Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website

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

Overview of HCI-PSAR section of the website

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American Swedish Historical Museum’s collections

Searching the collections of a single repository

American Swedish Historical Museum

Search capabilities

Limit a search, or narrow the results by:

Topic

Name (creator, other persons, or corporations/organizations)

Date

Place

American Swedish Historical Museum

Searching across repositories

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

Potential and limitations

PotentialPotential LimitationsLimitations

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

MARC record

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PDFEAD

History Affiliates Organization Directory

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

Faith CharltonProject Surveyor

Hidden Collections Initiative for Pennsylvania Small Archival Repositories

fcharlton@hsp.orghttp://www.hsp.org/hcipsar

Finding the Finding Aids: Navigating the PACSCL website