Worksheet 3 - Pack Library

WORKSHEET # 3, Pack Library

DUE: September 15, 1998

Primary source materials are generally considered to be original documents which include such items as speeches, novels, diaries, legislative bills, field research reports, eyewitness accounts, laboratory studies, oral histories, photographs, etc. Primary source materials are not necessarily any more reliable than secondary sources, and for that reason, they should be critically evaluated for bias as closely as any other source.

Our exploration of Pack Library will focus on primary source materials. This exercise is planned to give you an understanding of those materials and their importance to the research process.

1. Build a complete bibliography for all the items you consult in this exercise.

List items below, as you work: (use the back of this sheet if necessary)

2. How does the organization of the Asheville-Buncombe County Room differ from the organization of materials in our (UNCA’s) general collections?

3. What classification system does the Pack Library use?

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What classification system does the D. H. Ramsey Library at UNCA use?

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4. What is a finding aid?

List 3 finding aids you consulted at Pack Library for your chosen topic:

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5. What is a vertical file? Describe.

3 examples of materials found in the vertical files at Pack Library.

(Does not have to be related to your topic)

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2.__________________________________________________________________

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6. What preservation/conservation practices need to be considered when working with primary source materials? Briefly discuss.

7. Is there an index for the Asheville - Citizen Times newspaper at Pack Library? __________

Is there an index for the Asheville - Citizen Times newspaper at Ramsey Library? _______

If there is an index at Pack Library, how is it indexed?

What period of time is covered? ______________________________________________

8. What are the hours during which Pack Library is open? ____________________________

9. If you are unable to locate the material you are looking for at Pack Library, what would be your next action?

10. Briefly describe the differences you observed between the services that public libraries provide and those provided by academic libraries?

Briefly describe the similarities you observed in the two libraries?

Suggested topics for research at Pack Library:

Thomas Wolfe E. W. Grove John Nolen

Richard Sharpe Smith Fred Seely George W. Pack

Douglas Ellington Richard Morris Hunt James W. Patton

Buncombe Turnpike Col. John Patton Col. Frank Coxe

Western North Carolina Railroad Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Richmond Pearson

Asheville City Directory and Gazetteer of Buncombe Co. 1883-84

John Fox, Jr. YMI Building Raphael Guastavino

Asheville Light Infantry Company K, Third North Carolina Volunteers

Dr. Lewis M. McCormick Zebulon Vance St. Lawrence Basilica