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Guide · Sample excerpt

Your first week

Start with the shared handbook. It brings together the team's purpose, everyday practices, and the people who maintain them.

1. Get your bearings. Read the team overview and shared vocabulary.
2. Find the process. Follow the relevant procedure for your first task.
3. Understand the context. Read the decisions behind how the team works.

Procedure · Sample excerpt

Before sharing a revised guide

A consistent review makes guidance easier to follow and maintain.

1. Check the instructions against the current process and its source references.
2. Ask the designated owner to review the proposed changes.
3. Record what changed, who approved it, and when it should be reviewed again.

This describes an example team procedure; approval workflows belong to the derivative.

Decision record · Sample excerpt

Why we chose one shared handbook

Context

Guidance spread across several folders became difficult for new team members to follow.

Decision

Maintain one handbook that points to the relevant procedures and names their owners.

Revisit when

The team's responsibilities change or readers identify missing guidance.

Course guide · Sample excerpt

Learning to work with sources

This introductory collection helps learners ask useful questions, compare evidence, and explain how they reached a conclusion.

1. Begin with a question. Define what you want to understand.
2. Compare perspectives. Read an introductory account alongside a primary source.
3. Keep a record. Note the source, its context, and what remains uncertain.

Method · Sample excerpt

Document a literature review

A useful methods record allows the next reader to understand how the evidence was gathered.

1. Write down the question, scope, and inclusion criteria.
2. Record the sources searched, search terms, and dates.
3. Explain selection decisions and note gaps in the available evidence.

Store methods and approved reference material according to the research program's governance.

Reading collection · Sample excerpt

Three ways into a subject

Overview

A short introduction to the subject's main questions and vocabulary.

Primary source

An original document to examine in its historical or research context.

Discussion guide

Questions that help readers compare the sources and identify what they still need to learn.

Collection guide · Sample excerpt

A neighborhood through its records

This imagined collection brings together written accounts of a neighborhood's shared places and everyday life.

• Begin with the overview for the places and periods covered.
• Explore an account alongside its source and context.
• Follow the references to continue your research.

Local history · Fictional excerpt

The old reading room

The reading room began with a single shelf of donated books. Over time, neighbors added newspapers, handwritten indexes, and accounts of the streets around them.

The collection grew into a record of what people wanted to remember and what they hoped others would learn.

An original fictional passage, included only to illustrate a reading experience.

Research guide · Sample excerpt

Follow a place through time

1. Start with a place name and a period you want to understand.
2. Read the collection guide to learn what survives and what is missing.
3. Compare accounts and keep the source details with your notes.

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