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From: Mulder, Megan <mulder(a)wfu.edu>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Are you looking for new ideas on how to use special collections
materials in a classroom setting? Would you like to share ideas on ways
to interest faculty, engage students, and integrate the resources of
your collection into the college (or other) curriculum?
If so, please consider adding your name to a petition to form a new ACRL
Interest Group on Teaching Strategies for Special Collections
Professionals. Official description is as follows:
>> The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for librarians and
archivists to share ideas and information about using special
collections materials in classroom instruction; to promote discussion
about innovative strategies for integrating primary source materials
into college and university curricula; and to begin the process of
developing guidelines and best practices for special collections
instruction.
This Interest Group had its genesis in a 2009 RBMS preconference
workshop entitled Beyond the Show and Tell: Teaching Strategies for
Special Collections Professionals. Participants in this workshop
expressed a desire to create an organized group that could continue
discussing issues brought up in the workshop session. There is currently
no group within RBMS or ACRL that addresses specifically the issues of
integrating primary source materials into the classroom and
curriculum.<<
We need a few more ALA member signatures to get this group off the
ground. If you're interested, contact Megan Mulder (mulder(a)wfu.edu) for
more information.
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Megan Mulder
Special Collections Librarian/History Dept. Liaison
Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
ph. 336.758.5091
mulder(a)wfu.edu