PDF Files
Currently the finding aids are available as pdf documents only. Adobe PDF is the global standard which allows web site visitors to view, print, and search documents online. The Eisenhower Web site utilizes pdf files to provide visitors with a uniform distribution of documents and forms so they may be viewed as closely to the original presentation as possible. All finding aids are available in PDF format and may be viewed either in your browser with Adobe's Acrobat plug-in, or downloaded and viewed with Adobe's Acrobat Reader.
This link to the Adobe web site is available should you need to install this program.
Finding Aids
Note: Finding Aids will open new browser window leaving index window open in background.
Finding aids vary considerably in size and detail. Some consist of un annotated container (folder title) lists; but the container lists for most have extensive annotations following each folder title, indicating the subjects documented by the folder. Some finding aids also have scope and content notes which give an overview of the collection. In the future, as more staff time becomes available for descriptive projects, finding aids will be refined, and in time a comprehensive listing for the entire collection will be prepared.
Finding aids to Library collections, are available to researchers through interlibrary loan. In requesting finding aids please identify the desired finding aids by title and series.
Because of the complexity of archival research, scholars should be cautious about attempting to conduct research off-site by relying on keyword searches. Researchers devising a preliminary search strategy will need to consider the functions of offices and individuals, the types of documents most likely to meet their needs, and the time frame of the event or issue they are researching.
Keyword subject searches can be useful for identifying some of the files critical to a researcher's subject, particularly if the files were originally created as subject files or in such instances when the Eisenhower Library staff has provided subject annotations following folder titles (such annotations are enclosed in brackets []).
However, many folders have broad subject titles (e.g. "Asia"), that relate to categories of documents or official functions (e.g. "Press Conference Transcripts"), that have chronological headings (e.g. "Correspondence, March 1955") or bear the name of individuals (e.g. "Douglas Dillon") are more difficult to approach via straight forward keyword searching.
Subject Guides
These topical guides are intended to facilitate research in the Eisenhower Library’s holdings. The guides are intended to supplement but not replace the finding aids currently available for the Library's collections. Because of the widely scattered nature of documentation, it should not be considered absolutely definitive and pertinent materials may be found in locations not listed. Collections listed herein are fully processed and available for research unless indicated otherwise.
InterLibrary Loans
Requests for finding aids or oral history interview transcripts through interlibrary loan should be directed to:
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Center
Attn: Interlibrary Loan Service
200 Southeast Fourth Street
Abilene, Kansas 67410
General facsimile number: 785-263-6718
E-mail address: eisenhower.library@nara.gov
Reproduction Orders
Please complete the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library Schedule of Fees for Reproduction Services form and mail your reproductions request to the Library.
This fee schedule is for electrostatic copies, photographs, video and sound recordings. Payment may be made in cash, U.S. postal money order, bank draft, or check, to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. Payment may also be made by VISA, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover (Novus). Remittances received from outside the U.S. must be made by international money orders payable in U.S. dollars or by VISA, MasterCard, American Express, or Discover (Novus).
