The document discusses various print and online resources for finding historical dates and events, including Chase's Calendar of Events, Timetables of History, Today in History from the Library of Congress, and This Day in History from The History Channel. It provides examples and comparisons of the resources. When asked which would best locate cultural events in Africa during the 1600s, Timetables of History is identified as it presents historical events in a graphical horizontal format providing geographic and historical context.

1. Calendars / Chronologies
• Quick resources for accessing dates in history, things that
happened on a day in history, birth dates / death dates, etc.
• Examples include Chase’s Calendar of Events, This Day in History,
LOC’s Today in History

2. Print Resources
Chase’s Calendar of Events
• Annual report on the year’s events
• Daily entries include birthdays, subject area
milestones, and popular events
• Also features “Focus on…” areas, including
major awards, presidents, chinese calendar,
astronomical phenomena, etc.
•First Published in 1957
• Very brief amount of online information:
Chase's Calendar Home Page

3. Text Example: Chase’s
• Facts are presented in list format
• Pages are black and white without
pictures
• Similar to an Almanac, but purely date
organized

4. Print Resources (cont.)
Timetables of History: A Horizontal
Linkage of People and Events
• Presents historical events in a
horizontal format
• Provides historical and geographic
context to all major historical events
•No online content

5. Text Example: Timetables…
• Subject area of interest (1)
History and Politics, 2)
Literature and Theatre, 3)
Religion, Philosophy and
Learning, 4) Visual Arts, 5)
Music, 6) Science, Technology
and Growth and 7) Daily Life.
• Era in number form
• Factual entries
• Index to locate specific people
or events

6. Print Resource Comparison
Evaluation - Selection
Browse-able
Chase’s… Timetable…
Very well organized. Simple to find what Graphically organized. Difficult for
you’re looking for. textual readers to navigate.
Very linear. Events occur on a single Encourages the discovery of creative
page and are not connected to other connections linking events throughout
events within the book or throughout history.
history.

7. Online Resources
• Access to resource is not limited to a library building
• Generally, a library card will get you the access you need.
• Many are free to use.
• Interactive content often available
• Examples: This Day in History (The History Channel) ,
Today in History (Library of Congress), On This Day (New
York Times)

8. This Day in History
Compilation of
historical
resources,
facts,
Produced by
the History
Channel,
so there is
a lot of
multi media
content
Subject Search Video Content Ads!?!
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

9. Today in History
• Compilation of
many resources:
print, primary
source, and online
• Lacks video/audio
• Makes up for it with
hyperlinked subject
headings
throughout fact
entries that take you
to LOC catalog
searches for
materials
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

10. On This Day
• Part of the NY
Times Learning
Network
• Made up of
Associate Press
and New York
Times articles
and research
• Internal links to
New York
Times articles
about subject
matter
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html

11. Online Comparison
Currency is key!!! Online resources will almost always be more current than print resources
On this Day Today in This Day in
History History
New York Times - Library of Congress History Channel -
Print content from Somewhat of a ‘federated Multi-media content
associated press and N.Y. search’ of all historical Very accessible
Times content housed in the Good search
Stock Photos LOC.
Entertaining!!

12. Consumer Resources
• Collection of information of interest to
consumers of products: cars, electronics, etc.
• Very focused audience. These are not
general reference. Unless you are interested
in purchasing a product, you won’t be
browsing these for entertainment. Oh, wait!
My dad has been reading consumer reports
for years. But

13. Kelley Blue Book
• THE online car buying guide resource
• Published for over 80 years, provides consumers with detailed pricing information and

14. Kelley Blue Book Content
• Intuitive visual search
• No real text search
• Integrated Web 2.0
tools such as forums,
classifieds, user
reviews
• Most info on new cars
is direct from
manufacturer
• Info on used cars is
generated by

15. Consumer Reports
• Basic information
is available, but
comprehensive
product analysis is
only available to
paid subscribers
• Not quite as
cutting edge as
http://www.gizmodo.com
or
http://www.engadget.com
,
•However, their info
is objective and
analytical

16. Calendars / Chronologies
Question
When asked by a patron for information
on cultural events in Africa taking
place in the 1600s, which resource
would best be used to find the
information?
• Chase’s Calendar of Events
• Timetables of History

17. Calendars / Chronologies
Answer
When asked by a patron for information
on cultural events in Africa taking
place in the 1600s, which resource
would best be used to find the
information?
b. Timetables of History

18. References
Chase’s Calendar of Events. Chicago: McGraw Hill, 2009.
Consumer Reports. Retrieved July 1, 2009 from Consumer Reports Web site:
http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/index.htm
Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.
Kelley Blue Book. Irvine: Kelley Blue Book Co., 2008.
Kelley Blue Book. Retrieved July 1, 2009 from Kelley Blue Book Web site:
Http://www.kbb.com
On this Day. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from The New York Times Web site:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/index.html
This Day in History. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from History.com Web site:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do
Today in History. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from The Library of Congress: American memory Web site:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html