The History of the Circulation of Books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest
Raul Coronado, Professor
Ethnic Studies
Closed. This professor is continuing with Spring 2024 apprentices on this project; no new apprentices needed for Fall 2024.
This is an archival project on the history of the circulation of books in the Spanish-Mexican Southwest (California, New Mexico, and Texas). We will track down bibliographies of primary and secondary sources related to printed documents and books that circulated in the Southwest. We will then scan these sources and add them to a database. Using this information, we will be write a history about the circulation of ideas in the Southwest.
Role: Students will learn how to do archival research searching for primary and secondary sources. They will learn how to track down primary sources using various databases. Work may include using interlibrary loan to borrow books owned by other libraries. Student might also work in special collections at Berkeley, such as the archives at the Bancroft Library. They will learn how to handle archives carefully and learn how to document them. Students will learn to take archival quality photographs of original sources. Students will learn how to create organizational naming systems for archives in order to easily retrieve information. Students will also learn how to work with EndNote database, add sources to these databases, and create various kinds of bibliographies and timelines.
Students are asked to commit to a minimum of 5 hours a week.
Qualifications: Students should be meticulously detail-oriented, especially in creating bibliographies and taking pictures of original sources. If a record is misnamed or incorrect information is entered in a database, then that record will not be retrievable. Likewise, if photographs are taken but part of the text is deleted, then that record is also not usable. We will turn these scans into OCR-searchable PDFs. We will be working with a lot of data, and it's important that students are precise in creating bibliographies (e.g., spelling, etc.)
Students are asked to commit to a minimum of 5 hours a week.
Knowing basic-level Spanish and, to a lesser extent, Latin, would be helpful.
Hours: 3-5 hrs
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