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Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website

Explore and search the American Swedish Historical Museum's collections on the PACSCL website. Learn about search capabilities, limitations, and potential across multiple repositories. Utilize various formats like HTML, PDF, and EAD for research purposes.

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Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website

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  1. Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/index.html

  2. Overview of HCI-PSAR section of the website

  3. American Swedish Historical Museum’s collections HTML version PDF version

  4. Searching the collections of a single repository

  5. American Swedish Historical Museum

  6. American Swedish Historical Museum Search capabilities Limit a search, or narrow the results by: Topic Name(creator, other persons, or corporations/organizations) Date Place

  7. Searching across repositories

  8. http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/index.html

  9. Potential and limitations

  10. Limitations Potential • Researchers can search collections held at nearly all Philadelphia-area archival repositories • 38 PACSCL members • Up to 150 small repositories • Searchable through Google (work in progress) • Searchable through Google (work in progress) • Sustainability for HCI-PSAR participants

  11. MARC record Web-ready HTML PDF EAD

  12. History Affiliates Organization Directory

  13. http://hsp.org/history-affiliates/public

  14. Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website Faith Charlton Project Surveyor Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories fcharlton@hsp.org http://www.hsp.org/hcipsar

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