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Microform Collections in Stauffer Library

NATIONAL INVENTORY OF DOCUMENTARY SOURCES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

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Description

The National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United Kingdom provides references to archival holdings in the UK and Ireland. Included in this comprehensive collection are finding aids, indexes, registers, and catalogues to thousands of manuscript collections in over 120 libraries and records offices, museums, and private collections. The listings are detailed down to the specific box or folder where available, and reproduce the finding aids created originally by the contributing archivists to their collections.

"Repositories contributing to the National Inventory of Documentary Sources are National Record offices; County, City and Borough Record Offices; National and Central Government Libraries; University and Polytechnic Libraries and Archive Centres; Public Libraries; Museums; Specialists Research Institutions; Owners and Private Papers."   -- from the University of Toronto Library description of the Collection

Microfiche Location and Call Number   Stauffer Library Microforms [no call number; fiche currently is stored in the lower three drawers of Microfilm Cabinet 14]

Guide/Index Location and Call Number   Stauffer Library Microforms, shelved on top of the microfiche cabinet

Collection Status   Partial (see note below)

Notes

  1. Queen's subscription to the National Inventory has been cancelled. However, with each microfiche unit, there is to be an updated guide which supersedes the old one.
  2. The index consists of a binder containing 2 sets of Microfiche (Name and Subject indexes), consisting of 28 and 9 fiches, respectively.
Last revised: 21 July 2006

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