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2025 / Notes from the Field / Practical How-To Series

Teaching between Digitized and Physical Primary Sources

By Alexandra Wieland / In recent years, educators in archives and special collections have added online teaching to their instructional offerings. As educators, we are supported in this work by efforts to increase accessibility to holdings through digitization projects and programs.

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, …

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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 …

2023 / Notes from the Field / Reflective Practice Series / Uncategorized

Contextualizing the Collective Memories of Emerging Educators through Archival Curriculum Planning

By Stephanie-Renee Anckle Within the K-12 curriculum, a problematic portrayal of underrepresented groups has been noted (Banks, 1987; Kaomea, 2015). The ongoing, inaccurate representation of people of color within the …

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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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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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Analyzing Sources Related to Local Indigenous Groups

Submitted in 2016 by Samantha Crisp, Special Collections Librarian, Augustana College Introduction Originally used in the course Native Americans and their Interpreters (HIST336), this activity is designed as an introductory exercise …

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