K-12 Instruction and Digital Access to Archival Materials

Lyons, Matthew N.

doi:10.1300/j201v01n01_03

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“…Digital access for K-12 students has benefits for archives as well as educators and students. It reduces wear and tear on original records, doesn't require that archives staff take on the task of interacting with visitors, and can provide a readily demonstrable way that archives serve their community, helping to justify continued funding (Lyons, 2002).…”

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In spite of these advantages, there are some disadvantages to the use of digital collections. Hyperlinks break and digital archival management systems quickly become outdated; large collections might be difficult for users to navigate (Lyons, 2002). Using digitized versions of documents often decontextualizes them (Huntley, 2013;Lyons, 2002).…”

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hyperlinks break and digital archival management systems quickly become outdated; large collections might be difficult for users to navigate (Lyons, 2002). Using digitized versions of documents often decontextualizes them (Huntley, 2013;Lyons, 2002). Students, especially elementary school students, might have difficulty understanding the document as a physical object if the digital surrogate is the only version they experience.…”

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, digitized collections are only an option for schools with the technology to use them. Broadband access and current technology are still not guaranteed in public schools, and this presents an equity issue when archives and special collections are considering how best to serve their communities (Lyons, 2002).…”

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the years since Gilliland-Swetland's (1998) research, many archives and special collections libraries have incorporated outreach into their digitization projects. The National Archives and Records Administration website includes both digitized records and lesson plans to accompany them; the Library of Congress provides similar resources via its American Memory website and Teachers page (Hendry, 2007;Lyons, 2002). Lyons (2002) reviewed both of these websites, as well as some state and university archives' digital collections, and compared their historiographical and pedagogical approaches.…”

Section: Examples Of Digital Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Archives and Special Collections in K-12 Instruction

Hirsh¹

2020

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With the publication of Studies in Historical Method in 1896, Mary Sheldon Barnes introduced the “Source Method” of teaching history to secondary educators (Cherry, 2010). In this method, students investigate and develop an understanding of history by interacting with primary sources, documents generated in the period of history students are studying. It was not until 1986, however, that a work in the literature of archives articulated the potential for collaboration between archivists and K-12 educators, when Ken Osborne asserted, “if archives are to realize anything like their educational potential, there will have to be a good deal of joint planning and consultation between archivists and educators” (1986, p. 28).Over the past thirty years, many cultural heritage organizations, including state archives, the Library of Congress, and special collections library members of American Research Libraries have undertaken K-12 outreach activities (Cherry, 2010; Visser, 2006). Such activities can serve not only as educational outreach but also advocacy opportunities for archives as institutions and archivists as a profession (Dickson & Gorzalski, 2013). This literature review examines archival and special collections outreach for the K-12 audience, providing a rationale and identifying opportunities for such outreach, describing the current landscape of digital K-12 archival outreach projects, offering examples of non-digital K-12 outreach projects, highlighting projects that exemplify integrated and collaborative approaches, and comparing proposed models for future outreach projects

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Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Digital Archival Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Examples Of Digital Outreach Projectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Archives and Special Collections in K-12 Instruction

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2020

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Finding aid as interface? Enhancing K‐12 access to digitized cultural heritage resources through adaptive systems technology: An exploratory study

Besser

Afnan-Manns

Stieber

et al. 2003

Proc of Assoc for Info

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To what extent must diverse users adapt themselves to singular one‐interface systems, and in what ways does this impede access and use? In a perfect world of adaptive systems, backend architecture structuring digital information would be accessible through multiple user interfaces that support the literacy levels, technological capabilities and other characteristics of different user groups. Collaborating with the California Digital Library, usability testing was conducted with 4th and 12th graders to compare the effectiveness of an existing finding aid‐based interface with a newly developed prototype interfaco in retrieving cultural heritage information. Findings inform the growing number of efforts by cultural heritage communities—including libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations—to create broader access to their rich resources through digitization.

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