Microforms

Online Guides and Finding Aids for Major Microform Collections

• British Sessional Papers in Microform at Alderman Library: a Finding Aid.
  
  
• Early English Newspapers (Micfilm N GB-9)
  
  The best guide to consult for reel numbers listed by title and dates is the gray looseleaf binder labeled N-GB-9, located in the Microforms Guides area on the side facing the reader/printers.
  
  Lacking specific reel by date information, still useful, with publisher information included is the online guide from Primary Source Microfilm. To search this guide, follow these steps: From the Collection Title drop-down menu select Early English Newspapers. In the Full Text box enter a keyword or subject term. Or, select one of the additional search options. Scroll down to bottom of page and click Search.
  
  
• History of Women (Micfilm 2159)
  
  From the Primary Source Microfilm Collection Title drop-down menu select History of Women. In the Full Text box enter a keyword or subject term. Or, select one of the additional search options. Scroll down to bottom of page and click Search.
  
  
• Papers of the NAACP (Micfilm 1568)
  Pdf guides from Lexis/Nexis.
  
  
• Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War (Micfilm 1705)
  Pdf guides from Lexis/Nexis.
  
  See also guide for using the microfilm set. Scroll down page to section that begins "Users of this microform set must know the following".
  
  
• Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries (Micfilm 5727)
  Pdf guides from Lexis/Nexis.
  
  
• Survey Reports of the Virginia Colonial Records Project
  
  From the Library of Virginia, an index to nearly 15,000 reports that survey and describe documents relating to colonial Virginia history that are housed in repositories in Great Britain and other European countries. The survey report images are available online, and there are references to microfilm reels for the original documents.