jump start your teaching and research in special collections
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Overview of the Special Collections and Rare Book department at the University of Missouri and strategies for using the collections in teaching and research.TRANSCRIPT
Jumpstart Your Teaching and Research in
Special Collections401 ELLIS L IBRARY
H T T P://L I BRARY.MI SSOURI .EDU/SPECI ALCOLLECTIONS/
Why use Special Collections in yourteaching and research?
“Undergraduates need to become an active part of the audience for research. In a setting in which inquiry is prized, every course in an undergraduate curriculum should provide an opportunity for a student to succeed through discovery-based methods. … In the humanities, undergraduates should have the opportunity to work in primary materials, perhaps linked to their professors’ research projects.”
The Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. 2008. Reinventing Undergraduate Education: A Blueprint for America’s Research Universities, 17.
Why use Special Collections in your teaching and research?
Learning requires trust in the process of discovery.University of Missouri, Core Values Statement, http://www.missouri.edu/about/values.php
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We can make it easy for you.
Strong and diverse collections
Experienced and knowledgeable staff
A wide range of instruction services
Support for your curriculum and objectives
Collection Strengths
Collection Statistics
Over 90,000 titles, around 1,000 original works of art, 200+ linear feet of processed archival materials, 8 million microforms
Most materials are for in-house use only, but some can be checked out.
Collections are open to all users – the only qualification is a photo ID.
How to find stuff: MERLIN
http://laurel.lso.missouri.edu/search/Y
How to find stuff: the Special Collections Web site
http://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/
Okay, I can find it. Now what?
Start with your goals.What are your learning objectives?
What do you want your students to get out of this session?
How will this session fit with the rest of your course?
Contact [email protected]
(573) 882-0076
Open Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.
No appointment needed for research!
Submit an instruction request form to schedule a class.
http://library.missouri.edu/specialcollections/use/classes/request/
Give them an assignment.Creative works
◦ Creative nonfiction
◦ Class exhibit
◦ Artists’ books / comic books
Short Writing Assignments◦ Meet the Class of 1915
◦ The Changing City
◦ Nineteenth-Century Cookbook Analysis
Reflection/Observation Activities◦ Artists’ Books
◦ Medieval Manuscripts
Information Literacy Worksheet
More Ideas!
History, and much more…Theatre Scholarship
Italian Civilization
Letterpress and the Book Arts
Medieval and Early Modern Convents
Anatomy, Zoology and Physiology
Information and Student Success
History of Typography
Introduction to Visual Culture
History of Western Dress
History of Modern Engineering
Beginning Latin
Color Theory
Biological Sciences / Botany
Philosophy
Modern European History
Introduction to German Literature
American History since 1865
Medieval French
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
Lots more information online!Check out our Libguide:
http://libraryguides.missouri.edu/speccollinstruction
Find us online.
@MUSpecColl
Thanks! Questions?Kelli Hansen
Print Collections Librarian
(573) 882-3755
@BiblioKelli