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It Begins with a search bar...

As this site is meant to show some aspects of the technological resources available to the historian information community, please search for something historical, and see what might come up...

Historians are true "lifelong learners" (Horrigan, 2016), because one of the primary activities of their job description is to learn new things about old events and people. In 2016, Horrigan found that although there are more and more resources becoming available online, learners are still choosing to seek knowledge in physical settings, as opposed to digital. This was a finding from 6 years ago, so it may no longer be completely accurate, given the massive influx of digital information continuing to be made available everyday online. In an article by Morehart in 2016, he plays with the concept of "place" in relation to where we live our lives. "The "first place" is the home... the "second place" is where we work. The third exists as a community center point." (Morehart, 2016) While Morehart argues that the library is the "third place", I would like to argue that the internet is the "third place". Perhaps in 2016, the internet was not as influential as it is now, but today it rules the world. Access to the internet has opened up the world, and brought a sense of community, a sense of a whole, a connection between us people. It has created spaces for "lifelong learners" (Horrigan, 2016) to seek and find the knowledge they desire, whether it is recreational learning, professional advancement, or people with a career devoted to learning, like historians.

In the past few decades, archivists have added digital curation to their regular curation duties. It's not a revolution, so much as an amendment to their former responsibilities (Coburn, 2021). While the archive collections are duplicating and migrating to a digital platform, more and more historians are using these digital databases to access primary and secondary sources. In this website, I have attempted to create a simple representation of a digital database, along with posts about different historical archives located and accessible around the world. I have created a digital, abridged primary document, which has annotations about each page. This website is a tiny version of a social network and online digital database that a historian may use in their research.

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