Calendars / Chronologies • Quick resources for accessing dates in history, things that happened on a day in history, birth dates / death dates, etc.

• Examples include Chase’s Calendar of Events, This Day in History, LOC’s Today in History

Print Resources

Chase’s Calendar of Events

• Annual report on the year’s events

• Daily entries include birthdays, subject area milestones, and popular events

• Also features “Focus on…” areas, including major awards, presidents, chinese calendar, astronomical phenomena, etc.

•First Published in 1957

• Very brief amount of online information:

Chase's Calendar Home Page

Text Example: Chase’s• Facts are presented in list format

• Pages are black and white without pictures

• Similar to an Almanac, but purely date organized

Print Resources (cont.)

Timetables of History: A Horizontal Linkage of People and Events

• Presents historical events in a horizontal format

• Provides historical and geographic context to all major historical events

•No online content

Text Example: Timetables…

• Subject area of interest (1) History and Politics, 2) Literature and Theatre, 3) Religion, Philosophy and Learning, 4) Visual Arts, 5) Music, 6) Science, Technology and Growth and 7) Daily Life.

• Era in number form

• Factual entries

• Index to locate specific people or events

Print Resource ComparisonEvaluation - Selection

Chase’s… Timetable…Very well organized. Simple to find what you’re looking for.

Graphically organized. Difficult for textual readers to navigate.

Very linear. Events occur on a single page and are not connected to other events within the book or throughout history.

Encourages the discovery of creative connections linking events throughout history.

Browse-able

Online Resources

• Access to resource is not limited to a library building

• Generally, a library card will get you the access you need.

• Many are free to use.

• Interactive content often available

• Examples: This Day in History (The History Channel) , Today in History (Library of Congress), On This Day (New York Times)

This Day in HistoryCompilation of

historical resources, facts,

Produced by the History Channel, so there is a lot of multi media content

Subject Search Video Content Ads!?!

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

Today in History• Compilation of

many resources: print, primary source, and online

• Lacks video/audio• Makes up for it with

hyperlinked subject headings throughout fact entries that take you to LOC catalog searches for materials

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

On This Day• Part of the NY

Times Learning Network

• Made up of Associate Press and New York Times articles and research

• Internal links to New York Times articles about subject matter

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

Online Comparison

On this Day Today in History

This Day in History

New York Times -

Print content from associated press and N.Y. Times

Stock Photos

Library of Congress

Somewhat of a ‘federated search’ of all historical content housed in the LOC.

History Channel -

Multi-media content

Very accessible

Good search

Entertaining!!

Currency is key!!! Online resources will almost always be more current than print resources

Consumer Resources

• Collection of information of interest to consumers of products: cars, electronics, etc.

• Very focused audience. These are not general reference. Unless you are interested in purchasing a product, you won’t be browsing these for entertainment. Oh, wait! My dad has been reading consumer reports for years. But

Kelley Blue Book

• THE online car buying guide resource• Published for over 80 years, provides consumers with detailed pricing information and

Kelley Blue Book Content

• Intuitive visual search

• No real text search

• Integrated Web 2.0 tools such as forums, classifieds, user reviews

• Most info on new cars is direct from manufacturer

• Info on used cars is generated by

Consumer Reports• Basic information is available, but comprehensive product analysis is only available to paid subscribers

• Not quite as cutting edge as http://www.gizmodo.com or http://www.engadget.com,

•However, their info is objective and analytical

Calendars / Chronologies Question

When asked by a patron for information on cultural events in Africa taking place in the 1600s, which resource would best be used to find the information?

a. Chase’s Calendar of Eventsb. Timetables of History

Calendars / Chronologies Answer

When asked by a patron for information on cultural events in Africa taking place in the 1600s, which resource would best be used to find the information?

b. Timetables of History

ReferencesChase’s Calendar of Events. Chicago: McGraw Hill, 2009.

Consumer Reports. Retrieved July 1, 2009 from Consumer Reports Web site: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm

Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Kelley Blue Book. Irvine: Kelley Blue Book Co., 2008.

Kelley Blue Book. Retrieved July 1, 2009 from Kelley Blue Book Web site:Http://www.kbb.com

On this Day. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from The New York Times Web site: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

This Day in History. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from History.com Web site: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

Today in History. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from The Library of Congress: American memory Web site: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html