Reminder that the March 30 deadline for submissions is just around the
corner:
Calling all Special Collections Librarians, Archivists and Museum
Professionals Who
Teach!
We seek submissions of innovative, hands-on classroom exercises utilizing
primary
sources for an upcoming Libraries Unlimited publication. The forthcoming
book will
provide cultural heritage professionals with adaptable, template-based class
exercises - think of these as recipes that can be reused as is, or
customized for
multiple situations. We solicit your easy-to-adapt, creative exercises
that includes
a title, 2-5 learning objectives, intended audience,
collections/materials/
mechanics or
activity, and any assessment you?ve done. We seek your submission by
MARCH 30,
2013.
The exercises we want to include will teach lessons in "artifactual
literacy" and/or
"archival intelligence." Artifactual literacy refers to skills needed to
interpret
and analyze primary sources, including concepts such as: evaluating
authenticity,
understanding historical contextualization, identifying bias,
understanding the
physical object, and deducing original audience and purpose. Archival
intelligence
refers to skills needed to use archives and special collections, such as:
finding
aid usage, understanding what kinds of materials are held in archives and
special
collections, physical use and handling of collections, and searching for
primary
sources.
Exercises making use of any source types are welcome, including rare
books, maps,
manuscripts, ephemera, born digital, and even the unusual types we know
you are
working with (video games, natural history specimens, models, blueprints,
comic
books, graphic novels, LPs, floppy disks and hard drives). The exercises
may focus
on teaching undergraduates or graduate students, or may be geared toward
public
outreach events, educating donors, our peers, and/or administrators. We
want your
creative and inventive exercises for K-12 class visits as well.
Co-editors Anne Bahde (Oregon State University), Heather Smedberg (UC San
Diego),
and Mattie Taormina (Stanford University) look forward to receiving your
submissions. Please submit your exercise via our web form by MARCH 30, 2013:
http://tinyurl.com/8h6dr6o
We know you're doing wonderful things with students, and this is a great
opportunity
to share what you've been doing with colleagues around the country.
Sincerely,
Anne Bahde (anne.bahde@oregonstate.edu)
Heather Smedberg (hsmedberg@ucsd.edu)
Mattie Taormina (taormina@stanford.edu)
Co-Editors, Using Primary Sources: Hands-On Instructional Exercises,
Libraries Unlimited, to be published 2014
