Special Collections & Archives has published a new online guide that introduces students and emerging scholars to archives and primary source research. Visitors to Archives & Archival Research: An Introduction for Students and Emerging Researchers at UC Santa Cruz can read about a range of topics that include becoming aware of silences and biases in archives, preparing for a visit to an archival repository, identifying archival collections of interest, and what to expect from your archival research process.

We built this site based on the needs of our students as well as requests by faculty and graduate teaching assistants. We designed it so that instructors can assign all or parts of it when teaching, and included are adaptable assignments and suggested discussion prompts. Questions about incorporating archival sources into a class, or finding them for an assignment? Reach out to Special Collections & Archives at speccoll@library.ucsc.edu.

Visit Archives & Archival Research: An Introduction for Students and Emerging Researchers at UC Santa Cruz