An Intentionally Designed Internship Program
By Claire Du Laney, Wendy Guerra, and Lori Schwartz In 2020-2021, Hagel Archivist Lori Schwartz, Digital Initiatives Archivist Wendy Guerra, and Outreach Archivist Claire Du Laney at the University of …
TPS Fest 2022 – August 2, 3, and 4, 2022
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!
Notes from the Field is Seeking a New Associate Editor!
The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is seeking a new Associate Editor for Notes from the Field, a peer-reviewed blog that highlights practical lessons from the front lines of teaching with primary sources.
Explaining the value of primary source literacy – Webinar – April 28, 2022 – SAA-TPS Committee
When you begin to start your outreach for instruction, as an archivist do you feel that you have a hard time explaining primary source literacy? Are you sometimes at a …
“So these Lines may reach to future times”: Pandemic Teaching with John Davies’ Triumph of DEATH
By Nichole DeWall, Professor of English, McKendree University When I casually mentioned during my Fall 2020 undergraduate Shakespeare course that I’d written a dissertation on early modern plague writing, my …
Advantages and Affordances of Online Special Collections Instruction
By Rachel Duke and Rory Grennan, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries In Spring 2020, many special collections instructors immediately discovered the detriments of meeting learners online. Aside …
Ancient Art in the Archives: Studying Artifacts During the COVID-19 Crisis
By LaraAnn Canner, Curator of Music Special Collections at Old Dominion University Libraries I have been told in the past that archivists need to be jacks-of-all-trades within libraries. Never had …
Teaching with Artifacts: Virtual Instruction with Future Engineers
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.
Webinar Planning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using the Special Collections in Remote Learning
By Melissa Chim / Working from home during the pandemic has raised questions regarding the use of physical primary sources in a remote environment…
TPS Tech Tools Sandbox Sessions
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 …