Tips for doing archival research (beehaw.org)

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I'm currently doing research to cover 50 years of history for a student union.

Most of the documentation comes from primary sources - minutes, photos, student newspapers. It's so many documents. 50 years is a long time it turns out.

I'm currently managing sources using Zotero and putting information down in Microsoft Word. I currently divide my sources by decade.

Do you have any tips from doing similar types of research?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Yes - I did scan some of the newspapers I wanted with microform. Unfortunately, the quality for the student newspapers rendered certain block of texts and pictures unreadable. It's still an invaluable resource!

For what I'm looking into, which is mostly primary documents, I thankfully don't need to worry too much about mistakes - I'm mostly worried about missing documentation (no meeting minutes, no student newspaper) and unreported events.

I just wanted to say thank you since I forgot to answer (I've been off socials for a bit)

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