This guide provides details on how McCormick Library staff can support teaching and learning using our materials. 

The Resources for Faculty section contains: 

• How to initiate a class visit, discover materials, and visit our reading room. 

• Primary source instruction resources. 

• The kinds of instruction services we offer from a simple orientation on creating a researcher account and using our collections, to facilitating an entire class session using hands-on active learning techniques. 

• Guidance on accessing digitized primary source materials, both at Northwestern and other locations. 

The Resources for Students section offers: 

• A basic explanation of Special Collections and Archives materials. 

• An overview of primary vs. secondary sources. 

• A primer on how to locate, access, and analyze sources. 

• Best practices and methods for carrying out primary source research.