Course Notes and Links

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

• January 3
  • Introductory slides
• January 17
  • Databases and Records
• January 19
  • UW Libraries Catalog Searching Basics
• January 24
  • Topic selection
  • Topic worksheet
• January 26
  • Indexes
  • Databases for exercise
• February 5
  • Publication cycle
• February 7
  • Slides
• February 9
  • Introduction to Primary Sources
  • Additional examples
• February 12
  • Finding Primary Sources
• February 26
  • Slides from Info220A
  • List of Search Engines
• February 28
  • Web Evaluation
  • Domain names
  • Other web evaluation sites
    • Web Research Evaluation Checklist
    • Web Site Evaluation Checklist
    • Evaluation of Information Sources
    • Web Site Evaluation
    • Evaluating Web Pages
• March 2
  • Introduction to HTML
  • Barebones Guide to HTML
  • HTML Goodies

Illustration: "Unionist Scouting Party in the Virginian Woods in the Neighborhood of Alexandria." Illustrated London News, 13 June 1861. Courtesy of Civil War Images of Northern Virginia, George Mason University.