In addition to this site students should consult the Musselman Library homepage. For an individual research paper consultation sign up at the reference desk. Karen Drickamer, director of Special Collections , is also very helpful in locating various primary sources. Secondary literature is useful for discovering what others have written about your topic and identifying the issues and debates engaging scholars of that field. If you are not certain of the specific subject heading use a keyword search.
Primary sources are first-hand accounts, images or artifacts of historical events.
Examples of these are letters and diaries, photographs, personal papers, songs and music, newspapers and official records. There are seventeen Civil War Era newspapers on microfilm at Musselman Library. The library's home page offers a user-friendly way to explore the many web resources available to Gettysburg College, such as databases that are available only to campus users. You can browse by date or genre, search the index for specific subjects, or find people by their occupation or role in society. To doing research on the web.