Lesson 1: Introduction to Digital Collections and Search Tools
Main Ideas:
- Keywords are a useful way to search for items on digital collections.
- When searching through digital collections it is important to narrow searches to specific collections related to the desired items.
Here is a link for the SHSMO website for the activity and if you'd like to follow along: Home | The State Historical Society of Missouri
Activity (Part 1):
In this activity you will be applying the skills you learned in the video to search for items within five different digital collections. Listed below are five collections that can be found on SHSMO's digital collections site. For each collection find one item and take note of its keywords.
- African American Experience in Missouri Collection
- Sports and Recreation Collection
- Editorial Cartoons Collection
- Photograph Collection
- Arts Collection
Activity (Part 2):
For this part of the activity you will be using the keywords you collected in Part 1. Use the keywords you found when searching through collections to find five new objects that also possess one or more of those keywords.