Learning to Teach: Theory and Practice
By Anna Holmes When I started my journey into librarianship, I had no idea that I would end up where I am today. I was convinced I wanted to work …
Career-Driven Internship Design for Small Academic Archives
By Kyle Neill Between intimidating backlogs, student researchers, genealogists, accommodating classes, and balancing administration requests, archivists have a lot to keep pace with. As the majority of archival institutions are …
Call for Contributions to Notes from the Field: Spring 2023
Notes from the Field, a publication of the TPS Collective, is accepting submissions about teaching with primary sources for three series of peer-reviewed blog posts: “Public-Facing Scholarship and Outreach,” “Teaching …
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 …
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,” …
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 …
“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.