Continuing Education Workshop Santa Fe Community College Facilitator

Continuing Education Workshop Santa Fe Community College Facilitator: Sherry Sherrod Du. Pree, Ed. S. 3000 NW 83 rd Street Student Services S-212 Gainesville, FL 32606 1 -352 -395 -5407, fax 352 -395 -4475 Sherry. Du. Pree@SFCC. edu http: //cisit. SFCC. edu/~sdupree

Reference Resources For African American Research Did you know that there's a wealth of African-American historical resource links you can visit on the Internet? For example "North American Slave Narratives" includes documents that recount the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is just one of numerous historical resources covered in this workshop. Learn how to access both primary and secondary documents, databases archives, libraries, maps, images, and more. While the workshop will cover resources across the United States, the emphasis will be on resources on the Southeast. Current as well as historical resources will be covered.

A Roadmap to African-American Resources • Learn about African- American resource links that you can visit on the internet. • The sites offer a range of resources: connecting you to pages where you can access both primary and secondary documents, databases, archives, libraries, maps, images and more.

Mission and Goals • To locate accurate, timely and useful African. American information available on the internet. • To recognize and evaluate reliable African. American internet sites useful for in-depth research. • To recognize and evaluate reliable African. American internet sites useful for ready reference. • To understand the limitations of using the internet for African-American research.

African American Resources Agenda Welcome and Introduction Overview of Objectives (Special interest Florida and Central American) What’s on the Web? (Power Point Presentation) Advantages of Using the World Wide Web Speed, timeliness Interactivity Multiple Access Points Full Text E-Books What’s not Available on the Web… Older ( pre – 1985 ) Legislative Information Some Tax Records Major Disadvantages of the Web Instability of Resources Fear of Technology Unrealistic User Expectations Equipment Cost Review of African American Internet Sites Hands – On Exercises Review of Exercises Summary Of Objectives Course Evaluation

African-American History The Origin of Martin Luther King Day, January 15 th (Federal Holiday) Third Monday in January, January 19, 2004 "Remember! Celebrate! Act! Day On, Not A Day Off!!" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Souls of Black Folk (100 th Anniversary) 2003

Black History Month Carter G. Woodson (1875 -1950) was born to parents who had been Slaves, neither mother or father could read or write. Mr. Woodson had to work to earn money for the family, and did not start school until later than most children, but his motto was it is “Never too late to learn. ” He became a high school teacher and was sad to discover that none of the schools taught the history of Black Americans. He started the association for the study of Negro life and history to study the important things black people had accomplished and on February 19, 1926 Woodson established “Negro History Week, ” which is now called Black History Month in the U. S.

Library of Congress Classification System • • • A - General Works B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion C - Auxiliary Sciences of History D - History: General and Old World E - History: America F - History: America G - Geography, Anthropology, Recreation H - Social Sciences J - Political Science K - Law

Library of Congress Classification System • • • L - Education M - Music and Books on Music N - Fine Arts P - Language and Literature Q - Science R - Medicine S - Agriculture T - Technology U - Military Science V - Naval Science Z - Bibliography, Library Science

The Dewey Decimal Classification System • • • 000 Generalities 100 Philosophy and Psychology 200 Religion 300 Social Sciences 400 Language 500 Natural Sciences and Mathematics 600 Technology (Applied Sciences) 700 The Arts 800 Literature and Rhetoric 900 Geography and History

Ready Reference The Origin of Martin Luther King Day, January 15 th Federal Holiday: Third Monday, January 20, 2003 "Remember! Celebrate! Act! Day On, Not A Day Off!!" The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Black History Month Themes: “The Souls of Black Folk (100 th Anniversary) 2003 "The Color Line Revisited: Is Racism Dead? ” 2002 "Creating and Defining the African-American Community: Family, Church, Politics, Culture" 2001

Advocacy Sites Art Sites Auto/biographical Site Business/Marketing Sites Current Sites Commercial Sites Educational Sites Governmental Sites Historical Sites News Sites Organizational Sites Primary Sites Secondary Sites

Web Sites Based on The Library of Congress Classification Understanding Call Numbers Have you ever wondered how library books are assigned their places on the shelves? Did you know that the call number -- the number placed on the spine of the book -- is a code What does the call number mean? Remember that Library of Congress Classification arranges materials by subjects. The first sections of the call number represent the subject of the book. The letter-and-decimal section of the call number often represents the author's last name. And, as you recall, the last section of a call number is often the date of publication. example: Ref AG 243. G 87 1992 The Ref prefix indicates that this book is shelved in the Reference Collection.

