Caris Brown, the Local
History Librarian for Helen Hall Library, will be the guest speaker at our
meeting on Thursday, April 10, at 11:45am. She will teach us about research methods
and resources for gathering data from historical sources that can be helpful
for our members in writing both fiction and nonfiction books.
She will begin by
discussing library databases and how they can be used for research. In
addition, she will go over the content and usefulness of city, state, and
federal archives as well as a few other archival repositories. Our MAP
Group members might find it helpful to look over the databases found on the Helen Hall Library website
before attending the meeting. Just go the library website and click on the
e-library tab found at the top of the page. Next, select library databases by
subject and you will be taken to the page with a list of all library databases.
Check them out!
Ms. Brown received a Master of Information Science (M.I.S.) degree from the University of Texas in 2002. Upon graduation she worked for History Associates Incorporated, a company in the Washington D.C. area that provides historians and archivists on a contract basis. She worked for the National Institutes of Health, the Library of Congress Map Division, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and Independence National Historical Park among many other organizations. In 2008, Ms. Brown became the Local History Librarian for Helen Hall Library and manages the archival collection.
Ms. Brown received a Master of Information Science (M.I.S.) degree from the University of Texas in 2002. Upon graduation she worked for History Associates Incorporated, a company in the Washington D.C. area that provides historians and archivists on a contract basis. She worked for the National Institutes of Health, the Library of Congress Map Division, the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, and Independence National Historical Park among many other organizations. In 2008, Ms. Brown became the Local History Librarian for Helen Hall Library and manages the archival collection.
Please
join us for this informative presentation.
