Notes

Additional readings, links to sources, copies of class slides and other information pertinent to class are listed on this page.

Week 1

How Libraries are Organized (slides) Library Organization: Sections (Research 101 tutorial) Library Classification Systems: Subject (Research 101 tutorial) How to Read Call Numbers (Oregon) What Historian's Write (slides) Characteristics of Scholarly Writing (slides) Databases & Records (slides) Searching (slides) Searching (Research 101 tutorial) Introduction to Primary Sources (slides) Newspapers (slides) Magazines (slides)

Week 2

Images (slides) Historical Photographs & Images Finding and Using Digital Images Movie Reviews American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States Reader's Guide Retrospective search example and results screen Commonweal review of Casablanca Time review of Casablanca New York Times search example New York Times review of Casablanca

Week 3

Letters & Diaries (slides) Letters on the Web Canadian Letters & Images Project Oral history (slides) In the First Person Rutgers Oral History Archives Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project Veterans History Project

Week 4

Government Documents (slides) Historic Government Publications from World War II Evaluating Web Pages (UC Berkeley) Subject Directories (UC Berkeley) Meta-Search Engines (UC Berkeley) Using Primary Sources on the Web

Week 5

Elizabeth's slides