Research at the Newberry
The Newberry Library actively collects and preserves books, manuscripts, maps, and other printed materials related to the history and culture of Western Europe and the Americas. The collections are open to researchers who are at least 16 years old or juniors in high school. Most of the Newberry’s materials are housed in a climate-controlled stacks facility adjacent to the main Library building, and materials do not “circulate,” or leave the building. For more information on conducting research at the Newberry Library, please visit the pages below.
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Collections, Catalogs, & Online Resources
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The Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes (1892)
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Case 5A 489 |
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Collections: Learn about the Newberry's rich collections.
- The Newberry Library's Online Catalog is the primary tool for identifying and locating resources relevant to your research. Books, maps, periodicals, and manuscripts are listed in this catalog. There are some materials that are not represented in the online catalog, some of which can be found using other online tools. For example, most of the Newberry's city directories are not in the online catalog. Instead, these are listed on our web site (www.newberry.org/genealogy/dirholdings.html).
The items represented in the Newberry's online catalog are also included in I-Share, the catalog for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI). They are also included in the free and subscription versions of OCLC's WorldCat.
- The Newberry Library holds an estimated 500,000 maps issued separately and in atlases and books. Not all of these cartographic resources are listed in the online catalog. More than 50,000 records for maps, atlases, and literature on the history of cartography are available through the Newberry Library Cartographic Catalog (NLCC).
- Manuscripts are also under-represented in the online catalog, having been traditionally described with paper finding aids and checklists. To explore the manuscript collections, please consult the online catalog and the Newberry's Manuscripts and Archives page. Some of the Newberry Library's modern manuscript collections (1700-present) are included in ArchiveGrid (available in the Newberry Library), in the free and subscription versions of WorldCat, and in the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC).
- Online Resources: Find out what kinds of online resources and databases are available at the Newberry.
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