Educational Programs: Innovative Practices for Archives and Special
Collections explores how archivists and special collections librarians
in organizations of different sizes and types have approached the
challenges in creating effective educational programs to prepare the
next generation of researchers and advocates for archives. The case
studies featured are: 1.Tablet and Codex, Side by Side: Pairing Rare
Books and E-Books in the Special Collections Classroom 2.Fells, Fans and
Fame: Acquiring a Collection of Personal Papers with the Goal of
Engaging Primary School Children 3.Student Curators in the Archives:
Class-Curated Exhibits in Academic Special Collections 4.A Win for All:
Cultural Organizations Working With Colleges of Education 5.The Archive
as Theory and Reality: Engaging with Students in Cultural and Critical
Studies 6.Make Way for Learning: Using Literary Papers to Engage
Elementary School Students 7.Archivists Teaching Teachers: The Archives
Education Institute and K-12 Outreach 8.Animating Archives: Embedding
Archival Materials (and Archivists) into Digital History Projects 9."A
Certain Kind of Seduction" Integrating Archival Research into a
First-Year Writing Curriculum 10.Not Just for Students: An Archives
Workshop for Faculty 11.Web Archiving as Gateway: Teaching K-12 Students
about Archival Concepts 12.Evocative Objects: Inspiring Art Students
with Archives 13.Documenting and Sharing Instruction Practices: The
story of TeachArchives.org These case studies show a range of audiences
and strategies, but all were selected because they demonstrate ideas
that could be transferred into many other settings. They can serve as
models, sources of inspiration, or starting points for new discussions.
This volume will be useful to those working in archives and special
collections as well as other cultural heritage organizations, and
provides ideas ranging from those that require long-term planning and
coordination to ones that could be more quickly implemented. The
chapters also provide students and educators in archives, library, and
public history graduate programs a resource for understanding the
varieties of issues related to creating and implementing educational
programs and how they can be addressed.
