HIST 300: Maps

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HIST 300 Maps

• Tamara Smith, Reference Librarian
• Langsdale Library
• tsmith_at_ubalt.edu
• 410-837-5072

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Plan for Today

• Review Search Strategy
• Scholarly vs. Popular
• Primary vs. Secondary
• Maps
• Wrap-up

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Review Search Strategy

• If your topic is too broad, add another concept
  (AND)
• If your topic is too narrow, add synonyms and
  related terms (OR)
• Different databases different results (try more
  than one)
• Scholarly vs. popular articles

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Getting to the Full Text

• Do we own it?
• Find It button
• Journal Finder
• If we dont own it, use ILL

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Scholarly vs. Popular
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Scholarly vs. Popular

• Scholarly
• Quarterly, bi-monthly, semi-annual
• Empirical studies/research articles
• Longer articles
• Written by scholars or researchers
• Signed (contact info included)
• Writing style is academic technical (jargon)
• Includes references/bibliography/footnotes

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Scholarly vs. Popular

• Popular
• Monthly, bi-weekly, weekly, daily
• News current events on a topic
• Shorter articles
• Written by journalists or freelance writers
• May not be signed
• Writing at high-school level or lower
• Rarely includes references or notes

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Scholarly vs. Popular

• For college and professional research, scholarly
  preferred (or required)
• Scholarly sources good for research, case
  studies, and reviews of works (books, articles,
  etc.) in a particular field
• Popular sources good for cultural references,
  current events, and interviews

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Primary vs. Secondary Sources
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Primary vs. Secondary

• Primary Sources
• Original accounts or records of historical events
• Diaries, journals, speeches, interviews, letters
• Memoirs and autobiographies
• Original documents (e.g. family Bible records)
• Photographs, documentaries, sound recordings
• Newspaper, magazine and journal articles and
  books written at the time about a particular
  event

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Primary vs. Secondary

• Secondary Sources
• Written later and/or provide historical analysis
• Textbooks
• Reference sources
• Other books and articles

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Primary vs. Secondary

• Photos, letters, and other original documents are
  considered primary even if they are reproduced in
  a book or other source (they are still artifacts)
• When in doubt, ask professor or librarian

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Primary or Secondary?

• Dr. Nix witnesses a fire and gives an interview
  about it in the Baltimore Sun
• Primary (fire)
• Reporter writes a book about Baltimore fires that
  mentions Dr. Nix
• Secondary (fire, Dr. Nix)
• Dr. Nix writes a book about Baltimore fires
• Primary (Dr. Nixs writings) or Secondary (fire,
  Baltimore)

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Maps
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Maps Intro

• Maps a 2-D representation of an area
  navigational aid
• Atlas bound or loose-leaf collection of maps
  includes place name index (historical, property,
  general, etc.)
• Gazetteers indexes of place names in
  alphabetical order includes geographical
  coordinates, and sometimes information on the
  origin of the place name

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Why Maps?

• Use maps to give context to your research
• Neighborhood
• Thematic (income, race, language, etc.)
• Historic (map from time being studied)
• Use overlays to illustrate change in an area
• SnagIt (http//www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.as
  p?CMPKgoogleStmhome)
• Gadwin ScreenCapture (http//www.gadwin.com/prints
  creen/)
• Adobe Photoshop (http//www.adobe.com/products/pho
  toshop/family)
• MS Paint

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Example UB Then Now

• Digital Sanborn Maps (Pro Quest)
• Pratt database
• Originals in Library of Congress
• Fire insurance maps (water lines, building
  material, etc.)
• Maryland maps first drawn in 1914 updated in
  1952
• Very popular maps

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Example UB Then Now

• Pro Quest Digital Sanborn Maps (1952), vol. 2,
  plate 196

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Example UB Then Now

• Pro Quest Digital Sanborn Maps (1952), vol. 2,
  plate 196

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Atlases at Langsdale

• ADC Street Maps
• An Atlas of Poverty in America One Nation,
  Pulling Apart, 1960-2003
• The Historical Atlas of American Crime
• National Atlas of the United States of America
• New Historical Atlas of Religion in America

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Maps Online

• Digital Sanborn Maps Maryland (ProQuest)
• Available at Pratt need to register barcode
• Social Explorer
• Free Census population maps 1940-2000
• American Map Collections
• Part of LC American Memory Project

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Wrap-Up

• Scholarly vs. popular depends on purpose of
  research, but scholarly usually
  preferred/required
• Primary vs. secondary some sources can be both
• Maps give context to your research
• When in doubt, ask professor or librarian

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Questions?
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Thank You!

• Reference Help
• Phone [phone]
• E-mail langref_at_ubalt.edu
• IM ublangsdale
• HIST 300 Course Page
• http//langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/course_websites/f
  a07/hist300_nix.htm