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 …
By and For the Teaching with Primary Sources Community
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is now accepting blog post submissions about teaching with primary sources for two series of peer-reviewed blog posts!
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.
The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Collective is seeking a new Associate Editor for the Notes from the Field blog. Notes from the Field is a peer-reviewed blog that highlights …