From American Library Association:
With funding from the Teaching with Primary Sources program of the Library of Congress, the American Library Association (ALA) has published “Programming with Primary Sources: Women’s Suffrage”,a resource guide to inspire and help library workers incorporate primary source research into their book clubs, crafts programs, and other library programs.
The 31-page guide is free and accessible to everyone on the ALA website. Download the guide here.
History textbooks often offer a simplistic account of the nation’s experience with women’s suffrage, but closer examination paints a much more complex history of women’s suffrage activism. women.
Created by librarians in conjunction with ALA’s Office of Public Programs, the guide “Programming with Primary Sources: Women’s Suffrage” aims to shed light on lesser-known stories and perspectives from the suffrage era. women and to provide user-friendly resources so that libraries across the United States can lead impactful conversations about this important part of our nation’s past.
The guide includes:
- Six program templates, each with detailed program plans and primary source recommendations, which can be reproduced and adapted for different audiences
- Suggestions for ways to combine primary source analysis with book discussions
- Useful resources for analyzing primary sources, learning more about women’s suffrage, and understanding copyright and fair use
“Primary sources are the raw materials of history – original documents and objects that were created during the time studied,” reads the Library of Congress website. As such, these articles are powerful educational tools. Bringing people of all ages into close contact with objects from bygone eras can bring the past to life in a unique and powerful way.
Thousands of items from the Library of Congress tell the story of the women’s suffrage movement: historical and contemporary audio and video files, posters, photographs, magazines, sheet music, maps, rare manuscripts and books, and government documents and laws.
Since 2006, the Library of Congress has awarded Teaching with primary sources (TPS) to build a national network of organizations that deliver educational programs and create teaching materials and tools based on the library’s digitized primary sources and other online resources. Each year, members of this network, called the TPS Consortium, help tens of thousands of learners develop their knowledge, engagement and critical thinking with items from the Library’s collections.
Teaching with Primary Sources: Women’s Suffrage and Libraries is made possible by the Library of Congress. The program is administered by ALA Office of Public Programs. To be notified of future resources, grants, and opportunities from the ALA Office of Public Programs, sign up for the ALA Programming Librarian newsletter.
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