Come learn about introductory techniques for locating, accessing, and analyzing historical documents. Our goal in this workshop is to provide participants with a preliminary skill set useful in the discovery, access, and analysis of primary source documents. Objectives of this workshop are to:

• Define and identify primary sources and “archival” material as well as a basic understanding of knowledge organization;
• Discern the relationship between primary sources and secondary sources;
• Recognize how archives can be a valuable resource for certain types of projects, and how archivists can be helpful research partners; and
• Understand the basic methodology of conducting research with primary sources.

Additionally, students and participants will have the opportunity to work directly with primary source material from  the Gottesman Libraries' Special Collections.

Presenter: Conrad Lochner, Special and Digital Collections Librarian

Where: 104b Russell 

Elevate Your Research builds upon the foundational series, Your Research Journey, by presenting valuable new topics, resources, and methodologies to make you an even stronger and highly proficient researcher. Held on Thursdays, 3-4pm, this series also invites deeper, collaborative work to strengthen academic research initiatives.

Poster Image: Gold, Sheila. Girls In the Classroom. N.p., 1957, from the Ziegfeld Collection of International Children's Art, Courtesy of Teachers College, Columbia University