Week 2

Primary and Secondary Sources

 

 

 

Primary Sources  

•A primary source is an original object or document, first-hand information.

•Primary source is material written or produced in the time period that you may be investigating.

•Primary sources enable the researcher to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Primary Source Include:

 

- Diaries

- Letters
-journals
-speeches
-manuscripts
-statistical data
-interviews
-photographs
-audio or video recordings
-research reports
 

What is a Secondary Source?

• A secondary source is something written about a primary source.

• Secondary sources are written "after the fact" - that is, at a later date.

• Usually the author of a secondary source will have studied the primary sources of an historical period or event and will then interpret the "evidence" found in these sources.

• You can think of secondary sources as second-hand information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What's in a library?

A building or room containing collections of books, periodicals, and sometimes films and recorded music for people to read, borrow, or a collection of books and periodicals held in such a building or room.

 

Library Services

Library services :-

Book lending

Reading room

Printing

Photocopy

Information search

Current awareness service

E-journals

Multimedia collection

 

 

 

Encyclopedia

An encyclopedia is a systematic summary of the knowledge. It is a work containing information on all subjects or limited to a special field or subject, arranged in systematic (usually alphabetical) order.

General Encyclopedia

ü Encyclopaedia Britannica

ü Encyclopaedia Americana

ü Chambers's Encylopaedia

ü Funk and Wagnalls New Encyclopaedia

ü Collier's Encyclopaedia

ü Oxford Junior Encyclopaedia