Primary Source: material that contains firsthand accounts of events and that was created contemporaneous to those events or later recalled by an eyewitness.
Secondary Source: A work that is not based on direct observation of or evidence directly associated with the subject, but instead relies on sources of information.
Call number - A unique combination of letters and numbers used to identify an item and to facilitate storage and retrieval.
Finding aid - a description that typically consists of contextual and structural information about an archival resource
Facsimile - A reproduction that simulates the appearance of the original as closely as possible.
International Standard Book Numbering (ISBN) - A standard ten to thirteen-digit number used to uniquely identify books.
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) - A standard eight-digit number used to uniquely identify serial publications, including electronic serials.
Journal - A periodical, especially one of a scholarly nature or published for a professional group.
Metadata - information about data that promotes discovery, structures data objects, and supports the administration and preservation of records. Metadata may be embedded or external. It may be applied at a variety of levels of granularity and during different periods in the life cycle of data. It is typically demarcated and standardized, and it often provides context.
Now that you have located materials you would like to view in-person, make sure you know where to go to see them! FSU Special Collections & Archives serves materials in two different readng room locations and also store materials offsite.
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Special Collections & Archives Website
FSU Library Catalog
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Visit SCA In-Person
SCA Research Center
110 Strozier Library, Main Floor
(850) 644-3271
Claude Pepper Library
Claude Pepper Center, 636 W Call St
(850) 644-9217
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