Utilizing the Web & Primary Sources Chisa Uyeki LIBR 150: F06, Week 4
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Utilizing the Web &
Primary Sources
Chisa Uyeki
LIBR 150: F06, Week 4
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What’s in a domain
.gov, .mil, .us, or other country code (.uk)
= government sites
.edu = educational sites
.org = Nonprofit organizations
.com = commercial & everything
But unregulated
Evalution Criteria
Author or creator (check under About or Contact)
Date of creation/update
Footnotes, bibliography, references, or evidence
Active links (for additional info &/or reference)
Wiki-warning
Personal Pages
Personal names (Lbrown or samsmith)
after % or ~
Creator’s credentials or authority
Know what you’re looking at
Evaluation Resources
Consumer Report’s Webwatch
http://www.consumerwebwatch.org/
Google
alexa for traffic info http://alexa.com/
Trusted starting places
Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu/
Librarian’s Index to the internet
http://www.lii.org
Internet Public Library
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/
Searching the Web
Free vs. fee
Visible vs. Invisible web (more visible now)
Not searching whole web
tool’s
dbase
In-Class Exercise
Search tools
Search Engines
Spiders
1-stop
shopping
Less control
Often exclude Google
results
Full-text
& cache
Unevaluated
Subject Directories
Human
selection
Organized by subject
Some abstracts/desc.
Meta Searches
Databases
Mostly
invisible
Thru Library Web
Dynamically generated
(by you!)
DEFINITIONS
FORMATS
depends on the kind of
analysis being
conducted.
PRIMARY
SECONDARY TERTIARY
Sources that
contain raw,
original,
uninterrupted and
unevaluated
information.
Sources that digest,
analyze, evaluate and
interpret the
information contained
within primary
sources. They tend to
be argumentative.
Often newspapers,
weekly and
monthly-produced
magazines; letters,
diaries.
Often scholarly
periodicals and books. Often reference
(Professors like
books.
these.)
Sources that
compile, analyze,
and digest
secondary sources.
They tend to be
factual.
From: Diablo Valley College, Identifying Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Sources,
http://www.dvc.edu/library/libweb/primary_and_secondary_sources.htm
Primary vs. Secondary
What’s the difference?
Primary Sources:
Firsthand testimony or direct evidence
Contemporary accounts
Original documents
Secondary Sources:
A step removed from event or
phenomenon
Provide interpretation of primary sources
Information Cycle
Timeline of Information Creation
Thinking about Primary Sources
What are the primary materials of your
own life?
Primary Resources:
What are they?
Includes (but not limited to):
Addresses
Events
Pictorial works
Autobiographies
Eyewitness
Personal narratives
Correspondences
Interviews
Diaries
Letters
Speeches
Documents
Memoirs
Transcript
Evidence
Oral history
Where are they?
Sources for Primary Resources
Depends upon the format of the resource…
Start with background information
Library catalog
Archival Collections and Special Collections
Newspaper indexes or databases
Reference resources
Primary Resources Online
CSULA Library: What are Primary Sources?
http://www.calstatela.edu/library/bi/hyu3/pswhat.
htm
LA, Past, Present & Future
Historical Los Angeles Times
(and other databases)
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Archive
Resources
Evaluating Web Pages:
Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/G
uides/Internet/Evaluate.html)
Searching the Internet
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/G
uides/Internet/FindInfo.html)