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 …
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.
Case 1: Collaborating for Impact in Teaching with Primary Sources
by Samantha Crisp This case study discusses a collaboration between a special collections librarian, research and instruction librarian, and a history faculty member at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, …
Case 7: “What Is Your Title Today?” The Challenges and Rewards of Implementing an Internship/Independent Study Hybrid Course at the Valparaiso University Archives and Special Collections
by Rebecca Ostoyich and Kevin Ostoyich The case study describes a hybrid internship/independent study course that has been administered jointly by the Valparaiso University Archives and Special Collections (VUASC) and …
Case 6: The Archives as Classroom: A Primary Source Mini-Course
by Kayla Harris, Stephanie Shreffler, and Heidi Gauder Through a one-credit mini course at the University of Dayton taught by a group of librarians and archivists, undergraduate students were introduced …
Case 9: Seeing Through Risk in the Special Collections Classroom: A Case for Flexibility
by Marc Brodsky This case study involves a collaboration that took place between Virginia Tech’s Special Collections and University Archives and a first-year experience (FYE) class in the History department. …
Case 8: Success in the Long Term: Learning Objectives in a Semester-Long Research Course
by Cinda Nofziger and Emily Swenson This case study focuses on a collaboration between archivists, a faculty member, and students which aimed to provide students in an upper-level, research-intensive course …
Case 20: FYRE in Special Collections: Exploring Scientific History in a First-Year Research Experience Course
by Rachel Makarowski and Ginny Boehme Outside examinations of the history of science, special collections instruction traditionally caters to the humanities, leaving a notable gap of representation for and from …