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Category: Notes from the Field

2022 / Notes from the Field / Practical How-To Series

Creating DIY Museum Audio Guides with Students

By Taylor Clement and Callie Smith In the spring of 2022, the Professional Writing program at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette began a collaboration with the on-campus Hilliard Art …

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Notes from the Field: Call for Reviewers

Notes from the Field, an extension of the Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective, seeks to establish a database of new peer reviewers for forthcoming publications. Notes from the Field …

2022 / Notes from the Field

Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Fall 2022

Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is now accepting submissions about teaching with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Public-Facing Scholarship and Outreach,” …

Notes from the Field / Practical How-To Series

Taking the Archival Show on the Road: A New Mexico Story

By Dylan McDonald. For cultural heritage institutions, partnerships are the keystone to sustained, effective, and vibrant outreach efforts. In this era of ongoing staffing shortages, budget challenges, and employee burnout, organizations should focus on collaborative efforts, whenever possible and prudent, as a viable way to accomplish their core mission.

2022 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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 …

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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.

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Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

“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 …

2021 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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 …

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Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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 …

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2021 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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.

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Samokishyn, Marta, and Jérémie LeBlanc. 2023. “Primary Source Instruction in Theological Libraries Through Rare Book Collections: Collaborative Initiative in Credit-Bearing Library Labs.” Atla Summary of Proceedings, December, 73–102. https://doi.org/10.31046/proceedings.2023.3395.
Withers, Clare, Carrie Donovan, Diana Dill, Jeanann Haas, and Berenika M. Webster. 2023. “Advancements in Primary Source Pedagogy: Catalysts for Collaboration, Context, and Change | Withers | RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.” RBM:  A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, & Cultural Heritage 24 (2): 112–28. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.5860/rbm.24.2.112.
Quinn, Alexa M., and Alexandria Hakim. 2023. “Straight to the Sources: Analyzing Elementary Preservice Teacher Planning for Inquiry.” The Journal of Social Studies Research, November, 23522798231206188. https://doi.org/10.1177/23522798231206187.

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