Please make sure that you are adding to your files (whatever system you might have, it has to be viewable from the K: drive!) the reference materials that you have been finding through any of the available systems (local, remote databases via local access, web access) so that in our hands-on session Monday we can try to locate some of those but also so you can later find other items that we don't have at HC when we go to Widener.
In other words, you should be compiling a list of relevant reference material that at some point you hope to find, visit or borrow, and have enough of it available by Monday so that we can actually look at some examples and I can show you some of the ones you might have missed.
Do not hesitate to ask me if you have any questions about the searching or if you feel that you are going in circles! Remember, we are going step by step into a large, very large mass of materials, but in a few weeks it will all seem more orderly to you because you will be able to make better use of the materials for your own purposes.
Keep searching also for government documents and other document collections. Don't forget that the READINGS I have assigned you offer many searching tips and concrete suggestions for searching and sources!! Carry those books with you during your work sessions.
Let me know what specialized Web sites you have found that provide well-researched gateways to your subjects and what archives or manuscript repositories you have identified as important either on the web (archives with their own sites) or through more traditional reference materials.