Please don’t forget the great resource we have that is freely accessible through the Library of Congress. It is Chronicling America http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ which contains digitized historic newspapers from approx. 40 states. The time period covers 1836-1922. Here in Connecticut, we digitized the Norwich Bulletin and the Bridgeport Evening Farmer from 1909-1922, and we are in the process of adding 3 more titles to Chronicling America going back to the 1870s. So, if you want to see what was happening closer to home, you may want to use this source. Chronicling America also highlights front pages every day in their “100 years ago today” section, and has links to topics, lesson plans, etc.

Check it out!

Gail

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Subject: Re: [Conntech] Library Research for the Topic (The day I was born)

I've had good success doing a very similar thing too. Instead of using the students' birth years I have them using their birth date and a specific year such as 1829. Then locate the front page in both the NYT Historical Database and The London Times digital archive. We explore how to find the front pages, then how to get the first news page in the London Times because the 1st page isn't always what we now consider the "front page"and we talk about why the news isn't the same for both papers. They usually have never considered how long it took for information to get across the Atlantic 100+ years ago. My students seem to have fun with it. There are lots of variations of this such as looking at what both papers headlines were the day the Titanic sank or the US civil war started.

Kiersty

Kiersty Cox

Instructor

School of Information

University of South Florida

cox@usf.edu

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Subject: RE: [ili-l] Library Research for the Topic (The day I was born)

I've done an assignment like this for an Information Literacy class. I had the students use Proquest's New York Times historical database, as we only have a one year boycott on holdings (so unless we have some very gifted infants in the class, we're fine).

An interesting variant on this might be to have the students research their birth date (example April 8th) or birth year in Wikipedia (or some other "this day in history" database) and see what events share their date of birth. Then have the students research the event or person they share that date with. For example, one of the odd things about being born on April 1st is that I share my birthday with Otto von Bismarck, architect of the German Empire, so I might look for materials on him.

Shonn Haren

Coordinator of Library Instruction

Wichita State University Libraries

shonn.haren@wichita.edu

316-978-6331

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Subject: [ili-l] Library Research for the Topic (The day I was born)

Colleagues,

A sociology class is researching the day they were born and how events from that day affect them today. We used the New York Times Historical database and Keesing’s Contemporary Archives, which ends for us in 1984. What types of resources do you use for this type of research? Thanks.

Karen

Karen DeLoatch

Head of Library Instruction/LTA Program Coordinator
Capital Community College
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Hartford, CT 06103
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