Supporting Teaching with Primary Sources at California State University, Northridge

Abstract

California State University Northridge (CSUN), along with twenty-six academic libraries across the United States and Great Britain, were invited to participate in a qualitative study to investigate how to best support teaching with primary resources. The goals of this research is to generate a rich description of instructors’ needs for teaching with primary sources and make actionable recommendations for how our library, and other campus stakeholders, can best support faculty and students going forward. This report summarizes CSUN’s University Library local findings and major themes identified through interviews with fifteen teaching faculty members teaching with primary source materials.