How can our library resources help us learn about the history of the place in which we live?<\/p>\n
For this program, you\u2019ll host an open house for your Special Collections and\/or digital repositories to show patrons what local history resources are available in your library.<\/p>\n
This program can be conducted in person, or you could host a virtual tour (this could be done via a variety of video and\/or social media platforms–just be sure to consult the internet guidelines for your library system).<\/p>\n
If you are short on space, time, or personnel for an interactive tour, consider creating a set of reference handouts for patrons. The handouts can be designed to:<\/p>\n
See the Activity Resource Sheets for a series of charts that focus on four different local history research topics: Events, Communities, Families, and Locations. These charts are meant to be customizable and can be edited to reflect and include the sources in your local collection and could be adapted for specific collections as a guide for researchers.<\/p>\n
Activity resource sheet: What is Local History (docx)<\/a>; What is Local History (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n What do we know about the place in which we live?<\/p>\n For this program, you\u2019ll develop and facilitate a local history scavenger hunt.<\/p>\n This program can be modified to be completed as an individual activity, a group activity, or as field trip activity for students. Because your goal is for participants to learn more about their community and not just to simply complete the scavenger hunt, you may want to consider making this an ongoing activity.<\/p>\n The resources of your library such as Special Collections and digital repositories\/databases will be excellent for this activity. If patrons cannot come to the library to complete this activity, you will want to consider ways they can take part remotely using only digital resources.<\/p>\n The questions for the scavenger hunt come from Rebecca Onion\u2019s article, \u201cWhat Happened Here?\u201d (see Activity Resource Sheet). Feel free to add your own questions; you can even crowdsource questions specific to your community from patrons.<\/p>\n Activity resource sheet: What Happened Here (docx)<\/a>; What Happened Here (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n Activity adapted from School Reform Initiative, \u201cInquiry Circles: A Protocol for Professional Inquiry.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n Genealogy is a step toward local history research, as people in the past comprise both family trees and communities. What do we know about our family members in the past? Where did they live? How did they live? This program encourages patrons to bring their family stories to the library and begin crafting historical questions to guide their research.<\/p>\n *Note: This is an active program; you should have at least two participants so that you successfully facilitate the program. It may be too time-intensive to conduct this thinking protocol 1-on-1 with a patron.<\/em><\/p>\n Writing What We Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n Sharing What We Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n Retelling What We Remember<\/strong><\/p>\n Developing Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n Activity resource sheets: Storytelling Sheet (docx)<\/a>; Storytelling Sheet (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How can our library resources help us learn about the history of the place in which we live? For this program, you\u2019ll host an open house for your Special Collections and\/or digital repositories to show patrons what local history resources are available in your library. This program can be conducted in person, or you could […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":3280,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3327,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3287\/revisions\/3327"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/locallinkages.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What has happened here?<\/h2>\n
Collaborative Community Research Inquiry<\/h2>\n
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