Reference FAQ
Being a list of questions frequently asked of Reference Librarians including the answers when appropriate and/or the sources from which these answers may be legitimately derived.
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Question Sources
Post & Courier newspaper articles

Post & Courier at Charleston.net does not index articles after 1999. 

County library only provides index but no full text so you still won’t get the article.

Lexis-Nexis gives actual P&C articles when you search US News by state. 


Where can I find primary sources?

These are some major web sites that access primary sources.

You may also find other sources by doing a search on google.com on "primary sources."

EuroDocs: Primary Historical Documents 
From Western Europe -- Selected Transcriptions, Facsimiles and Translations
http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/eurodocs/

National Archives and Records Administration
http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/teaching.html

American History Online Primary Sources
http://longman.awl.com/history/primarysources.htm
 

Yale University Library Primary Sources Research 
http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm

Digital Librarian Electronic Texts and Primary Sources
http://www.digital-librarian.com/electronic.html

Discover's Web Primary sources
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/primary.html