The Center for Digital Initiatives is pleased to announce the release of our newly-designed website for finding aids (guides to personal papers, manuscript and archival collections):
Brown Archival & Manuscript Collections Online (BAMCO).
There are currently 48 finding aids on the site, ten of which include digital facsimiles of collection materials. There is one finding aid each for collections at the Orwig Music Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center, the remainder describing John Hay Library manuscript and archival collections. This new site replaces two earlier versions of the website. Additional finding aids will be added to BAMCO as they become available.
Individual finding aids on the BAMCO site have been linked from the library?s Collections A-Z site, and from the associated JOSIAH collection-level bibliographic records.
During the past year, library staff from several departments have contributed to the BAMCO effort (Digital Services, Scholarly Resources, Technical Services, Web Services) as well as a number of student workers and library school interns.
Future plans call for enhancing the site with additional features:

• browse, search, and ‘limit by’ features
• feedback button (to CDI re. functionality of the site and to report errors)
• repository links for collection queries (e-mail, location/hours information)
• essays on working with primary source material and finding aids

For more technical information, read ?About this project? (at bottom of the BAMCO homepage). I welcome questions or comments about the BAMCO website.
Sarah Shaw
Digital Initiatives Librarian (EAD Specialist)
Brown University Library
Box A Providence, RI 02912
TEL: 401 863-1508
FAX: 401 863-1272
sarah_shaw@brown.edu