TOUR
Archives of Sexuality & Gender:
LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940
This tutorial was created by Zackary Chance Medlin for his 17:610:530:90 class at Rutgers University in the Fall of 2017
Howdy, my name is Chance Medlin, I use he/him/his pronouns and I work at Texas A&M University Libraries! I am also an Aggie Ally. If you ever need someone to talk to or have questions, I would be more than happy to listen and help!
In this tutorial, I am going to show you around a great resource called Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940. This database is an amazing resource where you can find primary documents and learn more about LGBTQ history and culture.
You can scroll down the page to learn more!
If you have questions or need additional help, please contact me!
In this tutorial, I will be covering:
- How to find the Archives
- What's inside the Archives
- How to Search the Archives
- What you can do with items you find
- Interesting Features
- How to Get More Help
Let's start by talking about how you can get to the Archives of Sexuality & Gender: LGBTQ History and Culture since 1940.
Now that we are here, let's explore what is inside the Archives!
Some of the types of documents included are:
- Meeting, committee, and conference minutes
- Press releases, articles, fliers, brochures, and presentations
- Newspapers, newsletters, and magazines
- Studies and reports by US government agencies and nongovernmental organizations
- Medical research records and reports
- Private correspondence
- Surveys
- Photographs
For instance, If you are only looking for a map, or perhaps just want to look through images, you can limit your search to the collections that include that material.
Searching the Archives
After clicking search, you will see the results screen.
The results will be organized in chunks based on content type.
You can narrow your results by using the limits on the left side of the screen.
There are 'Subjects' that put your results in new categories. These may give you other search keywords to try.
What you can do with items you find
If you click on an item that you want to explore further, you will see that the Archives will show you pages that are relevant to the words you searched. So you can click on specific pages to see where your search terms are. They will be highlighted in green. You can also use the 'Search Within' feature to search the document with new keywords.
There is also a nice expandable Table of Contents to explore the item.
There are many great options to make sure you can keep any great finds:
- Bookmark - get a link to view later
- Download
- Share on social media
- Citation Tools - that give you citations in different formats and allow you to export the citation to a citation management tool
Interesting Features
Need more help ? I am here for you!
- Need more help?
- Not finding what you are looking for?
- Do the Archives not have what you are looking for?
- Want someone to talk to?
Feel free to contact me:
- zmedzo@library.tamu.edu
- 979.862.8127
- [Evans] Annex Room 420.F