{"id":9688,"date":"2022-08-19T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T20:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2022-08-23T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T15:47:25","slug":"top-10-tips-for-navigating-archival-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2022\/08\/19\/top-10-tips-for-navigating-archival-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Tips for Navigating Archival Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;9702&#8242;]<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The process&nbsp;of conducting archival research&nbsp;can be&nbsp;daunting and&nbsp;seem&nbsp;confusing, especially&nbsp;for&nbsp;those who are new to working&nbsp;in an&nbsp;archive.&nbsp;UConn Archives &amp; Special&nbsp;Collections&nbsp;wants&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;demystify&nbsp;the&nbsp;research process&nbsp;by providing&nbsp;you with&nbsp;our&nbsp;top 10&nbsp;tips&nbsp;for doing archival research, which should help with increasing&nbsp;research efficiency and productivity during your visit.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some strategies and suggestions for working in the archives&nbsp;from our&nbsp;experienced&nbsp;team of&nbsp;staff&nbsp;and student&nbsp;workers.&nbsp;From planning your visit,&nbsp;to&nbsp;navigating the archive,&nbsp;to&nbsp;processing your research when you are home, we hope that this&nbsp;information&nbsp;will help&nbsp;guide&nbsp;you on your research journey, wherever you may be.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2022\/08\/23\/finding-primary-sources-online\/\">researching from home, check out this post!<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;9702&#8242;] The process&nbsp;of conducting archival research&nbsp;can be&nbsp;daunting and&nbsp;seem&nbsp;confusing, especially&nbsp;for&nbsp;those who are new to working&nbsp;in an&nbsp;archive.&nbsp;UConn Archives &amp; Special&nbsp;Collections&nbsp;wants&nbsp;to&nbsp;help&nbsp;demystify&nbsp;the&nbsp;research process&nbsp;by providing&nbsp;you with&nbsp;our&nbsp;top 10&nbsp;tips&nbsp;for doing archival research, which should help with increasing&nbsp;research efficiency and productivity during your visit.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2022\/08\/19\/top-10-tips-for-navigating-archival-research\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,4,6],"tags":[520],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-2wg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9711,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}