Reflections on pedagogy
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Using The Saint John’s Bible in Primary Source Instruction
There’s a class of twelve history students in an upper-level capstone class visiting the library. Many of them have been in a special collection or archive before, so the experience…
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A Muppet History of the Book
At the beginning of special collections instruction sessions, I sometimes ask students what books are meaningful to them and why. If there’s time, I might share The Monster at the End…
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I Made This For You: Reflections on Responding Materially, or Grading as Making
Since 2021, in my “Book History in Practice” class at the University of Toronto, I have given an assignment I call “material experiments.” The most basic articulation of the assignment…
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Welcome Back to SHARP in the Classroom!
Our new SHARP in the Classroom editor, Rebecca Baumann, shares this re-introduction to our pedagogy section and discusses our expectations for new submissions.
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So Now What? Lessons from a Year of Virtual Special Collections Visits
Like so many others, my introduction to remote teaching was an abrupt and rapid process of trial and error. I started as the curator of the University of Florida’s rare…
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Pandemic Pedagogy: Marginalia in the Marguerite Hicks Collection
Editor’s note: In the spring of 2020, Megan Peiser (Assistant Professor of English at Oakland University) was teaching a capstone course for the English major, “History of the Book in…