John Mark Ockerbloom
Apr. 11, 2006
Serials: A treasure trove of history
and documentation
•Newspapers: First reports
of events
–Primary sources for
history; essential for local history
•Magazines: Literature,
essays, debates as they first appear
–And often the only place
that they appear
–Lots of short-form work
that didn’t make it into books
•Scholarly journals: The
record of research
–The hypotheses, the
experiments, the data, the debates
•Specialty publications:
Insight into communities
–Trade journals, local and
special interest groups