Partner and collaborate with us to integrate rare books, archives, and manuscripts into your curriculum.
Curricular Support
Curricular Support
If you want to give your students a hands-on experience exploring and reflecting on primary sources, come teach with us! Dartmouth and non-Dartmouth instructors are welcome to collaborate with us on class sessions using our materials.
You may use materials to:
- Examine special collections holdings specific to the course topic.
- Explore the nature of evidence in primary sources.
- Learn how to interpret historical materials.
- Practice finding relevant special collections materials.
- Pursue individual research for class assignments.
Some classes spend a single session at Rauner Library, and some spend the entire term in one of our classrooms. Chat with us about how we can tailor an approach that meets your needs.
Location
We are happy to facilitate on-site, online, or hybrid class sessions to meet the needs of your institution and your students. We have three classrooms on site where students can work directly with special collections materials, each equipped with up-to-date classroom technology.
Request Instruction
If you have any questions, or just want to toss around ideas about how to incorporate the collections in your class, feel free to stop by in person or contact the Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Scholarly Engagement.
Our Staff
Morgan R. Swan
Special Collections Librarian for Teaching and Scholarly Engagement
Morgan Swan is the Special Collections Librarian for Teaching & Scholarly Engagement at Rauner Special Collections Library. He facilitates class visits to Rauner Library, supervises special collections public services, and coordinates special collections outreach efforts to the campus and community. Morgan has a PhD in Medieval English Literature from Yale University and received his Master's in Library and Information Science from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He grew up in Macau, China, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Recent Workshops
Reading Jane Austen
English Literature/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The students explored the issues of personal agency and social mobility for women during Austen’s time by contextualizing contemporary texts related to issues of society, women's health, as well as examining the transmission of Austen's texts through time. Explore the lesson plan, including the list of primary sources used.
Networks of Poetry
English Literature
Using correspondence and published materials, this session looked at the complicated relationship between Robert Frost and Ezra Pound to explore how 20th-century poets worked within tight literary networks. Explore the lesson plan, including the list of primary sources used.
First Wave Feminism
Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/History
This session used manuscript and printed materials, mostly from the 19th century, to explore cultural perspectives on women in England and the United States within the larger context of intersectional and first-wave feminism. Explore the lesson plan, including the list of primary sources used.
