Are all Newberry materials listed in the online and card catalogs?
There have always been Newberry materials that are not in the catalogs. For instance, genealogical card files, like the city directory file and the vertical file, were always separate from the main card catalog. In the past few years, these card files have been converted to online lists found at the Genealogy’s About the Collections page. Modern manuscript collections also have been under-represented in the Newberry card catalog, traditionally being represented by paper finding guides. In the 1940s the Newberry Library began to collect modern manuscripts documenting the history and culture of the Midwest. These holdings now number 500 separate manuscript collections. There are collection-level catalog records for a number of these manuscript collections, including Ayer, Wing and Midwest manuscripts, in the online catalog. In the Fall 2003, the Newberry was awarded an NEH grant, “Voices of the Prairie, Preserving and Enhancing Access to Midwest Manuscript Collections,” to process and ca
