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Primary Research Online at the G.W. Blunt White Library

Explore the G.W. Blunt White Library's digital access projects offering catalog records, finding aids, and web presentations. Discover scholarly priorities, teaching with primary sources, and valuable resource discovery tools.

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Primary Research Online at the G.W. Blunt White Library

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  1. Primary Research Online at the G.W. Blunt White Library

  2. G.W. Blunt White Library • Digital Access Projects

  3. Records and Images • Access via: • Catalog records

  4. Catalog Records Online Catalog

  5. Records and Images • Access via: • Catalog records • Finding aids

  6. Finding Aids Manuscript Collection Registers

  7. Metadata: Presently created and stored in several Access tables. • Every entity has: • One entry in the main database which contains descriptive data • An entry for every image in an associated database

  8. Records and Images • Access via: • Catalog records • Finding aids • Web presentations

  9. Web Presentations

  10. G.W. Blunt White Library • Scholars’ Survey

  11. Survey Topics • Audience • Comfort with and willingness to use digital resources • Specific resources of interest • Resource discovery tools • Digital newspapers • Demographic databases

  12. Scholarly Priorities • Resource Discovery • Demographic Databases • Historical Newspapers

  13. Teaching with Digital Primary Sources

  14. Results • Comprehensiveness Rules • Ease of Use is Mandatory • Libraries Need to Explore New Search Methods

  15. Exploring Digital Resources http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/survey/survey.cfm http://schooner.mysticseaport.org

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