Full Description
An ideal resource for cultural heritage professionals who teach with original materials, this book provides fresh, adaptable, and easy-to-implement primary source literacy exercises to improve their teaching and engage their students.
Special collections librarians and archivists in academic settings are often confronted with the challenge of teaching classes outside their personal area of expertise, with very little notice or guidance—as the authors of this book can attest. Using Primary Sources: Hands-On Instructional Exercises features 30 adaptable, hands-on exercises that special collections librarians, archivists, museum professionals, and teaching faculty can use in a multitude of instructional situations with K-12, undergraduate, graduate, and library school students.
The exercises teach lessons in both archival intelligence—such as building skills in using finding aids and locating primary sources—and artifactual literacy, such as building skills in interpretation and analysis of primary sources. Each exercise includes sections for audience, subject area, and materials used so that instructors can find customizable, easy-to-follow "recipes" to use regardless of personal experience and expertise. In addition, this consultable reference resource includes a bibliography of readings related to instruction in special collections, archives, and museum environments.
Contents
CONTENTS
Foreword by Elizabeth Yakel
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
SECTION 1: CLASSIC EXERCISE WITH A TWIST
Windows to the Past: Postcards and Visual Literacy
Joanne Archer
Approaching the Book as an Artifact
Kelli Hansen
Our School Song: Using Sound Recordings & Sheet Music to Explore Historical Music
Leah Hoblit and Lisa Sjoberg
Start to Finish: Learning the Primary Source Research Process in 50 Minutes
Maggie Kopp
Infinitely Adaptable: Using Objects to Promote Inquiry-Based Learning
Lauren Silver, Ph.D.
Peer Learning with Primary Sources
Heather Smedberg
Working Backwards: Starting with an Endnote to Teach Primary Source Research Skills
Jenny Swadosh
SECTION 2: TAKING IT FURTHER
Taking Sides: Using Debate to Understand Evidence and Bias in Primary Sources
Anne Bahde
Match Game: Pairing Primary Sources to Potential Research Topics
Anne Bahde
Shopping for The Medici: Student Collectors and Authentic Use
Jason Bocko
The Big and the Small of It: Engaging Large Groups with Small Details
Erika Boeckeler, Michelle Romero, and Amanda Rust
Quick Curation: Building Analytical Skills Through Context and Juxtaposition
Peter Carini
History Sleuths
Christine de Catanzaro, Wendy Hagenmaier, Mandi Johnson, and Jody Thompson
Reaching Back, Reaching Out: Innovation and Experimentation in the World of Special Collections
Lori Dekydtspotter and Cherry Williams
Exploring Personal Experience through Diaries and Memoirs
Erin Dix
The Ice House Mystery: Pairing Primary and Secondary Sources to Teach Place-based Research
Prudence Doherty
Finding Hidden Personal Stories in Legal and Financial Records
Julie Golia and Robin M. Katz
The Dating Game
Will Hansen
Prioritizing Privacy v. Access: Primary Sources in the Digital Age
Sean Heyliger and Juli McLoone
Book Illustration and Cultural Change: Reading Visual Images in Context
Barbara Hochman
Picturing the Past: Introducing Special Collections Research Through Photographs
Sarah Horowitz
Finding Fun with Finding Aids
Greg Kocken
Deconstructing Description: Teaching Archival Literacy through Finding Aids
Rebecca Larson-Troyer
Printing ABCs: A Hands-On Printmaking Activity for Children
Melissa Nykanen
Covered with Culture: Finding Meaning on a Stick
Jay Satterfield
Searching for Primary Sources: An Introduction to Using Special Collections Discovery Tools
Lisa Schoblasky and Autumn Mather
Building Books and Breaking them Down: Using Historic Materials to Teach Modern Preservation
Jennifer K. Sheehan
Exploring Artists' Books
Heather Smedberg
Engage those Senses! The Surrogate is Not Enough
Mattie Taormina
Judging a Book by Its Cover
Mattie Taormina
Conclusion: Assessing Student Learning
Bibliography
Index
