Using a combination of digitized yearbooks, bulletins, newspapers and other resources can help you discover a lot about North Carolina A&T's history remotely. When searching the digital collections keep these tips in mind.
1. Use different versions of a person, organization or a place's name (ex. "James B. Dudley", "J. B. Dudley", "President Dudley", OR "A&T College", "A. and T. College", "Agricultural and Technical College, School of Engineering, "College of Engineering".
2. OCR (optical character recognition), the software used to read text off of scanned items is not perfect, so do not be discouraged if your first searches do not work. OCR can not read special fonts, hand-written signatures, and artistic text styles like those used in ads and posters.
3. Take advantage of advanced search functions like boolean operators "AND" "OR", "NOT", and time or geographic limiters.
4. Use regional and A&T resources to confirm histories found in larger databases.
5. Narrow your search as much as possible for best results. (ex. "A&T" AND "Dudley" VS. "A&T College" AND "President Dudley" AND "administration"
