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Examples of finding aids include published and unpublished inventories, container and folder lists, card catalogs, calendars, indexes, registers, and institutional guides. Formal publications that help a user find information regarding a record group, collection, or series of archival materials are also finding aids.

The National Archives permits registered users to order and download a reasonable number of documents for free and has set a maximum order limit of 100 documents in a 30-day period.

The National Archives holds historical U.S. government documents (federal, congressional, and presidential records) that are created or received by the President and his staff, by Congress, by employees of Federal government agencies, and by the Federal courts in the course of their official duties.

The National Archives Building is home to more than three billion records in total, including the three most important documents in American history: the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These can be viewed in the building's Rotunda for the Charters of Freedom.

NARA's Electronic Records custodial program accessions, preserves, and provides access to U.S. Federal Government electronic ("born-digital") records of permanent value. By these activities, NARA enables researchers to gain access to federal records created for use with computer applications.

Simply put, a library collection has a catalog, and an archival collection has a finding aid. A catalog lists each item or group of items in a repository one after the other. Search for a person's name, and you can click through each online record (or flip through each card) for things by that person.

An archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources. The National Archives is the U.S. Government's collection of documents that records important events in American history.