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Categorization of Entries and Media

Entries and pieces of media in the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture have been tagged with various categories to facilitate browsing and searching. To make best use of the site, please keep these points in mind:

• Entries may be listed in more than one subject category. For example, a railroad developer may be listed in “Business, Commerce, and Industry” because he was a businessman; he could also be listed in “Transportation” because of his significance to the development of transportation in Arkansas.
• In general, the Encyclopedia categorizes entries in human terms rather than institutional terms. For example, the religions affiliations are titled and categorized as groups of people instead of entities: Methodists instead of Methodist Church or Methodism.
• Destinations and buildings are categorized as places instead of things. For example, a state park is a place, a hospital is a place, and a cemetery is a place.
• Businesses and industries are categorized as things.
• We assign time periods based on when the subject was at its peak. Many entries span more than one time period. In those cases, we have not assigned them to specific periods.

Search Tips

• The search engine will look for entries and media captions that include all of the keywords you select (blues Helena musician)
• If you are looking for results that include an exact phrase, put your search phrase in quotation marks (“Commonwealth College”)
• If you want to exclude results from your search, put a minus sign in front of the word you want to exclude (“University of Arkansas” –Fayetteville)
• You can also use an asterisk search for variations on words (university* will give you results for “university” and “universities”)
• When you choose to use the Advanced Search feature, you can limit which portions of the site are searched (entries only, media only, author names) By choosing from the drop-down category options, you can limit your search by subject, time period, entry type, race and ethnicity, or gender.

Site Features

• Photo of the Day features a piece of media from our galleries. Clicking "View Photo Gallery" will take you to the gallery associated with the subject category for the featured photo (a photo of Bill Clinton would take you to the photos in the Politics and Government category)
• This Day in Arkansas History features something that occurred on today’s date. If a related entry is available you can click “(more)” to go to a related entry.
• Each entry page includes a "bread crumb" trail at the top that shows the path you took to get to the entry. You can click on any part of the trail to go back to that portion of the site ( “Home / Browse / Ashmore, Harry Scott”)
• Clicking the "printable page" icon () prints a text-only version of the entry.
• Clicking the "email page" icon () opens an dialog box to send a copy of the entry you are viewing to someone else.
• Clicking the "resize text" icon () will make the text on the page larger or smaller.
• Clicking on the thumbnail version of the media in the right-hand column of entries will open a window with a full-size version of the photo, map, or document. Clicking on audio or video thumbnails will take you to a media player that will allow you to listen or view the media.
• Clicking the icon will take you to a lesson plan related to the entry.
• Entries include internal links that will take you to other entries on the website. You may also find other entries of interest under the in the sidebar column.

How to Cite an Entry

Chicago Manual of Style
Cobb, William H. s.v. “Commonwealth College.” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History
& Culture. http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=10
(accessed May 2, 2006).

MLA
Cobb, William H. “Commonwealth College.” The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History &
Culture. 21 Oct. 2004
< http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=10 >

APA
Cobb, William H. Commonwealth College. In The Encyclopedia of Arkansas History &
Culture. Retrieved October 21, 2004, from
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=10