{"id":65,"date":"2025-11-26T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2026-08-03T16:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T20:10:07","slug":"find-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/find-access\/searching-online\/find-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Find Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about archival collections and how to find these materials online, in the Libraries, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/search\/spec\">Search Special Collections<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>BU ArchivesSpace<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archivesspace.bu.edu\/repositories\/9\">BU ArchivesSpace<\/a> provides descriptive Finding Aids for unique collections housed across Boston University Libraries. Access historical documents, primary sources, or work with our archivists to expand your research<\/p>\n<div class=\" bu-callout aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<h2>What is a Finding Aid?<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/finding-aids\/understanding\">Library of Congress,<\/a> a <strong>finding aid<\/strong>, also called a collection guide, is a description of an archival collection. Archival collections contain primary sources and other unique, original, or rare materials. The finding aid provides a hierarchical inventory of collection materials, as well as information about the origin of the collection.<\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<h2>BU Digital Library<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digitallibrary.bu.edu\/\">BU Digital Library<\/a>\u00a0provides access to locally digitized historical and cultural heritage items from archives and special collections across Boston University.<\/p>\n<h2>OpenBU<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.bu.edu\/home\">OpenBU<\/a>\u00a0is our institutional repository that provides access to BU\u2019s research and scholarship, including Theses and Dissertations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn about archival collections and how to find these materials online, in the Libraries, and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center. Search Special Collections BU ArchivesSpace BU ArchivesSpace provides descriptive Finding Aids for unique collections housed across Boston University Libraries. Access historical documents, primary sources, or work with our archivists to expand your research BU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1301,"featured_media":0,"parent":91,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4837,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/4837"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}