AICPA Library offers new services for members.

A new Web-based service is available from the AICPA Library Service at the University of Mississippi. As part of its mission to provide access to its accounting collections, the AICPA Library Service has begun a digitizing program called the Digital Accounting Collection.

More than 270 noncurrent exposure drafts published by the AICPA from 1977 through 2005 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 houses tens of thousands of pamphlets, spanning a century of accounting. About 100 of these have been scanned in full text. 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 10,000 citations have already been entered, with hundreds more being added daily.

The entire DAC database is searchable by keyword, author and/or title. The new 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 new "Quick Search" box. Visit by using the "AICPA Library" link from the AICPA home page or go directly to:

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