Hint: This guide lists some useful resources and search strategies to use for your research essay.
Hint: This guide lists some useful resources and search strategies to use for your research essay.
Search the library catalogue for the name of a key individual (last name, first name) or organization as an author in order to find relevant primary sources.
Terms to designate primary sources:
sources, memoirs, photographs and posters photographs, posters, newspaper ads and stories, oral histories, pamphlets, anecdotes, diaries, pictorial works, archives, documentary, films, portraits, audio recordings, autobiography, cartoons, interviews, songs, manuscripts, catalogs, maps, speeches, notebooks, statistics, correspondence, personal narratives, and more....
Use the advanced search option to build search statements that may include names, events or topics combined with terms to designate primary sources.
You can also conduct a simple subject or keyword anywhere search using the AND operator to combine your different search terms and increase the likelihood that you will find relevant materials.
Using a Keyword Anywhere will generally you more but less focused results than a subject search.
For more general search strategies go to:
http://content.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/reference/ilu/
Hint: Select History by Topic or History-General
Use the Table of Contents to navigate through the different types of research materials.
For additional search strategies on how to find primary sources in the U of T Scarborough Library go to http://content.library.utoronto.ca/utsc/generalinformation/howtofindprimarysources
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