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Designed to provide researchers with "comprehensive and current coverage" of a wide variety of ethnic resources from museums, libraries, and archives, this guide was compiled, we are told in the introduction, from the results of a "comprehensive national survey" of such institutions. The compilers relied on questionnaires sent out between 1993 and 1995. The resulting bibliography contains entries for 786 institutions, arranged in 68 subject categories, most being specific ethnic groups. Entries provide the name, address, phone and FAX number, staff size, and the name of a contact person for the particular repository. A description of the repository's collections and services then follows. Not recalling receiving a questionnaire, this reviewer was surprised to find the Northwest Minnesota Historical Center listed. The entry is reasonably accurate but contains errors concerning our budget and collections. The center does not contain resources concerning the "Hispanics . . . who settled" the Red R...Log In or Sign Up to Read More