" To enhance undergraduate learning in the liberal arts by promoting use of library special collections"

Participating Institutions

Teagle Project Overview:

The partner libraries in the Teagle grant will explore the educational proposition that students who are presented with special and source collections of primary materials will interact with those materials in ways that help them develop their:

• fundamental understanding of the role of historical materials in the shaping of human understanding;
• skills in manipulating such materials;
• ability to interpret documents and artifacts as part of a larger research enterprise; and
• grasp of the history and culture represented by particular artifacts.

Additional Project Information:

• Press Release (Yale University): project announcement (3.15.2005)
• "Improving liberal arts education through use of library special collections" (MS Powerpoint presentation)
• Reading List for use of primary sources in undergraduate teaching (MS Word document)