[Air-L] Archival Methods for Online Researchers

[Janet Salmons]

October is almost over, but I have one more bit to add to my newsletter about Archival Methods for Online Researchers (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z56x4). Tomorrow I'll interview Lara Szypszak, Reference Specialist in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress. The newsletter also includes video interviews with a former archivist from Cornell University and a current one from the Rockefeller Foundation. In these interviews we discuss what gets digitized and made accessible online, versus what kinds of records still need hands-on sifting if you want to study them. We discuss the ways digital materials are organized and indexed, the use of finding aids and other tools that can help you can find materials relevant to your study.

You will also find links to numerous open-access archives and articles about archival research. Whether you are engaged in the pre-digital past or recent events, academic, creative, or journalistic writing, archival research is useful. Plus it is fun to wander through the amazing stories and view art from around the world - beats doom scrolling.

I'll post the new interview on Monday, but you can see the (free) October newsletter here (https://tinyurl.com/5n8z56x4). Then it is onto the November focus on Originality in Academic Writing for Academic Writing Month! Subscribe to "When the Field is Online" free monthly newsletter http://tinyurl.com/qualnews.

Janet Salmons, PhD (She/her/hers)
www.salmons.blog
Unabhängie Forscherin, Free-Range Scholar and Creative
2024 Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Internet Studies
Boulder, Colorado USA
janet at salmons.blog