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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

Disposability, Precarity, and Institutional Memory in the University Archives

By Sam King-Shaw In the spring of 2022, the focus of my teaching assistantship was to help the chair of my department, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, in organizing a conference to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Women’s Studies College at the University at Buffalo (UB).

2024 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

Curating an Archival Internship for the Undergraduate Cultural Heritage Experience

By Zoe Shelby When arriving at McDaniel College’s Esther Prangley Rice Gallery, patrons experience the main space by viewing contemporary art in circulating exhibitions. However, visitors rarely notice the collection …

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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 …

2023 / Notes from the Field / Practical How-To Series / Uncategorized

Engaging Teachers and Students with the Asian American Education Project’s Primary Sources and Multimedia Lesson Plans

By Ray Pun During July 2023, I served as an instructor for a master’s seminar focused on educational research methods within the field of education. My group of six graduate …

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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 …

Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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 …

2023 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series

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 …

Case Studies / SAA TWPS Case Studies

Case 23: More Than Recipes: Enriching a Campus Common Read with Historical Cookbooks

by Kristen J. Nyitray and Christine Fena In fall 2021, Kristen Nyitray, the director of Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) and UniversityArchivist at Stony Brook University Libraries (SBUL), and …

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Han, Ruohua, and Natalie Elward. 2026. “Teaching through Engagement: Integrating Primary Source Literacy Instruction into Digital Archival Exhibits.” Conference Presentation. SAA Research Forum, July 8. https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/1.1.4_han_elward_slides.pdf.
Hosseininasab, Shima, Virginia Ferris, and Burak Erdim. 2026. “Unpacking Architectural Drawing Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy Approach to Architecture Collections.” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies 13 (1). https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/jcas/vol13/iss1/13.

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