Offers readers an analytical guide and example assignments for teaching with primary materials, based heavily on first-hand case study accounts and interviews with practitioners and experts in the field.

Tamar Chute is the university archivist and head of Archives at the Ohio State University, where she manages the University Archives, Byrd Polar and
Climate Research Center Archival Program, and the Ohio Congressional Archives. Her responsibilities include records management, collection development, and outreach activities. Her research focuses primarily on college and university teaching and outreach and the ways federal privacy laws affect archival users. Chute has been a member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) since 1997 and is a past chair of SAA’s College and University Archives Section. She currently serves on SAA’s Dictionary Working Group.

Ellen Swain has served since 1999 as archivist for Student Life and Culture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she administers
a program dedicated to documenting student experience nationally and at the university. Prior to that, she was project archivist/assistant archivist (1996–1999) at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) national archives in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. She holds a BA from
Earlham College, an MA in American history from Indiana University, and a MS in information science from Illinois. Swain is a Fellow of the Society
of American Archivists and a past president of the Midwest Archives Conference (2011–2013).

Sammie L. Morris is associate professor and director of the Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center at Purdue University. She has an MLIS in Archival Enterprise from the University of Texas, Austin. She is a member of the SAA-ACRL/RBMS Joint Task Force on Primary Source Literacy and has 13 years of experience with archival instruction. She is a member of the Archival Issues Editorial Board. Her articles on archival literacy and archives management have appeared in The American Archivist, Archival Issues, Provenance, Libraries and the Cultural Record, The Bottom Line, Indiana Libraries, Archival Outlook, and Museline.

Introduction - 1
Support of the Institution and Goals of the Archives - 2
Who Does Instruction - 6
Levels of Involvement - 7
Partnering with Faculty Members - 17
Selecting Material - 20
Logistics of Instruction - 31
Using Technology to Deliver Primary Sources - 33
Assessment - 38
Conclusions and Recommendations - 40