By and For the Teaching with Primary Sources Community
By Brooke Guthrie / Instruction sessions with artifacts are hands-on, interactive, and some of my favorite sessions to teach. At Duke University’s Rubenstein Library, where I work with the History of Medicine Collections, artifacts are used alongside rare books, manuscripts, and more in both undergraduate and graduate instruction.
By Melissa Chim / Working from home during the pandemic has raised questions regarding the use of physical primary sources in a remote environment…
Keep visiting this page for updates on what tools we’ll be practicing with next: https://bitly.com/TPSSANDBOX What’s a TPS Sandbox session? With the help of a session facilitator, we’re exploring some …
RBMS’s Instruction and Outreach Committee’s Outreach Toolkit Subcommittee offers the following suggestions to help move the community toward a common set of goals for thinking about how to ethically teach …
Assessment Panel and Open Discussion sponsored by the SAA-TPS committee on Monday, July 19, 2021 from 2:00-3:30pm ET. Thank you to all the presenters for sharing their slides and the …
By Marsha Taichman / The Artists’ Books Collection at the Fine Arts Library (FAL) at Cornell University is fairly unique, as it is a teaching collection housed in the open stacks of the library. This means that anyone who comes into the library can go to the shelves in the reference section of the library, take the books, envelopes, and boxes of books off of the shelves and open them up, flipping through pages, pulling tabs, and unfolding fold-outs.
Do you Teach with Primary Sources, or want share and learn with other like-minded people with all levels and types of experience? Come join your colleagues for an informative and fun day, with a variety of attendee-driven conversations, covering all aspects of Teaching with Primary Sources!
By Ron McColl / The pandemic and the institutional mandates accompanying it have posed unique challenges for special collections librarians and archivists who teach with primary sources. At West Chester University Libraries Special Collections, our initial plans to host smaller classes and ensure safe handling practices were rendered moot when students did not return to campus in the fall.
By Michaela Ullmann / In my role as Instruction Coordinator for Special Collections at the USC Libraries, I oversee our Primary Source Literacy Instruction Program through which we currently teach between 100 and 150 instruction sessions annually.
By Blake Spitz / Teaching primary source analysis is a major component of my job as an archivist and educator and often the focus of one-shot instruction for undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I love discussing analytic and emotional frameworks for engaging primary sources because I believe those encounters are potent moments, as each new person’s reaction and dialogue with a source is unique to them.