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Spanning Boundaries To Identify Archival Literacy Competencies, Sharon A. Weiner, Sammie L. Morris, Lawrence J. Mykytiuk

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This paper is a report of a collaborative research project that identified the competencies undergraduate history majors should have related to finding and using archival materials. The boundary-spanning collaboration involved archivists, librarians, and history faculty.

Historians have long relied upon archives as essential source material, and recent studies confirmed the continued significance of archives to research in this field. However, there is no detailed listing of the archival research competencies that college history students should attain. Without a clearly defined list upon which history faculty, archivists, and library liaisons to history departments agree, teaching about archives research is difficult and …

Connections Newsletter Winter 2014, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Connections Newsletter

Table of Contents

• An Online Homecoming for UNLV Students: University Libraries Digitizes the Rebel Yell
• From the Dean
• UNLV Libraries Leads the Way on Preserving Nevada’s History with NEH Grant
• Students Taste the Power of Intellectual Freedom at the Banned Books Buffet
• K-12 Institute: Bringing UNLV and CCSD Educators Together
• A Treasure Trove for UNLV Grad Students Working in Special Collections During Summer
• Staff Spotlight: Michelle Light
• Project to Capture the History of the Jewish Community in Southern Nevada Begins