Free Midwest Archives Conference Presentation:
How to
Google for Primary Sources: Teaching users/students
to find and
evaluate archives remotely.
Presenter: Robin M. Katz
Date and Time: Tuesday,
February 2, 1-2:30 Central
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_DbEOiklHSSaZzeUQ1jM30A
Don’t
just give the same old demos on your repository’s discovery tools or digital
collections. Instead, think beyond your own archive and learn to expertly teach
your key audiences to find and evaluate primary sources on the open web! All
they’ll need is an internet connection.
Teach researchers to
identify useful and credible materials on any topic (even ones you are not
familiar with!). You’ll leave better able to frame primary sources on the
internet, and more confident in designing and leading hands-on activities over
Zoom.
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 Teaching 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 museums, academic libraries, and
special collections after receiving her MLIS from Kent State University and her
BA from Brandeis University.
Questions: please contact Amy Bishop, Education Committee Co-chair,
at aebishop@iastate.edu.
Carrie Schwier (she/her/hers)
Outreach and Public Services Archivist
Indiana University Archives
1320 E. 10th Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405
https://libraries.indiana.edu/archives
812-855-3322
