APA Materials at the Library of Congress

In 1966 APA entered into an agreement with the Library of Congress to manage and preserve a collection of the Association's records. Over a period of several years, more than 270,000 items from APA Central Office, Divisions, and State and Provincial Psychological Associations were transferred and processed by the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. While the time span covered is 1917-1985, the bulk of the records is concentrated in the period 1940-1980.

Finding Aids
Finding aids are guides to the materials held by an archives. They also may be called inventories, registers, or indexes. Finding aids help researchers understand the range and depth of a collection by providing detailed descriptions of the collection.