Undergraduate learning and research with provenance information

Buchanan, Sarah A.

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Title

Undergraduate learning and research with provenance information

Author(s)

Buchanan, Sarah A.

Issue Date

2022-10

Keyword(s)

• Collections access
• Provenance research
• Material culture
• Special collections
• Academic museums
• Metadata
• Information use
• Students
• Pedagogy
• Archives

Abstract

Objects in multiple formats can comprise both the subjects and the approach making up "material culture": a mode of investigating and understanding culture. Some colleges and universities steward millions of objects in academic galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM institutions). Convergence among such information professionals has led to recent offerings of an undergraduate honors seminar around campus material culture which is the focus of analysis in this paper. Students in that setting interrogated and applied the concept of provenance in reflecting on their object-based interactions. We analyze three categories of provenance lessons from the students to inform future teaching: (1) an object's origins and pathways, (2) what provenance is and helps people do, and (3) new storytelling contributions.

Series/Report Name or Number

Proceedings of the ALISE Annual Conference, 2022

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

Conference Paper / Presentation

Language

eng

Handle URL

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/117991

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.alise.2022.1039

Copyright and License Information

• Copyright 2022 Sarah A. Buchanan
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

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