{"id":2211,"date":"2011-02-22T15:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2011-02-22T15:56:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T20:56:36","slug":"archival-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vault217.gmu.edu\/?p=2211","title":{"rendered":"Archival Instruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years we have hosted an increasing number of classes each semester in our reading room, much to our delight. One of our goals as a department is to reach more undergraduate students and introduce them to the joys of archival research. This past week we had over 20 undergraduate students here to learn about primary sources and how to begin including primary sources into their research. The class was HIST 389: The Civil Rights Movement and in the instruction session we gave them hand-on experience with some of the materials in our collections that relate to the Civil Rights Movement. These collections include <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/finding_aids\/mann.html\" target=\"_self\">C. Harrison Mann papers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/exhibit\/atkins_1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Ollie Atkins Photograph collection<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/sca.gmu.edu\/finding_aids\/levy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philp Levy Civil Rights collection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The students had a great time and several are ready to get into the reading room to begin working on their next assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the presentation that we included:<\/p>\n<div class=\"prezi-player\"><!-- .prezi-player { width: 550px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; } --><object id=\"prezi_ngttkz3kqpw_\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"502\" height=\"366\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"name\" value=\"prezi_ngttkz3kqpw_\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"prezi_id=ngttkz3kqpw_&amp;lock_to_path=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;autoplay=no&amp;autohide_ctrls=0\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/bin\/preziloader.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<div class=\"prezi-player-links\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\/ngttkz3kqpw_\/introduction-to-primary-source-research\/\">Introduction to Primary Source Research<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/prezi.com\">Prezi<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few years we have hosted an increasing number of classes each semester in our reading room, much to our delight. 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