Guidelines for Secondary Source Literacy for History
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Purpose
Secondary source literacy allows researchers to engage with scholarly conversations about history. These guidelines express learning objectives for secondary source literacy in historical studies to complement the SAAACRL/RBMS Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy and the related ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. The guidelines define secondary sources as information sources that provide interpretation, analysis, or commentary based on primary sources in order to provide understanding of a topic. The primary audience is history librarians, along with others who would benefit from a companion document. These guidelines provide a shared language for articulating objectives related to secondary source literacy.
