Beginning my search for an article related to my argumentative topic: undergraduates and archives/archival research, though my professor had informed me that this topic was recently of great interest to many scholars, I more so expected there to be great difficulty. After applying the skills that I learned in our previous library session, using the keyword: archives and the phrase “undergraduate student”, I honestly expected no relevant sources to appear. Essentially, I expected this:
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But actually there were so many articles, relevant, articles that popped up that I had a hard time narrowing my choices down. Eventually I settled on Silivia Vong’s “A Constructivist Approach for Introducing Undergraduate Students to Special Collections and Archival Research”, which had been published in the journal RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Cultural Heritage. The article itself focuses on methods for how to introduce/education undergrads to archival research, which is right up my alley.
So while I expected to use more of the lessons taught by the tutorial provided by my professor, found here, my article search went very smoothly!