Mawdsley & Munck, Computing For Historians - An Introductory Guide

Abstract

Computers have changed everyone's lives and historians confront a variety of choices of how to utilize this technology to increase their productivity. The real challenge, however, lies in their discovering how to incorporate the computer into teaching and research tasks. The first step is to inquire about what is available at his or her workplace and then talk to colleagues who arc already familiar with computers. This reality alone makes it difficult to write any one book that accurately and in a timely fashion deals with how to employ computers and their accompanying technology in any one setting, since every institution has a different framework and wide discrepancies exist even among departments on the same campus.