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Join us at the Whittemore Library for an edit-a-thon and behind-the-scenes tour! All participants, in-person and remote, welcome! |
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When: Thursday October 24th, 9am to 2pm
Where: Whittemore Library, 100 State Street Framingham, MA 01701. Focus: Normal schools and the history of education in Massachusetts. |
This edit-a-thon is part of Open Access to Massachusetts History 2013
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Interested in the history of education and would like to learn more about the Normal school movement in Massachusetts? Want to learn some of the basics of creating new Wikipedia articles? Would like to go on a tour of Henry Whittemore library's Special Collections and Archives? Join us to increase Wikipedia's coverage of the history of the Normal School movement in Massachusetts.
Please RSVP below, or RSVP by calling Millie Gonzalez at 508.626.4664 so we know how many to expect.
The Framingham State University Henry Whittemore Library's Archives and Special Collections were established in the 1970s, and include records in the University Archives ranging from the earliest days of the Normal School in 1839 to the present time. Special collections also include the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Papers, the Carter Children's Literature Collection, the Wakefield Cookbook Collection, and more. Because of the University's distinguished role as the country's first publicly supported normal school, the special collections as a whole take on further value: they illustrate the evolution of educational theories and practices throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Additionally, many of the volumes reflect the changes and orientations of the school's curriculum during these years.
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These are just to get you started -- feel free to add to this list.
This is the exciting part! Leave a half hour at the end of your edit-a-thon to collect and admire all of the work you've done, as well as take a few photos.