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The AHC is a great source for researching topics relating to our collecting areas of Wyoming and the American West, the mining and petroleum industries, U.S. politics and world affairs, conservation, journalism, transportation, and 20th century entertainment such as popular music, radio, television and film.
 UW Combined Catalog (AHC and UW Libraries)
| Unlike most archival repositories, the AHC has cataloged all of its unrestricted collections, and most of its restricted collections. Cataloging means providing basic information about the collection to our local catalog and the international catalog known as OCLC and available in WorldCat.org. Hence basic information about all of our collections can be found from anywhere in the world. |
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Our cataloging effort has been substantially assisted by grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
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However, cataloged collections exist in several levels of intellectual and physical control, of which researchers should be aware. Some collections are cataloged but not otherwise organized or described—in archival terms, they have no fuller finding aid. This can make some of these collections difficult to use, particularly from a distance; the alternative, though, would be that researchers would not know of the existence of the collection, and thus not be able to use it at all. Other collections have a range of arrangement and description. Some have rudimentary box or folder lists for only portions of the collection (this is due to the collections having arrived in several accessions). Some have basic box or folder lists for the entire collection. And some have been fully organized and described, with complete finding aids (some of these finding aids, in turn, are available on our web site). The catalog records for each collection will indicate the level or existence of lists or finding aids. f you have questions about the information you find on our catalog records, or about the level of intellectual or physical control of a particular collection, please contact our reference staff at ahcref@uwyo.edu or 307/766-3756.|
Prospector
- Prospector is a unified catalog of 23 academic, public, and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming.
WorldCat
- Worldcat is the largest library network in the world with more than a billion items from 10,000 libraries world-wide.
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