Gregory J Kocken, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire:
Do we include cataloguing as part of outreach? Is everything we do outreach?
Greg Johnson – introducing students to archives & special collections, college and research libraries Vol 13 no 2 2006 92
Direct outreach to students is ineffective. Promote primary source research as developing critical thinking – to faculty.
Instead of traditional model of developing courses/assignments – which is time and energy intensive – use an innovative model e.g.
Web 2.0 – facebook profile has 300+ friends in 5 years. Get memories from alumni as comments under stories.
Mini grants - $500-$3000 – ask faculty to submit applications to the archive for how they can use the archive in the classroom
Email and brochure are still important – but brochures don’t achieve anything sitting in the archive.
Sarah C Jane, University College Falmouth and University of Exeter Cornwall campus:
Reading the past/writing thefuture. Out of the box creative writing project – http://outofthebox.falmouth.ac.uk/
Internally funded – to assess the value of using archives in creating writing. Aims to influence development in pedagogy in creative writing and archives. Aimed at 2nd year undergrad screenwriting students. Sessions were being run already but the money gave time to evaluate.
COP – community of practice – group of people who share concern or passion and leard to do it better together. University and archive are separate COPs.
Evidence – articulate the value of what we do. Students made personal meaning map for what archives mean to them at start and end of project. By the end the stereotypes had gone and new insights emerged. Like that archives are cold!
Worked in partnership with local record office and this meant message were reinforced. Gave the students the opportunity to see different types of records and not think of it as just a university thing.
Need to plant the seed early on – initial session in first year, build on in 2nd year.
Reject Guest Star status. Try to be embedded not optional. Optional to undergrads means non-essential.
Forget dust, think information. Associate archives with e.g. 1980s, show relevance.
Giordana Mecagni, Centre for the History of Medicine, Harvard:
Many Happy Returns ed Larry J Hackman
Most decision are made on merit by well-intentioned decision makers. Need to influence them! Advocacy is long-term. Best advocate is an effective service with demonstrable results.
Those who hold the evidence make the history – Jill Lepore. Tap into academics desire for immortality – if you give us your papers you will become part of history.
Produced leaflet advising faculty what kind of papers they’d like to acquire.
Inform community what you’re doing with their collections – helps promote importance of archives to a community who might not have much experience of them.
Legacy of memory – identity and decision-making.
Staff finds on blog – hey, look at this cool thing!
Hits to blog quadruple when a newsletter is sent out.
Questions for this session:
York University – doctoral fellowship for phd students at any university. Gives faculty bragging rights at luring students to them but hard to promote. Also play-writing contest for undergrads – have to visit archive.
Harvard – summer fellowship for undergrads to research.
Comments in difference between uk donors (archives) and US (money!).
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