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In With The Old: Encouraging Archives Use With Innovative Faculty Outreach, Kimberly Veliz, Ronald Rozzell

Kansas Library Association College and University Libraries Section Proceedings

In order to encourage archives usage, an instruction librarian and archivist at a small community college collaborated to design an interactive instruction session for faculty. The session was to use breakout boxes to demonstrate how to incorporate archival materials into classroom activities at an institution wide professional development workshop event. Plans for an in-person breakout box session were scrapped after the COVID-19 Omicron wave forced workshops online. After designing and carrying out an online archives introduction, the session was reconfigured back into an in-person session utilizing breakout boxes. Despite lower-than-expected attendance, the innovative outreach made faculty and staff aware of …

Digital Archival Literacy In The Classroom, Rebecca Fitzsimmons, Elliott Kuecker

Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library

Archival literacy has become a popular mode of literacy in the last ten years, given that archival research is not the exclusive purview of historians. Given the amount of open collections and exhibits, the possibility of teaching archival literacy skills is more accessible than ever. Importantly, archival literacy asks us to critically read against the common narrative that archival objects are pure evidence and archivists are neutral agents. Our presentation describes the importance of digital archival literacy and provides examples of implementation in classes, ad hoc workshops, and community engagement. We emphasize that all knowledge is a synthesis of various …

2022 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference, Academic Affairs

Spring Great Expectation Faculty Conference

The 2022 Great Expectations Spring Faculty Conference featured a talk about renewal in file drawers facilitated by Alison Prindle (Professor Emerita of English, INST Chair 1987-1994) and Beth Daugherty (Professor Emerita of English, INST Chair 1994-2000).

After the talk, various groups and departments offered programs that talked about the experiences of the groups, the use of Open Education Resources, and integrating ecological knowledge into the curriculum. The day finished out with a discussion of the 2022-2023 common book, What The Eyes Don't See by Mona Hanna-Attisha.

Archiving Feminist Truth In Trump’S Wake Of Lies, Julie Shayne

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

This article is about an assignment I do in one of my Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies social movement classes. I revised the assignment the first time teaching the class after Trump lost the 2020 election. For the assignment, students work in groups to research local feminist and gender justice organizations and deposit all of their original materials – recordings, photos, flyers, etc. – into a digital, open access archive I co-created several years ago with librarians and staff on my campus. In 2021 I had my students do the “post-Trump” edition where they researched local organizations about how their …

Too Taboo For You? - Questions, Lessons, And Strategies For Engaging Students With Challenging Materials, Blake Spitz

University Libraries Presentations Series

This talk will briefly present experiences of, and strategies for, teaching with challenging topics and materials in archives. In recognizing that our collections include (or have archival silences around) challenging, controversial, and even disturbing topics, when and why do we decide to share and prioritize these records, and how do we present and contextualize them for students? I will present a few case studies from my work presenting difficult records and topics to undergraduates, and some of my professional training and growth in these areas. I would love to start a dialogue, and hear from others in reaction to my, …

Combining Active Learning Exercises, Blake Spitz

University Libraries Presentations Series

This lightning talk offers an example of combining active learning exercises to achieve multiple learning outcomes (some simple, such as resource identification, and some more complex, such as understanding archival silences and power dynamics in research access). The class was in Special Collections, but the active learning exercises – one a version of “speed-dating,” and the other a version of exhibit or bibliography curation – could easily be used in a more general library information literacy class. These activities are not new, but I had never combined them in this way before, and I have found, as a result, that …

Preserving The Archives In The 21st Century Classroom: Designing History Classes Around Primary Source Research., Julie Harper Pace

Georgia Educational Researcher

This article details an experiment in an 11^th and 12^th grade 3-week intensive course, the Science and History of Contagious Disease. The course was an interdisciplinary survey of how diseases are spread along with an examination of social responses. Although both lecture and discussion based, the course revolved primary around a trip in which we led approximately 22 students through archival research in the City of Savannah Municipal Archives on the Yellow Fever epidemics of 1820, 1854, and 1876. The article describes the numerous advantages of archival work, from direct contact with rare and unique primary sources to …

Using Historical Court Cases To Explore Prohibition, Kristina Maldre

The Councilor: A National Journal of the Social Studies

The intrigue of prohibition tales and the intricacy of court records present a unique opportunity for classroom use. Integrating historic court records into your social studies curriculum can help strengthen students’ literacy skill set and build historical understanding of social tensions and cultural conflicts of the 1920s.

