3. “All information is available online” Small fraction of information in archives has been read 12% of the world’s books have been digitized by Google Books project 50% of films before 1940 have been lost In 1997, average age of URL was 44 days 80% of climate data is not computerized* -Robert Darnton, 4/17/11 http://chronicle.com/article/5-Myths-About-the-Information/127105/
6. Strategies for Searching Archives Browsing known collections Google [topic/type of material AND (digital collections) site:.edu] Searching in databases that contain finding aids
7. What You Need to Successfully Search Digital Collections Curiosity Patience Help*
-small window into another world-records of an individual or institution -personal papers of Susan Hoang-more broadly anything we find interesting or important enough to preserve and make available-explain about how things get put into archives, archives class (20 boxes of materials, categorize them into correspondence, letters)
-tiny fraction of information in archives have been read, much less digitized-output of government is inaccessible-12% of world's book have been digitized by Google Books but production continues to expand-50% of films before 1940 have disappeared-in 1997, average age of URL was 44 days-80% of climate data is not computerized*
What type of information do I get from looking at this image? What’s the context? What year, date? What can this tell me?
What type of information do I get from looking at this image? What’s the context? What year, date? What can this tell me?
