AICPA Library can help members locate information quickly, easily.

As part of its mission to provide access to its accounting collections, the AICPA Library Service has a digitizing program called the Digital Accounting Collection (DAC). More than 300 non-current AICPA exposure drafts from 1977 are now posted, with more to come. The full text of the Accounting Historians Journal, 1974-1992, the full text of over 100 accounting pamphlets ranging in date from 1888 to 1923, and dozens of photographs and illustrations also are available. Browse the Billie Ireland cartoon sketches from the 1906 AAPA Convention on the "Photographs and Illustrations" page. Perhaps you have an ancestor who was an accountant; search the 1920 Accountants Directory and Who's Who. Read about the new accounting system (with illustrations) at the St. Paul Hotel in 1912. There are many other full-text pamphlets to interest all with an historical bent.

The AICPA Library collection at the University of Mississippi also houses tens of thousands of pamphlets, spanning a century of accounting. In addition, the Library is entering bibliographic citations for thousands of others into the Digital Accounting Collection, so the entire pamphlet collection will be accessible. Over 11,000 citations already have been entered, with many more being added daily.

Search the entire DAC database by keyword, author and/or title. The Web page allows users to search just the University of Mississippi Library catalog (where the AICPA books and journals are located), just the DAC (for pamphlets and old exposure drafts), or both at once using the "Quick Search" box. Visit the Library at:

[website] www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/aicpa/