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MLL / FILM / GS 090-012: How has photography changed the world?

Making the most out of your course guide!

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Frances Benjamin Johnston, 15 Jan 1864 - 16 May 1952. By Gertrude Käsebier - https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.83.199, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87853146

Use the tabs in this guide to:

  • Learn strategies for evaluating information
  • Find interdisciplinary and subject specific sources and how to cite them
  • "Geek out" on library resources

The Research Process

Source descriptions

Information timeline

Timeline of where and in what format information about an event is published.

Information Timeline Graphic by adstarkel. Used under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

When an event first happens, there is not a lot of information about it because information takes time to create. As your event recedes into the past, there has been time for more accurate and in-depth information to have been created. If you are not finding information on your event, consider where your event is in this timeline. Has there been enough time for a scholarly article to have been written about your event?