Workshop: Understanding Primary Sources In-Person / Online
Come learn about introductory techniques for locating, accessing, and analyzing historical documents.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 / Online
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.
Presenter: Conrad Lochner, Special and Digital Collections Librarian
Where: 104b Russell / Online
Poster Image: Letter. Scott Rose, C. (Fair), & Hollobon, J. Your Achievements. 8th of January, 1969. From the Joan Hollobon Correspondence Collection. Courtesy of Teachers College, Columbia University.
To request disability-related accommodations, contact OASID at oasid@tc.edu, or 212-678-3689, (646) 755-3144 video phone, as soon as possible.
- Date:
- Thursday, March 27, 2025
- Time:
- 3:00pm - 4:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- RH 104B (Map )
- Audience:
- Categories:
- Workshop > Elevate Your Research Featured Workshop