Bibliographic methods: libraries and the internet [LLETB102]

Learning outcomes

Acquire a broad general culture by opening up to other disciplines and understanding the links between them and history Learn to read and communicate in at least one language other than French Develop specialist knowledge in areas of the historical discipline and understand the issues involved Learn how to conduct a research question in history and master the tools and working methods specific to the discipline Mastering scientific communication by respecting the rules of reference and publication

Objectives

To know the characteristics of the main works useful to the historian, the art historian and the archaeologist (publications of the 19th-XXth-XXIst centuries): value, interest, limits; to write correctly the reference of a publication; to carry out a bibliographical research.

Content

To find one's way through the mass of documents offered by traditional and online libraries, one must first become aware of the different types of publications available to the historian, art historian and archaeologist. This is why the course successively considers, while taking care to underline their usefulness for the researcher, works of synthesis, reference works (encyclopaedias, dictionaries, atlases, directories), bibliographic instruments and specialised reviews, whether these publications are on paper or on computer support (internet...). Numerous exercises, in groups or individually, are based on this "theory": writing references, handling books, and learning the bibliographic research process. Specific sessions on online databases and Internet search engines are part of the course.