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Wisconsin Campuses (Bayshore, Racine, and Wauwatosa) Library Resources

The Bryant & Stratton College Virtual Library supports the college mission and curricular needs through acquisition and dissemination of critical information to students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

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What Are Primary Sources?

"Primary sources are documents, images or artifacts that provide firsthand testimony or direct evidence concerning an historical topic under research investigation. Primary sources are original documents created or experienced contemporaneously with the event being researched. Primary sources enable researchers to get as close as possible to what actually happened during an historical event or time period."--UCI Libraries.

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Searching for Primary Source Documents

To search in the Virtual Library for primary source documents, follow these steps:

  1. On the Virtual Library home page, click the A-Z Databases tab
  2. Click on the A-Z Databases link
  3. Select Academic Search Premiere or Social Justice Suite
  4. In Academic Search Premiere - from the Publication Type list, select Primary Source Document
  5. Enter keywords into the search field and click Search
  6. In Social Justice Suite - under ‘Access Through Your Institution,’ type Bryant & Stratton College
  7. Click Log In.

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Mission Statement

The Bryant & Stratton College Virtual Library supports the college mission and curricular needs through acquisition and dissemination of resources in all online media formats and as well as by meeting the critical information needs of its students, faculty, staff, and alumni. In support of the curriculum, the emphasis is on resource and information literacy instruction, digital and Internet access and instruction, and research and writing instruction. The library's purpose is to enable the students to attain the goals outlined in the College Mission Statement.
Links to websites that do not include Bryantstratton.edu in the address are suggested as information helpful for students and faculty. The websites are not affiliated with Bryant & Stratton College.