What are
primary resources?
A guide to identifying and using primary sources in Pickler Memorial Library
Pickler Memorial
Library Microforms Collection
Collections of primary materials ranging from records of presidential primaries
to the calendars and state papers of English monarchs.
Manuscript Collectons
Collections of letters, journals, and scrapbooks, most dealing with citizens of
Kirksville or Missouri or those affiliated with Truman State University.
These can give insight into the time periods in which they were produced.
Examples are the
Ross C.
Allen Letters, written by a World War II corporal to his parents in
Kirksville and the
Kirksville
Methodist Episcopal South records of marriages, baptisms, and memberships
between 1989 and 1907. These are located in the Special Collections room
on the third floor of Pickler Memorial Library.
Special
Collections
In addition to the manuscript collections, the Special Collections area also
contains larger holdings of materials. These include a Rare Books
collection of materials that are extremely old or valuable, scarce, signed by
the author, or otherwise unique or "rare" in some sense. Other collections
include the Violette-McClure Missouriana holdings of books or materials that
were written by Missourians, are about Missouri, or were published in Missouri,
The Brashear-Henderson Mark Twain Collection of works by and about Twain, and
the Harry L. Laughlin Eugenics Collection on eugenics, genetics, and related
topics donated to the library by Laughlin, a prominent researcher in the field
and an alumnus and formal faculty member.
Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
Large collection of documents in law, history, and
diplomacy from the 17th to the 21st century. The range from the
Charter
for the Province of Pennsylvania : February 28, 1681
to the The Texas
Declaration of Independence - March 2, 1836 to the
Executive
Order Establishing the Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security
Council; October 8, 2001
EuroDocs
Online sources for European history.
Class pages for HIST 231: Library Resources and HIST 231: Internet
Guide to Library Resources for Historical Research and related guides for
Political
Science, Sociology,
and Women's Studies.
A complete list of guides is available at
http://library.truman.edu/guides/mainpage.htm.