University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University Libraries)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will develop and host a three-year online summer fellowship program to train MLIS students to teach with primary sources. Primary sources can create a rich opportunity for engaging with questions of historical equity. They help us reckon with the past; help correct erroneous beliefs that persist in national, local, and personal narratives; and help us envision our futures. Educators at all levels rely on librarians and archivists to help them and their students understand and contextualize primary sources. The profession needs librarians and archivists trained in how to teach others to analyze and interpret primary source objects. The training program will fill the curricular gap in primary source pedagogy in current library and information science graduate programs while building a network of support for new professionals from backgrounds underrepresented in the profession.