Primary sources are the raw materials of history — original documents and objects which were created at the time under study. They are different from secondary sources, accounts or interpretations of events created by someone without firsthand experience.-- from Library of Congress, “Using Primary Sources”
Examples of primary sources:
artifacts, audio recordings, autobiographies, captains’ logs, diaries, emails, eyewitness accounts, government and organization records, interviews, letters, market surveys, novels, patents, photographs, poems, polls, postcards, proceedings from meetings, reports on discoveries, science experiment data, speeches, videos, weather charts, works of art or music, some websites.
Use this box to search the web for primary sources. Only collections marked with an asterisk (*) in this guide will be searched.
Image from a 12-century illuminated manuscript, the Madrid Skylitzes, is in the public domain.
SLO CAMPUS LIBRARY HOURS
Due to COVID-19, all library services are online during regularly scheduled hours until further notice. The hours for summer 2020 session are listed below. Click for Information about library services.
Monday: 9 am - 5 pm
Tuesday: 9 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 9 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 9 am - 5 pm
Friday: 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday: closed
The Open Lab in the library on the SLO campus (building 3200) will be open Mon. - Fri. 8 am - 5 pm for students lacking computers and internet access at home.
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Circulation Desk: (805) 546-3155
Reference Desk: (805) 546-3157
NORTH COUNTY LIBRARY HOURS
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Monday: 9 am - 5 pm
Tuesday: 9 am - 5 pm
Wednesday: 9 am - 5 pm
Thursday: 9 am - 5 pm
Friday: 9 am - 5 pm
Saturday: closed
The student computers in the Campus Center (building 1000) will be open Mon. - Fri. 8 am - 5 pm for students lacking computers and internet access at home.
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NCC PHONE (voicemail only)
Circulation Desk: (805) 591-6211
Reference Desk: (805) 591-6200 x 4410
Grateful acknowledgment is given to librarian Kelly L. Smith of the University of California, San Diego for the use of numerous links from her primary sources libguide.
