Course Information
| Session |
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| Credits | 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs |
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| Registration dates | We accept registrations through the first week of classes, unless enrollment is full, and unless the class was canceled before it started due to low enrollment. |
Primary Source Pedagogy
$250.00
Dates: March 3 - March 30August 4 - August 31
Credits: 1.5 CEUs or 15 PDHs
This course is for anyone who feels unprepared to teach well with primary sources, especially:
- archivists or special collections librarians new to instruction
- instruction librarians unfamiliar with primary source literacy
This course will explore what “primary source” even means. It also assumes that they can be found everywhere — in museums, archives, or special collections; in circulating collections or subscription databases; on the open web, in private hands, or even in natural and built environments. A key text for this course will be the new Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy.
Students who successfully complete this course will gain confidence in their teaching by:
- recognizing what skills and expertise they bring to primary source pedagogy
- developing new conceptual frameworks for understanding primary sources
- discovering useful, trusted resources for teaching with primary sources
- mastering concepts of instructional design and active learning
- applying practical strategies for planning and facilitating learning experiences in a wide variety of library settings
This course can be taken as one of the courses in our eight-course Certificate in Library Instruction, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Course Description
This course is for anyone who feels unprepared to teach well with primary sources, especially:
- archivists or special collections librarians new to instruction
- instruction librarians unfamiliar with primary source literacy
This course will explore what “primary source” even means. It also assumes that they can be found everywhere — in museums, archives, or special collections; in circulating collections or subscription databases; on the open web, in private hands, or even in natural and built environments. A key text for this course will be the new Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy.
Students who successfully complete this course will gain confidence in their teaching by:
- recognizing what skills and expertise they bring to primary source pedagogy
- developing new conceptual frameworks for understanding primary sources
- discovering useful, trusted resources for teaching with primary sources
- mastering concepts of instructional design and active learning
- applying practical strategies for planning and facilitating learning experiences in a wide variety of library settings
This course can be taken as one of the courses in our eight-course Certificate in Library Instruction, but can be taken as a stand-alone course as well.
Robin M. Katz
Robin M. Katz is a librarian, archivist, and educator who works to connect people to primary sources in meaningful and innovative ways. She is currently the Primary Source Literacy Librarian at the University of California, Riverside, a position she crafted after serving on the joint task force that authored the new Primary Source Literacy Guidelines. She co-created TeachArchives.org based on a groundbreaking US Department of Education grant she led at Brooklyn Historical Society. She has spent over a decade in special collections public services after receiving her MLIS from Kent State University and her BA from Brandeis University.
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