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Teaching Online with Primary Sources

Digitized Collections from Other Institutions

Thoughts on Digital Images

As with all information, researchers will want to consider how digitized materials are produced and presented. SCUA attempts to present its digitized materials as true to the original as possible, but other digital collections may not follow the same standards or may edit their images. Digital collections may not include every item from a collection, so a researcher will want to consider what may have been included or not. Context is important for understanding materials, and the presentation of digitized items apart from other materials in the originating collection could affect this.


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