Articulating Digital Archival Practice Within Writing Program Administration: A Theoretical Framework, Amanda Girard

Dissertations, Master's Theses and Master's Reports

Throughout Writing Program Administration scholarship there has been a clear call for archivization and archival work. This dissertation project takes an interdisciplinary approach to digital archival practices for Writing Program Administrators to consider and employ in their home institutions. While I recognize that WPAs are not typically identified as “archivists,” I situate the digital archive within the digital humanities as an interdisciplinary, collaborative project and offer suggestions that lead to recommendations for making an institutional archive. I review archival practice in order to justify the digital archive as an appropriate vehicle for WPAs’ work. Further, I argue that the digital …

Hidden Figures Class Museum Project, Amanda Benigni, Anna Smith

Museum Assignments

In the secondary English/Language Arts classroom, inquiry-based learning is most often adopted as a method for teaching literary analysis. But teachers too often overlook the fact that literary analysis is not the only means of facilitating inquiry-based learning. Research, particularly archival research, can provide students with yet another opportunity for inquiry and reflective thinking.

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (both the mass-market paperback and the Young Reader's Edition), is a text that is especially well-suited to teaching archival research skills to young learners, as it is itself the product of a rigorous, thoughtful, and purposeful research project conducted by …

Treasure Hunt Without A Map: Archival Research At The University Of Pennsylvania, Meghan Strong

English Independent Study Projects

Under the supervision of Meredith Goldsmith in the English Department, I spent this semester developing archival research projects for lower level students in the humanities. My project corresponded with the aims of the Council for Undergraduate Research, which works to develop undergraduate research skills throughout the disciplines. The Kislak Center is a nearby resource that has the potential to provide students with opportunities to develop crucial research skills while discovering little pieces of history that are hidden away in the archives. The final exercises presented here focus on the subjects of Walt Whitman, Marian Anderson, and Michel de Montaigne.

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

Libraries Faculty and Staff Presentations

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 …

Investigating Primary Source Literacy, Joanne Archer, Ann Hanlon, Jennie A. Levine

Library Faculty Research and Publications

Primary source research requires students to acquire specialized research skills. This paper presents results from a user study testing the effectiveness of a Web guide designed to convey the concepts behind “primary source literacy”. The study also evaluated students’ strengths and weaknesses when conducting primary source research.

Mount St. Mary's College In Los Angeles: Interterm 1980, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1979-1980 - Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Summer Programs At Mount St. Mary's College In Los Angeles: 1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount Saint Mary's College, Los Angeles: 1978-1980 - General Information, Associate Degree Program, Bachelors Degree Programs, Graduate Degree Programs, Courses Of Instruction..., Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount Saint Mary's College: Interterm Bulletin, January 2-26, 1979, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College, Interterm 1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1977-1978 - Schedule Of Classes For The Fall & Spring On The Chalon Campus, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1977-1978 - Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College Interterm 1977, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog Supplement - [1976 Fall Session] Continuing Education At The Mount, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1976 - Interterm, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1976-1978, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1975-1976 Supplement, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Mount St. Mary's College: Summer Session 1974, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

General Studies Program, Mount Saint Mary's College 1974-75, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

American Studies, Mount St. Mary's College 1974-75, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.

Msmc Course Catalog 1974-1976, Msmc Staff, Msmc Registrar

Course Catalogs

Mount Saint Mary's College course catalogs are annual or biannual publications with supplements. MSMC course catalogs describe full or limited academic programs, student services, procedures, and requirements. Included in full catalogs are descriptions of degrees and academic programs, facilities, and student life.