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Item Open Access History Section: Professional Tools Version 2023(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2023)Visit this section of the History Section Web site for tools and resources for doing your job better.Item Open Access History Instruction and Research Links Version 2023(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2023) Instruction and Research Services CommitteeThese links include information related to history instruction, research, and information literacy.Item Open Access Primary Sources on the Web: Finding, Evaluating, Using Version 2015(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2015) Instructional and Research Services CommitteeThis brief guide is designed to help students and researchers find and evaluate primary sources available online.Item Open Access RUSA Guidelines for Secondary Source Literacy for History Version 2023(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2023-02-08) Academic Librarians CommitteeSecondary source literacy allows researchers to engage with scholarly conversations about history. These guidelines express learning objectives for secondary source literacy in historical studies to complement the SAA ACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy and the related ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The guidelines define secondary sources as information sources that provide interpretation, analysis, or commentary based on primary sources in order to provide understanding of a topic.Item Open Access RUSA Guidelines for Developing and Maintaining Genealogy and Local History Collections Version 2023(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2023-07-31) Genealogy Committee; Local History CommitteeThese guidelines are intended to assist librarians in developing and maintaining a collection for genealogy/family history and/or local history (hereafter “Collection”). These guidelines address not only collection development and maintenance but also services, personnel, access, preservation, and fiscal considerations. These guidelines are designed to support the needs of librarians and other library staff (hereafter “the librarian”) either in establishing a Collection that has not previously existed or in continuing to develop and maintain an existing Collection, including cases where a Collection may have been assigned to a new librarian.Item Open Access RUSA Guidelines for Instruction in Genealogical Librarianship Version 2023(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2023-07-07)These guidelines serve faculty members who design and/or teach a genealogical librarianship course, or who include such content in a broader course. In addition, those who provide continuing education to library professionals in the area of genealogical resources and services can use these guidelines to identify appropriate topics.Item Open Access Information Literacy Guidelines and Competencies for Undergraduate History Students Version 2013(Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), 2013-05-28) Instruction and Research Services CommitteeThese guidelines, which are to be used in conjunction with the Association of College and Research Libraries’ “Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education,” are a measurable set of proficiencies required for successful historical research by undergraduate students. This document has multiple purposes. It is intended to inform students of basic skills required for historical study; to provide a framework for faculty and librarians to assess those skills; to aid faculty in designing research methods classes, assignments, and projects; and to encourage collaboration between librarians and faculty in teaching, course design, and assessment of undergraduate history education.Item Open Access An Informal History of ALA RSD/RASD/RUSA History Section, 1961-2001: Forty Years of Progress(2001-06) Carothers, Diane; Caronell, Marilyn; Brown, Don; Reinert, Margaret AnnItem Open Access History Section Brochure(2009) History Section