FINDING BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS & IMAGES

Guide to Research Tools Begin here when starting research in the Beinecke Library. Contains an overview of the Library's online catalogs -- Orbis and the Yale University Library's Finding Aid Database -- as well as specialized databases including the Beinecke Digital Images database. Links to other pages describing advanced searching options for online catalogs and published catalogs of collections. Orbis (Yale's Online Catalogue) Orbis is the principal online public access catalog (OPAC) for Yale University, containing records for over 10 million items, including most of the Beinecke's printed holdings and many of the manuscript and archival holdings. Database of Archival Collections and Manuscripts Link to finding aids (inventories or lists) for large archival and manuscript collections and catalog records for some manuscripts (including cataloged Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts) in the Beinecke Library through the Yale Library Finding Aid Database . Uncataloged Acquisitions Find records with brief information for material that has been acquired by the Beinecke Library but not cataloged in other online catalogs. In general these uncataloged materials were acquired after 1985 although the database includes some earlier acquisitions. Digital Images Online Search this database of approximately 90,000 images of a wide range of materials from the Beinecke Collections: photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, artwork, objects, and illustrations and selected pages from printed works as well as scanned slides of Marinetti's Libroni on Furturism. Special Collections: Additional Resources Identify other catalogs that describe collections not represented, or described in less detail, in other catalogs. Published catalogs are described separately.