Dorothea Buckingham will teach you:

  • How to use basic search engines like Google to trace referrences and images. Mine "crowd sourced" databases like Wikipedia to find authoratative sources.

  • How to search megadatabases like the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian and the National Archives and apply these tecniques to other large databases.

  • How to find "boutique" databases that will better serve your particular research needs.

  • And share with you tips and tricks of the librarian's tool box to make life easier for you.

Simple. Common sense. Step-by-step.

  • We'll start with basic research strategies, move on to advanced techniques and apply them to different types of databases.

  • We'll begin my using Google and Wikipedia to mine them for authoratative resources for print, audio and visual sources.

  • We will apply basic research strategies to megadatabases like Library of Congress, the Smithsonian, and the National Archives.

  • We'll move on to "boutique"" databases and uncover some very interesting gems.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome

    2. Google is your big research tip!

    3. What do you already know?

    4. Yup, we're starting with Google!

    5. Let's narrow down those 427,000,000 Google hits

    6. Let's look at the basic Wikipedia entry on David Douglas

    7. Citations and References on Wikipedia

    8. Heads up to save image on Wikipedia

    9. Image Search using Google

    10. Rights to use an image.

    11. Duke University Library: Copyright and Fair Use

    12. A few sources for historical images.

    13. National Archives Digitized Images

    14. Let's recap.

    15. Library of Congress, Arizonal Historical Society

    16. Maps.

    17. The Shame of it!

    18. University of Virginia Miller Center

    19. Let's go to the movies!

    20. Newspapers: How to find them and use them

    21. Look Beyond the Headlines

    22. Is My Prom Date Dead?

    23. Let's Recap

About this course

  • Free
  • 23 lessons

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