Margaret Herrick Library Digital Collections (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) 

This digital collection contains a complete run of Academy Awards ceremony programs, posters, and rules books, as well as selected photographs and ephemera from the library's extensive holdings.

FIRST - Take a look MHL Digital Collections profile 

• Browse the digital collections instead searching for a specific topic (use MHL website or find descriptions and links in this guide).
• Examine the description of the collection to learn more about the topic and materials. Use this info to identify keywords or themes for your assignment (e.g., Janus Barfoed collection contains clippings and ephemera, lobby cards, press sheets, and photographs related to the films of more than 200 Western stars) 

Complete list of Margaret Herrick Library's Digital Collections  

• Academy of Arts & Sciences Documents 
  • Academy Awards Collection, Academy History Archive
• Industry Publications 
  • Spotlight on Lobby Cards, Spotlight on Movie Star Ephemera
• Industry Records & Documents
  • Motion Picture Association of America. Production Code Administration records
  • Spotlight on Casting Directories, Spotlight on Hollywood During World War II
• Personal Papers of Filmmakers, Actors and more: 
  • Alfred Hitchcock Papers, Mary Pickford Papers
  • Victor Fleming scrapbooks, Costume Designer Irene Scrapbooks

Building a search with MHL's Advanced Search 

• Target your Searches by Collection(s)
  • The default is to search all collections. Instead try limit searches to particular collections -  uncheck 'Select All Collections' and choose  collections that interest you the most
  • Be sure to limit your search result to the time period for your topic. Click on Search by Date under the advance search window and enter a start and end time. 

BOOLEAN OPERATORS:

• Use the dropdown menus instead of operators
• Under "Enter Search Term" use the following dropdown menu options on the right side
  • All the words (similar to AND) 
  • Any of the words (similar to OR)
  • Exact words (similar to Quotation Marks)
  • None of the words (similar to NOT)
• AVOID using Asterisk *