Welcome to the library guide for LIB 180. This guide is designed to highlight a few resources to begin your research process. The UNC Libraries offers numerous resources including monographs, journals and electronic databases. We have also included links to a number of digital primary source collections from around the region and the world.
Chicago Manual of Style is the standard tool for historians. The following links should help you with citing almost anything you encounter in your research. If you need additional help, please contact me.
Chicago Manual of Style Online
Encore is the place to start to identify books, microforms, journals and other resources held in the Libraries' collections.
The collections in the Michener Library include numerous edited collections of primary sources.
Specific subject headings are used in library catalogs to describe primary source documents that have been collected and published. Here are some examples:
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Jay Trask
Head of Archives and Special Collections
jay.trask@unco.edu
970-351-2322
Darren Ilett
Teaching and Outreach Librarian
darren.ilett@unco.edu
970-351-3577