Teaching Undergraduates to Think Archivally

Nimer, Cory; Daines, J. Gordon

doi:10.1080/15332748.2012.680418

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“…21 Nimer and Daines created and teach a course to develop undergraduates' archival literacy skills, while Rick Ewig teaches critical thinking skills in his archival research methods course. 22 Germek and Lane teach undergraduate book history courses at Monmouth University and the University of Wyoming respectively. 23 Fall 2019 | Volume 20, Number 2…”

Section: Credit-bearing Courses In Academic Libraries Archives and mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections

Silva

McIntosh

2019

RBM

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Special collections in academic libraries provide rich learning environments for student engagement. This article describes the introduction of an independent study course by an academic library department as a high-impact educational practice supporting undergraduate research. Under the supervision of the faculty archivist, the student in this study was challenged to discover and research “gems,” unusual or significant items, on a topic of her choosing. She selected three works related to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, showcasing her research at the university’s Student Faculty Research Symposium and creating a library display as her final project. This case study explores background information and describes the course, its inception, and the student’s project. It includes a discussion of benefits and challenges, transferability, scalability, and the application of a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Limitations and further research are also included in this study.

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Section: Credit-bearing Courses In Academic Libraries Archives and mentioning

confidence: 99%

An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections

Silva

McIntosh

2019

RBM

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“…A significant body of the identified literature (26 papers) examined the educational role of archivists. The majority of these studies focused on academic libraries and academic archives (Johnson, 2006;Krause, 2008Krause, , 2010Nimer and Daines, 2012;Robyns, 2001;Wosh et al, 2007;Zhou, 2008). The educational role of the archivist included providing archival orientation to undergraduate students as well as instructional programs to facilitating the research process (Carini, 2009;Krause, 2010b;Pugh, 2005;Zhou, 2008).…”

Section: The Archivist As Educatormentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond preservation: investigating the roles of archivist

Vassilakaki

Moniarou-Papaconstantinou

2017

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Purpose This paper aims to identify through a systematic review the roles that archivists adopt in a changing archival landscape and to illustrate any similarities between the roles of archivist and librarians. Design/methodology/approach The systematic literature review approach was adopted for the purposes of this research. Specifically, peer-reviewed literature published in English between 2000 and 2015 was considered. The relevant papers were retrieved based on specific search terms run on related databases. Findings The analysis showed that the traditional roles of record-keeper and collection manager were still relevant, whereas new ones, namely, digital archivist, archivist as educator and dual archivist/librarian, started to prevail. The technological developments as well as the social and educational changes seemed to have affected the emergence of these new roles, whereas the need for collaboration and communication among archivists, librarians and researchers was evident in many roles, namely, archivist as educator, dual archivist/librarian and archivist as researcher. Originality/value This literature review explored the different roles that archivists adopt within their work context and not the archivists’ skills, duties and responsibilities.

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“…21 If this introduction happens at all, it is often conducted as a brief orientation session followed by show-andtell rather than an in-depth exploration of the collections. 22 While this superficial exposure is better than nothing, it does not actually teach students much about the purpose of archives or how the students might go about conducting primary source research on their own. The trend toward expanding one-time instructional sessions into a curriculum-based approach has been on the rise in recent years, in part thanks to Elizabeth Yakel and Deborah Torres's 2003 article, 23 which defined a set of "archival intelligences" patrons must develop to effectively conduct archival research.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The trend toward expanding one-time instructional sessions into a curriculum-based approach has been on the rise in recent years, in part thanks to Elizabeth Yakel and Deborah Torres's 2003 article, 23 which defined a set of "archival intelligences" patrons must develop to effectively conduct archival research. 24 Yakel and Torres interviewed twenty-eight archives and special collections patrons to determine a set of three distinct forms of knowledge required to work effectively with primary source materials. These forms of knowledge, which together the authors call "archival intelligence," include "1) knowledge of archival theory, practices and procedures; 2) strategies for reducing uncertainty and ambiguity when unstructured problems and ill-defined situations are the norm; 3) and intellective skills."…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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STEM Undergraduates and Archival Instruction: A Case Study at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

Anderberg¹

2015

The American Archivist

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STEM undergraduates are an underserved population in archival outreach and instruction. This case study, conducted at New York University's Polytechnic School of Engineering using the Poly Archives and Special Collections at Bern Dibner Library, aims to demonstrate the benefits of integrating archival research into the undergraduate STEM curriculum. Archivist and faculty collaboration during a semester-long course not only resulted in student gains in archival intelligence, but also allowed students to practice critical thinking, reasoning about uncertainty, and working collaboratively in teams, all competencies recognized as integral to engineering design and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology's guidelines for developing engineers for the twenty-first century.

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Teaching Undergraduates to Think Archivally

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An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections

An Independent Study Course by an Academic Library Department: Teaching with the Gems of Special Collections

Beyond preservation: investigating the roles of archivist

STEM Undergraduates and Archival Instruction: A Case Study at NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering

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