History Day
Each Spring, Wilson Library is host to many students from junior high through high school who come to do research for their History Day projects. The Periodicals area is especially busy, because many students are interested in journal articles and primary sources found in our F.C. Film collection and newspapers.
It is everyone's job to offer special attention and services for these students, especially because many are new to academic research and most are new to Wilson Library.
One-on-one help for their research questions can turn frustrations into revelations.
Please "go the extra mile" for these students:
1) free yourself from the desk to help them find their sources,
2) spend extra time explaining the microfilm machines,
3) ask broad questions to gather the information that will help you help them,
4) get staff to help with the tougher questions,
5) remember that we can log them into computers as guests, since they are doing scholarly research.
Below is a note from Susan Gangl, Wilson Reference Librarian and coordinator of University Libraries History Day activities. Please check out these links!
The University Libraries has a great History Day research page. You can now find the link on the Wilson page and the Visitors menu off the main libraries home page.
History Day Research at the University of Minnesota Libraries
http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/orientation/Pages/historyday/index.html
Wilson Library
http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/ (look under Do Your Research -- More Help)
Visitors
http://www.lib.umn.edu/site/visitors.phtml (look under Resources for Visitors)
All students please comment that you have read this post. Thanks!
Comments
Yay, i got the first post!
Posted by: Kyle | January 19, 2007 12:34 PM
all righty!
Posted by: marge | January 19, 2007 01:10 PM
got it
Posted by: Alicia | January 19, 2007 02:55 PM
cool, got it.
Posted by: adam e | January 20, 2007 12:16 PM
got it
Posted by: Marie | January 20, 2007 03:10 PM
yessum
Posted by: Jacey B | January 21, 2007 01:33 PM
i love helping young people gain knowledge about history!
Posted by: daryn | January 21, 2007 07:02 PM
sounds good!
Posted by: Brent | January 22, 2007 10:12 AM
Roger that
Posted by: Joe M | January 22, 2007 11:10 AM
odah gk
Posted by: Darin V | January 23, 2007 08:29 AM
Ok
Posted by: maggie | January 24, 2007 08:53 AM
I have read this post.
Posted by: Charlie | January 24, 2007 09:22 AM
History Day was amazing
Posted by: Justin | January 31, 2007 01:41 PM
Glad to see this entry about History Day. And after some pleading from the HD staff, I agreed to relocate the History Day Research Guide to an easier Web address. You can now find it at:
http://wilson.lib.umn.edu/historyday/
Posted by: Susan Gangl | February 6, 2007 04:23 PM