Local History and Local Museum

• Internet - the first tool that any student nowadays would use to do research
• Cyberspace ‐ the virtual world of the internet, where people can communicate and exchange information
• Search String - a combination of words that you use to come up with relevant results and lead you to what you are looking for
• Google Scholar - Google's own customized platform for scholarly research
• Google Books - provides sources for scanned books
• Wikipedia - the biggest open source encyclopedia in the whole of cyberspace
• Project Gutenberg - the oldest digital library in the world, founded in 1971
• Doctrina Cristiana - the first published book in the Philippines
• Internet Archive - an online library that originally sought to archive web history, but grew later on to provide digital versions of other works
• Philippine Government Websites - may be used for historical research, especially on laws and other government issuances
• Online Public Access Catalog - the digital version to catalog libraries' holdings
• What is the simpler term for OPAC?

  Library Catalog
• Online Public Access Catalog - in this system, a simple search will yield the holdings of the library related to what you are searching for
• The National Library of the Philippines - provides a rich treasure trove of materials for the student-researcher interested in Philippine history
• The National Archives of the Philippines - an agency of the government mandated to collect, store, preserve, and make available records of the government
• Life History - an oft-neglected subdiscipline of history because it is seen as trivial to larger narratives of nations, societies, and civilizations
• Local History - is the study of the history of a particular community or a smaller unit of geography
• Local History - aims to have an in-depth understanding of a certain locale
• History from below - the term used referring to local history facilitating a historical narrative emanating from the people
• Oral History - one important historical methodology
• Positivist Historians - those who believe that history should be primarily based on written documents to criticize the methods of oral history
• Historical Markers - ensure that the site where it is located is indeed, of historical and cultural value to the nation
• Who put up these historical markers?

  National Historical Commission of the Philippines