ArchiveGrid in the News
From Internet Genealogy, April/May 2006, "Prospecting for Gold? ArchiveGrid Finds the Nuggets", by Martha Brogan:
Whether you are searching for your ancestor's California gold rush diary, John James Audubon's correspondence, a 16th-century Dutch cookbook or the records of Jewish relief agencies, ArchiveGrid unlocks the riches of hundreds of archives, libraries and museums in the US and around the world....Redesigned in consultation with historians and genealogists, ArchiveGrid boasts almost one million collection descriptions and online archival finding aids, making it an excellent starting point for adding historical context, documentary evidence or narrative content to your family history.
From The Patent Librarian, March 15, 2006, "New Archive Search Tool May Reveal Lost U.S. Patents," by Michael White:
Librarians and historians know that researching early U.S. patents is often a frustrating exercise that ends in disappointment....Fortunately, patent researchers now have access (until May 31) to a powerful new tool that may help them identify copies of lost pre-1836 U.S. patents located in archives, museums and libraries around the world. ArchiveGrid, an initiative of RLG, contains collection descriptions of nearly a million historical documents, personal papers and family histories from thousands of institutions. In effect, ArchiveGrid is a union catalogue of archival collections.
From ResearchBuzz, March 9, 2006, "Most Excellent! It's an Archive Grid," by Tara Calishain:
[RLG] has started an excellent site called ArchiveGrid, to aggregate information about collections in archives, museums, etc.....I really like this idea, and I like the search.
From ResourceShelf, March 7, 2006, "ArchiveGrid is Now Live and Ready For Searching," by Gary Price:
During the past several months we've mentioned a few times that RLG's ArchiveGrid database was coming soon. Well, the service is now live. Access to this large database of archive collection info is free through the end of May.
From The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus blog, March 6, 2006, "Indexing Scholarly Materials":
Even in an era of search engines and digitization projects, scholarly ephemera can be tough to locate. Armed only with Google, how quickly could a researcher track down magazines from the Dada movement? How many authentic treatises on alchemy could be found? A new online database called ArchiveGrid aims to make digging for that kind of material quicker and more fruitful. The service collects detailed data on the holdings of thousands of libraries, museums, and other archives and makes the information searchable online.
From Hangingtogether.org, March 6, 2006, "ArchiveGrid.org - the boon of my existence":
ArchiveGrid.org is a service designed and developed by RLG to help serve the needs of researchers – writ large - and also to help all those archivists out there to promote access to the truly remarkable collections they have acquired and preserved over time.
From Upstate NY Genealogy Notes, March 4, 2006, "ArchiveGrid.org":
For those of you that have ever spent hours and hours thumbing through the old printed indexes of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) at your local University Library, or have ever had access to the old Research Librarians Information Network (RLIN), or have used the modern equivalent RLG.org, you will be THRILLED with this new resource!
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