Teaching with Drawings: Primary Source Instruction with Architecture Archives
Architectural archival collections contain a wide variety of documents and materials that are effective teaching tools for primary source instruction. Sketches, design and construction drawings, material samples, models, and photographs are just some of the collection materials one may find in an architecture archives. However, architecture archivists are not formally trained to teach with these collections. The authors examine the gap in professional and scholarly literature on teaching with these specific materials and consider this in comparison to the rich literature on teaching with primary sources more broadly. They discuss the pedagogical models they have applied in their instruction work and how these support the information-seeking habits and research needs of architecture faculty and design students. By contributing to the growing body of literature on teaching with special collections in this specific subject area, the authors hope to elevate the skills and expertise that architecture archivists bring to the field.ABSTRACT
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Jessica Quagliaroli is the architecture records archivist for Manuscripts and Archives at Yale University Library. She's responsible for the arrangement and description of architectural archival collections, outreach, and special collections instruction for Yale School of Architecture faculty and students, and research and reference services for faculty, students, and researchers outside of the Yale community. She is an active member of the Design Records Section of the Society of American Archivists.
Pamela Casey is the architecture archivist at Drawings & Archives at Columbia University's Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library. Previously the archivist at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, Casey has also worked as a researcher and editor for architects and architectural historians in Canada and the United Kingdom. She holds an MLIS from McGill University and an MFA from Columbia University. At Drawings & Archives, along with processing collections, supporting reference services, and planning for born-digital archives, Casey is the lead archivist for instruction and outreach. She teaches classes in the archives to graduates and undergraduates and leads dedicated instruction sessions on archival research.