UNCSA Archives

The UNCSA Archives provides hands-on learning experiences with primary source materials based on a variety of topics, including UNCSA's institutional and regional history and the artistic legacy of alumni and faculty artists. Archives staff will work with you to tailor material and session plans to suit your curricular needs, with learning objectives focused on critical primary source literacy skills, including:

• conceptualizing research topics
• searching primary source databases and collections for relevant material
• evaluating and interpreting sources
• synthesizing materials and ideas into a research or creative project.

Sessions can include an introduction to archives, material show-and-tell, student-driven research, and can include one or multiple visits. Presentation-only sessions can be held in your classroom; sessions using Archives material are held in the Archives Research Room, which can seat up to 10 people, or accommodate more for a standing show-and-tell style visit. If you would like to visit with a larger group, please contact us and we will work on alternate arrangements.

To schedule an instruction session, contact the Archives.

• Guidelines for Primary Source Literacy
• Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education
• Framework for Visual Literacy in Higher Education
• Library of Congress: Resources for Teachers
• Teaching with Primary Sources Collective: Lesson plans