Library News - History Dept.January 2004Contents: |
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All of the academic departments on campus are currently working with their library liaisons to discuss the library serials review project and to make decisions about our serials holdings. I will update you as information is made available as to which journals, standing orders, and databases have been identified for cancellation. In the meantime, all of the history-specific information that I've distributed at our meeting and via email is available at this website. For those of you who are interested in what is being done by academic libraries and higher education as a whole about escalating costs, the library has put together a brief bibliography of readings, many of which are available online, that may be of interest.
During the fall semester I significantly rewrote the library's research guide for history, as well as adding a new guide specifically focused on locating primary sources.
The general history guide covers all sources except primary sources, and includes books; journal articles; guides to historical research and writing; biographical, geographical, and statistical sources; book reviews; encyclopedias and directories; government publications; other libraries and collections; and selected Internet sites. The primary sources guide focuses on strategies for locating primary sources: published, online, and in libraries and collections in the Bay Area (and worldwide). This guide includes a specific section on locating historic newspapers and magazines, with detailed information on some of the major holdings (as well as their indexes) here at SFSU.
If you have any suggestions or comments for these guides, please contact me. I'd like to make the research guides as useful as possible, and your feedback will help in that effort.
History Guide: Searching for primary source collections online? Scouring the Web led me to this site, an annotated directory of websites related to history, that allows you to search collections of primary source material online (among other types of websites).
To browse the listings of primary sources:
To search primary source collections:
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Library of American Civilization Titles Available Free on the Web: An index to those titles in the LAC ultrafiche collection (which we have in our library in the microforms area, and which is notoriously hard to use) freely available on the Web. Last updated in 2002; organized alphabetically by author.
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories: The newest online collection from the American Memory Project (Library of Congress). The collection consists of audio files of interviews, conducted between 1932-1975, with twenty-three former slaves.
This page last updated January 23, 2004.