RESOURCES FOR HISTORY

BUFFS

Steven Browne

Anne Shaughnessy

April 4, 2012

Program goals:

• Describe the types of history resources available online

• Take guided tours of following resources: • Salem History • Ancestry Library Edition • Gale Virtual Reference Library • Chicago Tribune Historical • Daily Herald Archives • Encyclopedia of Chicago • Illinois Digital Archives • American Memory

Salem History

Salem History

• Electronic versions of print reference books published by Salem Press

• Covers American business, 20th century by decade, sports, music, prominent people, and significant documents

• Biographical search is available

• Material may be searched or browsed

• Entries can be printed, emailed or saved

General search: Prohibition

People search: Al Capone

Ancestry Library Edition

Ancestry Library Edition

• Library version of Ancestry.com

• Mostly for genealogists but many resources are useful for history buffs

• Some full text entries are available

• Can be used only in the Library

• Easiest ways to search are via the Card Catalog and through the category “Stories & Histories”

ALE: Card Catalog

ALE: Stories & Histories

Gale Virtual Reference Library History eBook Collection

GVRL History eBook Collection

Find articles in real reference books even when Library is closed!

Read on computer or download to mobile device.

Email it to yourself or print it.

Browse other articles in the reference book.

Examples of GVRL Titles

• Art and Humanities through the Ages • American Men and Women of Science • Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms • Americans at War • Colonial America Reference Library • Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict • Chernobyl • Encyclopedia of India • Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988)

• Search every issue from 1849 through 1988

• Good for world, national, and local history

• Social history – fashion, recipes, lifestyles, crime

• Narrow searches to articles, obituaries, classifieds, movie reviews, editorials, “photo standalone”….

• View the whole page and leaf through entire issues.

• Search for street addresses (example “2317 Foster” or “23** Foster”)

• Old fashioned spellings (“clew” and “altho”)

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1849-1988)

Daily Herald Archives

Daily Herald Archives

• Collection of Daily Herald newspaper issues from 1901-2007 (1.9 million pages)

• Search by keyword or date

• Browse single issue

• Not a perfect database; results often problematic

• Can only be used in the library

Daily Herald Archives Search: Kensington Center/Rauenhorst

Daily Herald search: Fickert, 1974

American Memory from the Library of Congress

American Memory

• http://memory.loc.gov/

• Access written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience.

• “List view” or “gallery view” available

American Memory

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Encyclopedia of Chicago

• http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/

• Full text of print edition of the landmark encyclopedia

• Content not in book – maps, articles

• Thousands of historical resources including illustrations, photographs, maps, videos.

• Both lengthy essays and short entries.

Encyclopedia of Chicago

Illinois Digital Archives (www.idaillinois.org/cdm)

Illinois Digital Archives

• Statewide digital archive of photographs, books, postcards, posters, and manuscripts

• All materials deal with history of some area in Illinois • Coordinated by the Illinois State Library • Started in 2000 • 85 libraries and cultural institutions from across Illinois

participate • Significant topics: Abraham Lincoln, World War I and II,

African-American history • Collections may be searched or browsed • Similar collections for other states and countries exist

online.

IDA: Mount Prospect collections

For further assistance

• Come to the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Library

• Call the Reference Desk at 847-590-4050

• Email the Reference Desk reference@mppl.org

• Make an appointment with a Reference Librarian

• Chat with a Reference Librarian (link is on the Research and Reference page of the Library website www.mppl.org/research