Finding aids are descriptive tools such as guides, inventories, or catalogs, which are used to describe archival records and manuscript collections. Typically, a finding aid provides information about the creator, origin, scope, content, format, date range, and arrangement of the papers or records. Often, the finding aid includes a detailed container list that provides information about the folders or items in the collection. Most collections are described at the folder level, rather than at the item level. The findings aids for the Popular Culture and Performing arts collections are listed below.
- The Martin Harris Collection
- The Bob Hope Collection
- Ellas B. McDaniel (Bo Diddley) Collection
- The Bernard S. Parker WWI Sheet Music Collection
- The Belknap Theatre Broadside Collection
- The Belknap Cinema Posters Collection
- The John David Ridge Costume Design Collection
- The Belknap Playbill and Program Collection
- Suzy Covey Comic Book Collection
- African American Cinema
- Efrain Barradas Mexican and Cuban Film Poster Collection
- Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
- The Florida Music Collection
- Cal Yeomans Collection
- Preston Woods Scripts
- Lillian Schneider Bartell Playbill Collection