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These guidelines articulate the range of knowledge, skills, and abilities required to effectively use primary sources. While the primary audience for this document is librarians, archivists, teaching faculty, and others working with college and university students, the guidelines have been written to be sufficiently flexible for use in K-12 and in general public settings as well. The guidelines articulate crucial skills for navigating the complexity of primary sources and codify best practices for utilizing these materials.

Do you have an idea for a digital project for your research, teaching, or publication and wondering how to take the next step? Are you interested in connecting with others who share an interest in digital scholarship? The University Libraries’ staff and faculty are equipped to offer consultation and, in some cases, collaboration on a variety of needs.

Object-based learning (OBL) is a student-centered learning approach that uses objects to create a more profound learning experience. These objects can include artworks, artifacts, archival materials, or digital representations of unique objects. Students typically work closely with these objects, which in turn stimulates interest in acquiring and applying knowledge to other contexts both in and out of the classroom.

Based on an award-winning project at Brooklyn Historical Society, TeachArchives.org shares our teaching philosophy and findings with a global audience of instructors, administrators, librarians, archivists, and museum educators.

This report documents the current state of digital primary source instruction through a literature review, survey data analysis, and practitioner interviews. In partnership with JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, examines the digital research challenges faced by librarians and faculty instructors.