[LDS] DRSW--documentry realtions of Southwest---EXCELLENT

[richhart]

DRSW Master Index on web


    Documentary Relations of the Southwest (DRSW) in the Arizona
State Museum at the University of Arizona has now placed its Master
Bibliography and Index online.

    The Master Index is a finding aid for researchers using Spanish
colonial documents concerning northern New Spain from the 1500s
until the
1820s. It contains more than 17,000 records about what is now the
southwestern
United States and northern Mexico. In all, the Master Index
summarizes an
estimated 500,000 pages of colonial documents.
    Each record contains detailed information about a document or a
group of related documents in archives around the world. The
documents
summarized  come from a total of thirty-one archives in Europe and
the Americas.
Copies  of most of these documents are available on microfilm in
DRSW or
elsewhere  in Tucson.

    A link to the new, online searching is available from DRSW's
webpage:
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/drsw
    Just enter a search term, such as, "Sinaloa", and you will see a

list  of  all the records that contain that term (in this case,
there will be
762  matches). Click on a title, and your screen will display the
full
record.
You can select records to save, print, or email.
    We would appreciate your feedback about this new service -
especially  since we are still writing the "help" page. Also, please
do not
hesitate to  ask for help.

    In the future we plan to make at least four more databases
searchable  simultaneously with the Master Index: 1) the Biofile, a
collection of
19,000  biographical descriptions; Biodex and Biodex2, compilations
of index
entries  from secondary sources; and the SMRC Books & Articles, an
annotated
bibliography with about 14,000 items.
    We would like to thank the University of Arizona Libraries for
donating  staff time and expertise in putting these databases
online. In
particular,  Metadata Librarian Jeremy Frumkin has overseen this
process.

Happy hunting!
Tracy
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Tracy Duvall, Ph.D.
Documentary Relations of the Southwest
Arizona State Museum
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: (520)621-6280
fax: (520)621-2976


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