This project seeks to change how the Library provides access to its manuscript and archival collections, and should radically alter how researchers at all levels think about, access, and use manuscript and other primary materials.

Many of the collections maintained by the Brown University Library are significant enough to warrant inclusion of digital facsimilies in the finding aid. For those collections (in accordance with copyright and other intellectual property limitations), links will be provided from the finding aid to a digital copy of a letter, photograph, or other object.