Find my historical event - this is the one where they use the Readers' Guide to find articles about their historical event in contemporary magazines and newspapers. I pointed a student today (her event was from 1919) to the New York Times historical online and to the Readers' Guide and said she could also browse the microfilm of the other papers we have going back that far, since there are not indexes to them that are that old. I also told her about the key in the front cover to the abbreviations used in the Readers' Guide.
Another student asked me if the checkmarks by the titles in the front of each volume meant that our library had the title. I said that made sense, but, if that was the case, then that was probably done a long time ago and might not be 100% accurate for our collection now.
I should have also mentioned our primary sources page, specifically American Memory, as another place to find information, but...I didn't think of it until now.
Please post comments if there are other places I should tell students to look!
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Huh - if the data happens to fall between 1900 and 1910 they're in luck - the Library of Congress just unveiled a new project to digitize papers from this decade - Chronicling America. But frustratingly, it's limited to those ten years.
Your interpretation of the check marks in the Readers Guide makes sense - I've been joking with students that someone in a previous year must have had the same topic and left a path for others to follow... I always like this assignment. There's something very satisfying about the Readers Guide
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