Engaging undergraduates in primary source research / edited by Lijuan Xu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Xu, Lijuan, editor.

Series:

Innovations in information literacy

Innovations in information literacy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information literacy--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States--Case studies.

Information literacy.

Academic libraries--Relations with faculty and curriculum--United States--Case studies.

Academic libraries.

Academic libraries--Relations with faculty and curriculum.

Information literacy--Study and teaching (Higher).

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xv, 136 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"This book guides faculty members and librarians in creating engaging learning experiences with primary sources. Chapters coauthored by librarians and faculty partners provide examples of exercises and assignments in which students engage with primary sources, including both digital and physical materials as well as non-English language materials"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Teaching Power and Storytelling through Zines / Katherine L. Curtis

2. Using First-Person Accounts to Bring Colonialism Home / Miriam Intrator

3. Imagining the Sonic Past: Using Primary Sources to Understand Music Making in the Early Modern Period / Stephanie Gunst

4. Creating Lesson Plans on Local History / Susan Eckelmann Berghel

5. Developing an Open Primary Source Reader on Gender and Sexuality / Megan Mulder

6. The City as a Learning Lab: Using Historical Maps and Walking Seminars to Anchor Place-Based Research / Jason A. Montgomery

7. Mapping Tombstone Iconography as Data / Jon Kay

8. Materiality, Research, and Digital Interpretation: Annotating Daily Life in Medieval and Early Modern China / Jillian Sparks

9. Tracing Environmental Legislative History in the United States / Andrea Armstrong

10. Contextualizing Scientific Primary Research for Different Audiences / Melody Diehl Detar.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Engaging undergraduates in primary source research

ISBN:

9781538138915

1538138913

9781538138922

1538138921

OCLC:

1246726477

Publisher Number:

99988448379