Conor Casey: Home

For students, I can:

• Suggest research strategies for using labor collections
• Suggest appropriate labor collections and reference resources
• Recommend the best databases to search for your research topic
• Answer your questions via email, phone or in-person
• Meet with you individually to hash out your topic or discuss research strategies
• Tell you about library services
• Provide hands-on experience in describing, arranging, preserving, and making accessible primary source material in labor history--ask about volunteering, interning, or signing as a  service learning student: cmcasey@uw.edu

For faculty, I can:

• Track down tricky citations
• Introduce your students to research tools and strategies via a workshop
• Create a webpage tailored to your class assignment
• Discuss ways to best incorporate research skills and library materials into your class assignments
• Meet with your students individually
• Bring in labor related collections from community members you have worked with or researched
• Tell you about library services
• Act as a liaison between you and the labor community to help you further your research

For labor union members, officers, and members of the public with labor-related collections I can:

• Work with you to transfer your records to the Labor Archives of Washington
• Give tours and presentations about the labor archives to your organization
• Give tours and presentations on how to use the labor collections to your organization
• Meet with you individually to hash out your topic or discuss research strategies
• Teach workshops on "How to Keep Union Records" to suggest records management strategies for your existing records and how to select and donate your inactive historic records of enduring value
• Tell you about the services provided by the Labor Archives of Washington State
• Help you members and communications officers to find archival materials to support their activities

Subject and class guides created by me to help you with your academic work: