Integrating Special & Digital Collections into the Classroom

We hope you enjoyed exploring ways in which Special Collections and Digital Collections can enrich your work in the classroom at the 2009 Instruction Retreat. 

Notes from the retreat

• Lynn Eaton presented classes that RBMSCL staff have worked with in 2008-2009.
• Lynn Eaton and Emily Daly presented sample lesson plans and final assignments from Keith Wilhite's WR20 courses. 
• Laura Clark Brown of UNC's Southern Historical Collection spoke about her teaching experiences with undergraduates and faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Readings & related resources

No Textbooks to Buy, an article by featured speaker Laura Clark Brown about the challenges and rewards of co-teaching a course entirely based upon primary sources.

Columbia's Digital Bridges Initiative, a case study of "connecting classroom study to curated digital collections."

In her blog post It's the collections that are special, NC State's Lisa Carter writes that "libraries must recognize that while the collections are special and even have special needs, the talents and skills needed to expose them are found library-wide."

The UNC Manuscripts Tutorial walks students through the process of identifying and using primary materials in their research.

The Association of Research Libraries has compiled a report and other resources on the topic of Special Collections within the Research Library:

• Press Release
• Full Report
• Find more background info in The ARL special collections initiative

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