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Finding Your Way Through Finding Aids: Archives 101

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This guide provides an introduction to archives and archival description. Here, you will find information about how to read and interpret archival description in finding aids. 

This guide was adapted from Finding Your Way Through Finding Aids: Archives 101 by Dorothy Berry, Betts Coup, and Monique Lassere. 

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Want to know more about viewing, searching, and requesting from Harvard's finding aids? Check out the HOLLIS for Archival Discovery guide