Special collections often contribute to our research as scholars. How do we use them as teachers, and make them an active part of our undergraduate classrooms? This graduate student workshop will give participants a crash course in how to teach with special collections, using the Kislak Center’s special collections as its focal point. Potential topics include: teaching from vs. with the collections; learning from librarians; creative writing from the archives; developing independent research projects; and what to do when a library doesn’t have rare books from ‘your specialty.’

All graduate students are welcome. This event grows out of concerns in the English department, and so may be most useful to students in related fields.

Counts toward the CETLI Teaching Certificate.