Teaching and Learning with Digital Primary Sources: Nine insights into awareness, literacy, and collaboration between librarians, faculty, and students

Posted on November 10, 2023 in Market Reports

As online education evolves in the wake of the pandemic and digitized and born-digital primary source resources increase in number, there is a growing recognition of the need for innovative digital primary source instruction. 

To help, Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries and JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, partnered to examine the current state of digital primary source instruction and research challenges faced by librarians and faculty instructors. The literature review, survey data analysis, and practitioner interviews culminated into a research report, Teaching and Learning with Digital Primary Sources: Nine insights into awareness, literacy, and collaboration between librarians, faculty, and student

The study surfaced challenges of awareness and discoverability, students’ lack of digital literacy, difficulties in platform navigation, and the gaps in perception and cooperation between librarians and teaching faculty. To help address these challenges, the report provides nine key insights that help guide librarians and faculty toward potential solutions.

Download the research report

About JSTOR

JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. As a nonprofit that believes in the power of knowledge to change the world for the better, JSTOR partners with libraries, museums, and publishers to reduce costs, extend access, and preserve scholarship for the future as affordably and sustainably as possible.

About Choice

As a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries, Choice supports the work and professional development of academic librarians by providing tools and services that help them become more effective advocates for their patrons. Through it’s sixty-year history, it has established itself as an authoritative source for the evaluation of scholarly resources and as the publisher of trusted research in areas of interest to a changing academic library community.

Today, Choice works to bring librarians, scholars, publishers, and the reading public together, facilitating a shared concern for the discovery, management, and preservation of scholarly information.

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