In Class Blog Post #8

Special Collections is an area located on the bottom floor of the Ingram Library, that basically has different materials (articles, newspapers, photographs, ect.), that are very rare from different places. Special Collections would be useful or beneficial to a research project because you could find different sources that may not be found somewhere else, or that has very specific details or information of your topic. Along with usuing Special Collections for a project, primary sources could be very helpful as well. Primary sources would give you first hand, unedited information of your topic. This could benefit your research because you know for a fact the data had not been altered or changed. Even though the primary source material may or may not be old, it is still the original source and is where any other information or details, elaborating on that source, came from. These sources could help to answer questions relating to, but not restricted to, how something started?, the origin of a certain topic, person, place or thing, or it could give you photographs that have not been altered or edited throughout the years. Primary sources and Special Collections could definitely benefit a person doing a research project, and it may be something I look into throughout any research I perform.