Description
Book SynopsisAn 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.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
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
