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- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
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- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of SFU’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early SFU Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer’s Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the SFU Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at SFU
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to SFU
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to SFU
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at SFU Archives
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How to Cite Archival Material
As with published material, you must cite archival sources used in your research, whether you are making reference to a source, paraphrasing or quoting from it directly or reproducing an image. It is important to know in advance the information you will need for your citations so that you can make adequate notations of your sources while conducting your research. The following examples show you how to cite different types of material you will encounter in the Archives.
Example of a citation
Location Reference
A) Name of repository
B) Title of fonds or collection
C) Reference designation (numerical designation for physical and intellectual control). In the SFU Archives, this will be a set of numbers such as F-1-2-3-4-5.
In this example, F-1 refers to the fonds
-2 refers to the series
-3 refers to the sub-series
-4 refers to the sub-sub-series
-5 refers to the file
Document description
D) Either quote the exact title of the document or provide a description of the specific item if there is no title.
E) Include date and page number if available.
Examples
1. Letter without a title:
Simon Fraser University Archives. Halpern Family fonds, F-58-2-0-0-9. Paul Kirby to Ida Halpern. 22 July 1954.
Simon Fraser University Archives. SFU Office of the President fonds, F-27-3-3-0-32. Brian Funt to K. Strand. 6 August 1968.
2. Excerpt from minutes:
Simon Fraser University Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-1-0-0-2. Minutes of meeting of East Enders Society. 24 February 1965.
3. Transcript of interview:
Simon Fraser University Archives. Women's Labour History collection, F-67-1-0-0-36. Transcript of interview of Lil Stoneman; Sara Diamond, interviewer. 1979.
4. Document with title:
Simon Fraser University Archives. East Enders Society fonds, F-59-6-0-0-1. "The Downtown Eastside Women's Centre," (pamphlet), p. 2. May 1991.