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

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

G.W. Blunt White Library

•Digital Access Projects

•Access via:

–Catalog records

Records and Images

Online Catalog

Catalog Records

•Access via:

–Catalog records

–Finding aids

Records and Images

Finding Aids

Manuscript Collection Registers

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

•Access via:

–Catalog records

–Finding aids

–Web presentations

Records and Images

Web Presentations

G.W. Blunt White Library

•Scholars’ Survey

Survey Topics

• Audience• Comfort with and willingness

to use digital resources• Specific resources of interest

– Resource discovery tools– Digital newspapers– Demographic databases

•Resource Discovery

•Demographic Databases

•Historical Newspapers

Scholarly Priorities

Teaching with Digital Primary Sources

Results

• Comprehensiveness Rules

• Ease of Use is Mandatory

• Libraries Need to Explore New Search Methods

Exploring Digital Resources

http://www.mysticseaport.org/library/survey/survey.cfm

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