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Primary sources in undergraduate education: the who, what, why, and where
Charlotte Nunes, Mellon Fellow in Digital Scholarship
Department of Research and Digital Scholarship
Southwestern University
@CharlotteLNunes
www.charlottenunes.net
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Let’s start with a discussion about questions and answers.
Kostas Kiriakakis’ comic A Day at the Park
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The Digital Public Library of America
http://dp.la/
The DPLA is a great place to start your search for primary sources related to your research topic. It serves as a hub for digital collections at museums, university archives, and cultural heritage institutions nationwide.
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Who should work with primary sources?
• YOU!
• Primary sources lend themselves to inquiry-based learning.
• The Boyer Report and other expert sources recommend an emphasis on inquiry-based learning (constructing research questions; building research skills) in undergraduate education.
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What are primary sources?
• Primary vs. secondary sources
• Libraries vs. archives
• Plenty of overlap, grey areas, and interrelationships between these!
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Why should you incorporate primary sources in humanities research?• Primary sources provide an incomparable sense
of context.
• Analyzing selected digitized archival materials alongside course content allows you to contextualize course readings in terms of the literary/social/cultural/political networks that influenced the authors, communities, and movements about which you’re learning.
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Where can you find primary sources?
• The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la/)
• The DPLA brings together digital primary source collections from museums, archives, and cultural heritage institutions across the country.
• Therefore it’s a great starting point for digital archival exploration!
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Let’s conduct a basic keyword search at http://dp.la/.
• Using the search box to the left of the DPLA homepage, conduct keyword searches related to your research topic.
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Our keyword search “Black Power Movement” returned 104 results.
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Note that you can refine your search using the options to the left of the page.
• Refine your search by format, contributing institution, date, language, location, and/or subject.
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Click “View Object” under a given record to view the object and its complete metadata in the digital collection where it lives.
If we click “View Object” here for instance…
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We are directed to the complete record at the Brown Media Archive Newsfilm Database.
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Need some inspiration?
• The DPLA homepage has Exhibitions, Maps, and Timelines for you to explore. See items grouped by theme, location, and time period.