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Outline
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How The Internet Has
Changed Historical Research
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Distance Made Research Difficult
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Patent Office
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Copyright Office
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Historical Societies
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Locating Information was Difficult
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It’s Here Somewhere
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Found it!
It’s in One Of These Boxes
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Primary Sources Are Original Records.
 And May Include

  • letters
  • manuscripts
  • diaries
  • journals
  • newspapers
  • speeches
  • interviews
  • memoirs




  • government documents
  •  photographs
  • audio recordings
  • moving pictures or video recordings
  • research data
  • objects or artifacts
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Secondary Tertiary Sources
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Traditional Research Tools
  • Print sources
    • Directories
    • Newspapers
    • Advertising
    • Almanacs
    • Magazines
    • Catalogs and Journals
    • Government records
    • Local histories


  • Microfilm
  • Microfiche


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The Internet Has Changed that
Or Will
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A Digital Imaging Technician  Uses Flatbed Scanner For The Denver Library
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35mm Slides Are Loaded Into The Slide Scanner
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Camera Creates Color Scans More Quickly Than Older Flatbed Equipment
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Dissemination
Denver Library
  • The digital collection is accessible to the public in several ways.
  • 1.) Catalog records are loaded into OCLC and available through World Cat.  For records loaded after 1998, a URL links to preview images loaded on the Library’s web server.
  • 2.) The Library participates in the Colorado Digitization Project’s Heritage site.  Heritage users can search the Library’s catalog records and link to images stored on the Library’s web server.
  • 3.) Approximately 30,000 catalog records have been loaded to the Library of Congress’ American Memory Site. Links are made to preview files loaded on the Denver Public Library’s web server.
  • 4.) The Photo Collection maintains its own web site at http://photoswest.org.
  • 5.) High resolution display files are available at the Denver Public Library and the Colorado Historical Society. (Prior to 2000, workstations had been set up in 18 public libraries throughout Colorado.  This statewide network was discontinued when the web site was established.)
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It is Happening Exponentially
  • With Newspapers
  • With Images
  • With Primary Documents
  • With Directories
  • With Maps
  • In Libraries
  • In Historical Societies
  • In Government Offices
  • In Businesses
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Are We Back to This?
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Googlization
  • http://home.inreach.com/kumbach/velcro.html
  • http://www.brookview.karoo.net/Stick_Insects/


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Proliferation of Web Sites
  • Public Libraries
  • Specialty Libraries
  • Historical Societies
  • Government Sites
  • Genealogy
  • Cemeteries
  • Business



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It will Change Things
  • PRIVATIZATION OF THE INTERNET
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Research Databases
  • The Cost
  • The Benefits
  • Examples


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ProQuest
  • Provides services to Libraries and Universities
  • Products still evolving and morphing into new services.
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ProQuest
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ProQuest Newspapers
  • Atlanta Journal Constitution
  • The Boston Globe
  • The Chicago Defender
  • Chicago Tribune
  • Los Angeles Times
  • The New York Times
  • The Washington Post
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Articles by Keyword
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Proquest Obituaries
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Tools
  • Adobe
    • Writer
    • PhotoShop Elements
    • PhotoShop
  • MicroSoft
    • Word
    • Excel


  • Hardware
    • Thumbdrives
    • Scanners
    • Cameras


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Tips
  • Capturing images
  • Converting to text
  • Message boards
  • Tagging Pictures
  • Connecting with Collectors
  • EBay



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Research is Detective Work
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End
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Census Records
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Patent Office Gazette
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Microfilm
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Directories
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Trade Cards
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Almanacs
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Magazines
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Newspaper
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Catalogues and Trade Journals
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Even Cemeteries
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Geneology Sites
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Patent Office -Designs
  • Designs



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Patent Office -Designs
  • Classes
    • ccl/D9/$
    • ccl/215/$


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Patent Office -Trademarks
  • Emulsion
  • Emulsion AND Scott
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Why Stop at the US Border?
  • Australian Patent Office- Link


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Many US Bottles Here
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And Here
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And Here
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Libraries
  • Library of Congress
  • New York Public Library
  • University Libraries


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Specialty Libraries
  • National Library Of Medicine.
    • http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/gw_44_3/chameleon?search=KEYWORD&function=INITREQ&SourceScreen=INITREQ&sessionid=2007080716124116750&skin=nlm&conf=.%2fchameleon.conf&lng=en&itemu1=2000&scant1=PATENT%20&scanu1=21&u1=2000&t1=@71574&elementcount=3&pos=1&prevpos=1&



  • Cornell Law Library
    • http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/Visitors/index.cfm

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LOC
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NYPL
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Duke
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Cornell
  • In the case of the Bromo Seltzer murder, the killer appeared to be imitating all these earlier crimes in the selection of a painkiller for his poison medium and in hitting upon an anonymous mailed gift as his means of delivery. But something even more alarming was soon observed at work: the Bromo Seltzer killer seemed to be copying himself.
         This baffling likelihood surfaced early when a physician, Wendell C. Phillips, who attended Cornish after his poisoning, noted that his symptoms closely resembled those of another club member, Henry C. Barnet, who had died in the previous November after taking a dose of another patent medicine named "Kutnow powder," which he said had been mailed to him anonymously. Henry Douglass, Barnet's principal physician, submitted the medicine to a chemist for analysis and was advised that it contained cyanide of mercury, but because he attributed his patient's death to diphtheria, the damning chemical report was not called to the attention of the police until after the murder of Mrs. Adams. The authorities then ordered Barnet's body exhumed, and the postmortem examination confirmed the presence of cyanide of mercury.
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Heinz