Glee wrote: [snip] > Sharon: > > After your excellent post, I started snooping around on the internet > for information regarding the Library of American Civilization > Collection. Evidently, other libraries have the same problem with > the ultrafiche reader issue. There is at least one that has > provided links to which information is available online: > > http://invictus.quinnipiac.edu/lac.html > > I found information about a similar series, Early American Imprints: > Early American Imprints is similar to the Library of American > Civilization (LAC), a microbook collection that contains information > on American life and literature from the beginning to World War I. > However, Early American Imprints require no magnification and are > much easier to read due to the reformatting process. > > Series I. is a microfiche collection reproducing 42,000 early > American publications; virtually every existent book, pamphlet, and > broadside published in America from 1639 to 1800. The microfiche set > includes almanacs, bibles, charters and by-laws, cookbooks, maps, > printed music, novels, plays, poems, primers, sermons, speeches, > treaties, travelogues, and textbooks. > > <Makes me want to run to the library> > > These are indexed: > > Evans, Charles. American Bibliography. Volume 14 is the alphabetical > author/title index to the entries in volumes 1-13. > > Bristol, Roger P. Supplement to Evans American Bibliography, > including its Index and the Index of Printers, Publishers and > Booksellers. > > Shipton, Clifford Kenyon. National Index of American Imprints > through 1800, the Short Title Evans > > > There is a second series: 1801-1819. > > > If you have ancestors in the south, you might want to look at the > digitalized collection (Documenting the American South) of the > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love the diaries: > > http://docsouth.unc.edu/index.html > > Glee <gleemc@earthlink.net> My local *university* library has both the first series (to 1800) and the second series (to 1819) of _Early American Imprints_. The trouble with those series is that they are printed on opaque cards, so they don't work on normal micro readers. (The cards are also two or three times as big as standard fiche sheets.) This library has the good sense to place two microopaque readers in the same corner with the _Early American Imprints_ cards, and to catalog each book or pamphlet separately and give the _Early American Imprints_ reference number in the catalog entry so there's no need to consult the printed indices. Within the past two or three years they also had the first series transferred to fiche so that people could photocopy them. Ahhhhh, microcopy collections. <g> Austin W. Spencer "Austin W. Spencer" <AustinWSpencer@cox.net>