Museums and Teaching with your Primary Sources
Learn how the WWPL uses primary sources and creates accessible collections
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Event Details
Virtual Workshop - June 4, 2024
Museum Collections and Archives contain items that allow students and visitors to understand and find context for first-hand experiences from history. Studying primary sources provides tangible links to the technological, scientific, and social changes of the past. Museums can use their collections to expand the knowledge to all visitors. Learn how staff at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library make their collections accessible and provide primary source analysis to students, teachers, and general visitors. Gain information on how to support museum education activities while still maintaining your collection.
Registration Instructions:
Please provide the attendee's contact information for the tickets purchased. It is preferred that each attendee registers themselves so that event history is correctly tracked in each attendee's profile. If you are not a member, consider joining to take advantage of the discounted member rate.
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Certificate tracks eligibility:
- Collections
- Education/Outreach
When you register, please select which credits you would like to be applied to your certificate in Museum Management. Attending this workshop applies 2 credits towards Collections or Education/Outreach. Credit will be awarded per certificate track. We don’t offer crossovers for credits.
Guest Speakers:
Emily Kilgore, Director of Education and Engagement at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
About:
Emily Kilgore is the Director of Education and Engagement at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library since 2018, and has a passion for museum education. She received her B.A. from Longwood University in Public History, completed her M.A. in history at Old Dominion University, and her Certificate in Museum Management from the Virginia Association of Museums. In addition to her work at Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, Emily is also an adjunct professor in museum studies at Brightpoint Community College in Virginia. Emily also works in partnership with the Library of Congress as part of their “Teaching with Primary Sources” programs.
Danna Bell, Educational Resource Specialist at the Library of Congress and member of the Board of Trustees at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
About:
Danna Bell is an Educational Resource Specialist at the Library of Congress. In her current position Danna supports teachers as they learn to effectively use primary sources for classroom activities. Prior to this position she served as an archivist for the National Equal Justice Library, now housed at Georgetown University Law School, the Washingtoniana Division, now known as the People’s Archives, of the DC Public Library and at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration and a Master’s degree in College Student Personnel Services from Miami University. She also has her Masters in Library Science from Long Island University.
She is a past Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) and a past president of the Society of American Archivists. She has presented and chaired sessions at many conferences. She is also the co-creator of Real World Reference, a workshop offered by SAA. In 2017 she received the Distinguished Service Award from MARAC. In addition, for her work in support of SAA and the archival profession as whole she was named a Fellow of the Society of American Archivists.