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HIST 301: The Historians Craft (Dressler, Fall 2024)
Problem with Primary Sources
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HIST 301: The Historians Craft (Dressler, Fall 2024)
Introduction
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What IS a History Librarian?
The Problem with Primary Sources
Quick Refresher
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How do we have so many Resources?
Libraries Undergraduate Library Research Awards
Reference (Tertiary) Sources
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Finding Encyclopedias
Finding Historiographic Essays
Historical Statistics
Secondary Sources
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What is Peer Review?
Finding Books
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Worldcat: Accessing books we don't own
Finding Books via Reviews
Finding Articles
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How to order articles we don't own?
Searching: And OR NOT
Writing out your topic in Boolean (Important!)
Primary Source Databases
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Using WorldCat to find Primary Sources
Using the Catalog to find Primary Sources
Using Indexes to find Primary Sources
Searching Primary Source Databases
Primary Sources try some keyword searches
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Activity: Which words to use, and where to start?
Writing out your topic in Boolean
Citation
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Zotero
Stuck or need help? No problem!
Using Microfilm
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