Primary sources are original records created at the time historical events happened, or well after they happened in form of memoirs or oral history, Primary sources can include letters, diaries, journals, newspapers, speeches, interviews , and documents.
Doing a quick check for some primary resources on the web and you will probably come up with ALA and their recommendations.
Here are a few sites that you can check out for use by your staff and students. You might want to offer lessons on these or perhaps have them available on your library website,
American History
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
Avalon Project
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
World History
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
Doing a quick check for some primary resources on the web and you will probably come up with ALA and their recommendations.
Here are a few sites that you can check out for use by your staff and students. You might want to offer lessons on these or perhaps have them available on your library website,
American History
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
Avalon Project
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/
Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
http://moa.cit.cornell.edu/moa/
World History
http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/
http://vlib.iue.it/history/index.html
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