17 April 2014
Just how are we supposed to write an author's name in a source citation? The answer, as usual, is: It depends....

16 April 2014

Yesterday, we posed a "test." You've brain-stormed the document well and offered good insight.  One relevant issue has not been raised. It’s one that absolutely affects the answer to the question we posed against yesterday's document.  So you don't have to flip back to that blog post, here's the problem:

16 April 2014 The word "archive" has two basic meanings: (1) a collection of records held by an individual, a firm, an agency, etc.; (2) ...

15 April 2014 Census records are a mainstay of research into past societies. While using them, we encounter many situations that prompt us to think, Hunh? Why is this? Are my prior assumptions wrong?

14 April 2014 The Velcro Principle? Yes. That's the one we follow when trying to decide how to arrange all the elements of a citation: "Don't separate what ought to stick together." A page number ...

13 April 2014 The citation police are notorious. They thrive on blogs like QuickTips and use its content to predict perdition for all poor souls who violate wee tenets of EE or CMOS or MLA. Or so we hear. Frequently. Perhaps today's commandments will come in handy sometime, when you are cornered by citation zealots who have forgotten their own past transgressions. ...

11 April 2014 "In 2009, USGS began the release of a new generation of topographic maps in electronic form, and is now complementing them with the release of high-resolution scans of more than 178,000 historical topographic maps of

10 April 2014 Citations to original records held in courthouses and town halls may vary from one to the next, depending upon the nature of the record and the focus of your own work. For example: ...

9 April 2014 Even at law, similar words have different meanings. On the one hand, "indent" and "indenture" are related. On the other hand, "indentures" mean something else entirely. ...