A - General Works Current Sites The Black World Today http: //gort. ucsd. edu/ Rosewood Florida Bus Tours of Rosewood http: //bustour. freeyellow. com/index. html http: //www. displaysforschools. com/

A - General Works - Museums

Wrapped in Pride Quilts and Dolls

A - General Works News Sites

A - General Works. Organization Site

Organization Sites

C - Auto/Biography Site 920 - Biography • Sojourner Truth Langston Hughes

E - History: America Historical Sites 970 - History http: //www. blackhistory. com/ http: //www. blackfacts. com/ Great for ready reference questions

E – History: America 960 – General History of Africa

African-American History E – History: America 970 – History of North America • Elements in the Population: E 184. 5 – E 185. 98 • Biography, Genealogy: E 185. 96 – E 185. 98

F - History: Western Hemisphere 970 – History of North America Florida Pennsylvania Virginia

Latin America & The Caribbean • Antigua and Barbuda A Taste of Ecuador

P – Literature 860 - Literature Spanish American 869 - Portuguese ANGLO-CARIBBEAN LITERATURE • • • English Around the World http: //eleaston. com/world-eng. html Post Imperial Literatur www. scholars. nus. edu. sg/landow/post/index. html Children’s Lit Web Guide http: //www. acs. ucalgary. ca/~dkbrown/ Post-Colonial Studies (Emory) http: //www. emory. edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Intro. html Virtual Inst. Of Caribbean Studies http: //pw 1. netcom. com/~hhenke/index. htm Heinemann Press (Caribbean) http: //www. heinemann. com/ Journal of Caribbean Lit (USA) www. jcls. net Ariel: Journal (Canada) www. ucalgary. ca/~ariel/ Atlantic Literary Review (India) www. geocities. com/atlanticliteraryreview/ Wasafiri: Journal (Post-Colonial) www. english. qmw. ac. uk/wasafiri/ Jouvert: Journal (Post-Colonial) http: //social. chass. ncsu. edu/jouvert/

Reference Tools Puerto Rico Puerto Rican Genealogy http: //www. genealogiapr. com/ Puerto Rican Biographies http: //www. angelfire. com/ny/conexion/menu. html University of Puerto Rico http: //upracd. upr. clu. edu: 9090/content. htm Super. Pages. PR http: //pr. superpages. com/ UPR Radio Station (Puerto Rico) www. radiouniversidad. org/ Hispanic American Periodical Index HAPI Online: http: //hapi. gseis. ucla. edu/hapi/html/free/about. shtml Caribbean Newspapers: Granma (Cuba) El Nuevo Dia (Puerto Rico) http: //www. cananews. com/newspapers. htm http: //www. granma. cu/index. html http: //www. endi. com/

H - Business/Marketing Site 300 - Social Sciences The National MBA Association

Government Sites. gov The Library of Congress

N - Fine Arts 790 - Theatre and recreation, films Visual Arts Art Sites Music The Fine Arts

L - Educational Site. edu 370 - Education The Library of Congress

R- Medicine Organization. org American Heart Association Search Engine http: //www. americanheart. org/presenter. jhtml? identifier=1200026

U- Military. mil Black Southerners in Gray: Essays on African-Americans in Confederate Armies http: //www. weyrich. com/book_reviews/black_grey. html

Q - Science Weather 520 – Astronomy

Search Engines

2002 -2003 Bet. com Black America Web. com Black Enterprise Black Facts Online Black. Girl International Black Planet. com Black Singles Black Voices. com Black Web Portal The Black World Today Blackworld City Alert Dallas Black Def. Jam Ebony Essence EUR Web. com Everything Black Gospel City HBCU Mega Site Jet Online NAACP Sean John The Source Tom Joiner Morning Show

Baby. Phat National Society of Black Engineers Rock-A-Fella Soul of America Y 2 G. com

Research Strategies • • • Boolean Field Keyword Phrase Proximity Truncation

Identifying Keywords • Leave out minor words such as a, an or the • Keep track of search terms • Browse web subject directories • Check the Library of Congress and The Dewey Decimal Classification Systems

MLA Handbook

Other Style Manuals • Turabian Style • Chicago Style Library Jargon

African American Heritage Quiz http: //cisit. sfcc. edu/~sdupree/19 ques. htm Answers can be found by using the following web site databases: A Roadmap to African-American Resources, http: //cisit. sfcc. edu/~sdupree/histres. htm Research Libraries: The Internet Network (RLIN) http: //cisit. sfcc. edu/~sdupree/RLIN. htm Displays for Schools http: //www. displaysforschools. com/

We’ve come to the END OF THE ROAD to African American resources The END is just the BEGINNING to Research Santa Fe Community College Sherry Sherrod Du. Pree , Ed. S. Sherry. dupree@SFCC. edu