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Connexions Archive seeks a new home
2009-11-18
Connexions Information Sharing Services
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.

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The Case for Grassroots Archives
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2012
Connexions Information Sharing Services
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden historie...
Does Wikipedia Suck?
Weir, Rob
Article
2010
Inside Higher Ed
Students were told to pick a concept, theory, or individual central to their paper, read the matching Wikipedia entry, and assess how useful it is for their research.
Frequently Asked Questions about the Sources Subject Index
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1998
Sources
A careful choice of subject headings pays off in leading journalists to you when they need your expertise.
How to get the most out of your Sources Listing
Article
1998
Sources
You get out what you put in! Extra attention to the content of your listing can result in more calls, more media awareness and greater success. The number of calls you'll receive from the media direct...
An Intelligent Guide to Intelligent Research
A review of The Oxford Guide to Library Research, by Thomas Mann
Diemer, Ulli
Article
2000
Sources
Review of the Oxford Guide to Library Research, a first-rate guide to how to think about research and how to formulate strategies for answering research questions.
ipl2 Collection Policy (Internet Public Library)
Article
The ipl2 is an educational, research, and service laboratory; two of its major roles are educating students at graduate schools of information and providing library services to internet users.
Library of Congress Authorities
Database
Library of Congress
Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local...
The Oxford Guide to Library Research - Review
Article
1998
An excellent guide to doing research, explaining research methods and strategies and their strengths and weaknesses of. See review in Sources Select Resources.

Sources Bookshelf

Finding Answers
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Tudor, Dean
Book
1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
Going to the Sources
A Guide to Historical Research and Writing
Brundage, Anthony
Book
1989
The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Winchester, Simon
Book
2003
1000 Questions About Canada
Places, People, Things and Ideas. A Question-and-Answer Book on Canadian Facts and Culture.
Columbo, John Robert
Book
2001
The Oxford Guide to Family History
Hey, David
Book
1993
Shows how to trace family origins through the basics of research: where to begin, where to find records, how to decipher early styles of handwriting.
Sources.com
Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
Website
1977
Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students -- and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and ind...
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Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Website
1977
Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
Too Much To Know
Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age
Blair, Ann M.
Book
2010
A study of Latin reference works compiled in the Middle Ages and Renaissance when digests and compendia containing quotations, excerpts and precis of works of the canon were a popular source of knowle...
The Wiley Book of Business Quotations
Ehrlich, Henry
Book
1998
Largely drawn from the press and speeches of business leaders, these quotes are clever, topical, alarming and amusing, but not very familiar.


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