hmdfindaid.html

The Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program at the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine has released its new finding aids search and delivery platform, based on the University of Michigan’s DLXS software. http://oculus.nlm.nih.gov/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=nlmfindaid

Now users can search and browse the content of the 190+ existing Encoded Archival Description (EAD) collection guides. Plans are to soon add 300+ EADs describing all the manuscript holdings, many of which have never before been described beyond their catalog records.

Users can perform Basic and Advanced Boolean searches limited by:

Entire Finding Aid Content
Container List only
Names
Places
Subjects
Biographical/Historical Note
Any Scope and Content Note

These search features are available both across the entire set of finding aids and within each individual guide. Additional features include a Save to Bookbag option with an Email function.
Look for more DLXS content beyond EAD in the near future!

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