Keywords
primary sources, digital primary sources, education, librarians
Abstract
Primary source literacy continues to be a priority for academic institutions. A growing subtopic is digital primary sources and their unique role in pedagogy. Digital primary sources have the capacity to represent more diverse voices, and their digital nature provides greater accessibility to new and existing user populations who cannot always come to the reading room. Digital primary sources can better meet a variety of needs through ADA-compliant transcription, 24/7 access, portability, and extensibility. With that vision in mind, these projects and materials present their own challenges to archivists, librarians, and other instructors seeking to expand these items’ curricular use. At Brigham Young University, we recently completed a study of our faculty's current uses of digital primary sources in their pedagogy. Faculty described a range of current practices and formats. We also asked them to describe desired functionalities or future collections. We will describe our findings and discuss our plans to use this data to inform our selection of a new digital asset management system to help our faculty better utilize our digitized special collections in their classes.
Original Publication Citation
Memory, Lindsey, Wiederhold, Rebecca A., Beazer, Abby, and Seppi, Greg, “Cultivating a Digital Environment to Support Primary Source Instruction.” Presented at the annual conference of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries, Costa Mesa, California, June 27, 2024.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Memory, Lindsey; Wiederhold, Rebecca A.; Beazer, Abby; and Seppi, Gregory K., "Cultivating a Digital Environment to Support Primary Source Instruction" (2024). Faculty Publications. 7385.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/7385
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2024-06-27
Language
English
College
Harold B. Lee Library
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