Teaching With Primary Sources is part of the series Trends in Archives Practice. It includes three modules:

Module 9: Contextualizing Archival Literacy
by Elizabeth Yakel and Doris Malkmus
Examines the evolving theory of archival literacy in relation to domain knowledge, primary source literacy, and information literacy to facilitate meaningful use of archival and manuscript collections.

Module 10: Teaching With Archives: A Guide for Archivists, Librarians, and Educators
by Sammie L. Morris, Tamar Chute, and Ellen Swain
Provides practical guidance to archivists, librarians,and educators on teaching with archival materials,offering tips for beginners as well as seasoned instructors.

Module 11: Connecting Students and Primary Sources: Cases and Examples
by Tamar Chute, Ellen Swain, and Sammie L. Morris
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.

As Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe notes in the introduction, "These three modules present a wealth of resources for meeting the challenges of primary source literacy instruction. They can be read start-to-finish to build a foundation for practice. Or, they can be dipped into as needed by the busy educator who needs practical ideas or inspiration for that next instruction session."

Elizabeth Yakel is a professor at the University of Michigan School of Information, where she teaches in the areas of archives and preservation. Her research centers on the users of archives and special collections and investigates the ways in which primary sources can be made more accessible
to broader audiences. She is currently researching the role and impact of archival literacy in teaching with primary sources. She is a Fellow of the
Society of American Archivists (SAA) and has served on the SAA Council.

Doris Malkmus earned a doctorate in history at the University of Iowa and master’s in information science at the University of Michigan. She served as instruction archivist at Penn State and has chaired two working groups for the Society of American Archivists’ Reference, Access, and Outreach Section—one that created a National History Day toolkit
and another that is creating a forthcoming interactive website for teaching with primary sources.

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-ACR L/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.

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).

INTRODUCTION
A LENS ON
INFORMATION LITERACY • 1
Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe

MODULE 9
CONTEXTUALIZING ARCHIVAL LITERACY • 5
Elizabeth Yakel and Doris Malkmus

MODULE 10
TEACHING WITH ARCHIVES: A GUIDE FOR ARCHIVISTS,
LIBRARIANS, AND EDUCATORS • 69
Sammie L. Morris, Tamar Chute, and Ellen Swain

MODULE 11
CONNECTING STUDENTS AND PRIMARY SOURCES: CASES AND EXAMPLES • 137
Tamar Chute, Ellen Swain, and Sammie L. Morris

One Book, One Profession
Study Guide Questions • 203