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Tag: archival literacy

Topic: Archival Literacy

2025 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Integrating Primary Source Research in Collective Syllabus Design: A Model for “Play” in the Archives

By Elizabeth Coen and Mary Manning In the winter of 2023, I (Elizabeth Coen) partnered with my colleagues in the University of Houston Libraries, Mary Manning (Performing Arts Curator) and …

2025 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Tales Out of School: Special Collection Instruction in Middle School Field Trips

By Clare Starkey, Haley Lykins, and Kelli Hansen Introduction The University of Missouri’s division of Special Collections holds over 100,000 items, dating from the eighth century to the modern era, …

Three undergraduate students bend over and fill out Bingo sheets related to collections materials with pencil.
2024 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Utilizing Student-Negotiated Curriculum for Archival Internships

By Victoria Jones Last year, I had the opportunity to join a community of practice that focused on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SOTL) through Florida Gulf Coast University’s …

2024 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Exploring Moments in Time

By Allison Rial When I arrived on Augustana College’s campus last year, I had no idea my college contained a “mini museum” within the walls of its library. In fact, …

Map of Atlanta's neighborhoods—black outline of map on yellowed background
2024 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series / Uncategorized

Primary Source Instruction: Accessibility through Resources from the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library

By Margaret Holloway Developing strong research skills has and continues to be the most in-demand need for my students who are mostly undergraduate freshman—more specifically, I want to develop instruction …

Jennifer Olguin guides 3 students referencing collections materials from a half Hollinger document box at a table in the Archives Reading Room.
2023 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

One-shot Instructional Sessions and Teaching with Community Based Archives

By Jennifer Olguin New Mexico State University (NMSU) Archives and Special Collections (ASC) is situated uniquely in the southern New Mexico community of Las Cruces, just 40 miles from the …

Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Teaching Asia through Touching Archives

By Shu Wan Teaching with primary sources is challenging for American college instructors of Asian history and culture. US History teachers could easily arrange class visits to special collections in …

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 …

Antique books lined up on two shelves
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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