The term papers refers to: 1. A collection. - 2. A collection of personal or family documents; personal papers. - 3. Government · Records indicating an individual's identity or status.
Typically, archival records refer: materials being described consist of three or more forms of documents created, assembled, accumulated, and/or maintained and used by a government agency or private organization such as a business or club.
A collection is 1. A group of materials with some unifying characteristic. - 2. Materials assembled by a person, organization, or repository from a variety of sources; an artificial collection.
When searching the library catalog using besure to limit results to the DeGolyer Library. There are now over 200 different collections found in the Archives of Women of the Southwest. If you want your search to return all of the records, type the string "Archives of Women in the Southwest" into the library's search bar.