Answer the following questions regarding this online community archive: http://www.idaillinois.org/
1. For what purpose or purposes were these archives collected? What are the primary and secondary purposes of such a community archive? What are some indirect purposes that might not immediately occur to you? Identify why the community collects these specific materials? What is the organizing feature or the focus of the materials? Does the archive include one type of artifact or different types of artifacts?
2. What sorts of things could be learned about the community from such an archive? What questions could be answered using this specific archive?
3. Determine the primary and secondary audiences of this community archive. Who (directly or indirectly or both) could be affected by these materials? Who may be interested in consulting the archive for research purposes? What might a researcher learn from this archive? Who else might find the archive and its contents interesting or even entertaining?
4. After answering these questions about the selected archive, what conclusions can you draw about the community based on your answers to the above questions? Provide a description of the community archive and what it tells you about the community? Conclude your writing with any questions you still have remaining about the materials.
