About this course
In this course, you’ll learn how to develop a plan for locating additional documents to add to your comprehensive edition or selected edition. You will learn how to search archives, auctions, databases, and other resources, and to build a plan to ensure that you locate as many documents as possible.
This course assumes you have taken the eLaboratories course Selecting Documents or already have an idea about the kinds of documents you want to include in your edition.
What you'll learn
- Build a lead list to guide your search
- Develop a plan to follow your leads and obtain new documents
- Understand how to use available resources to locate new documents
- Manage the process of adding new documents to your collection
Course Content
Guides
Contributors
Course Glossary
- Accession
The process of adding a new item to a collection.
- Archive
A collection of textual and non-textual artifacts in physical and/or digital form; records created or received by a person, family, or organization and preserved because of their continuing value. See also the definition provided by the Society of American Archivists: https://dictionary.archivists.org/entry/archives.html.
- Finding Aid
A description that provides contextual and structural information about an archival resource.