Archives Week 2006 Programming Suggestions
This list of program ideas is only meant to suggest possibilities. Brainstorm with others in your community and in your institution to develop other ideas that fulfill the mission of Archives Week and that work for you. Involve as many people in your area as you can. Be imaginative!
Classroom Collaborations
- Give an educational presentation for National History Day students on how to use primary sources.
- Conduct a class project to write the history of a leisure time activity or a sport that was previously popular in Wisconsin.
- Work with a teacher to develop lesson plans that incorporate historical records by or about Wisconsin at Play.
Local Media
- Work with your local newspaper to print a photograph or letter from your collections each day of Archives Week, or highlight different leisure time activities on a weekly basis.
- Publicize any events underway in conjunction with Archives week.
- Suggest a news story that contrasts a sporting event popular in your area of Wisconsin with it's popularity today and how that's changed.
Public Programming
- Develop a campaign to collect documents from your community that should be preserved for posterity. Publicize your collecting efforts during Archives Week and enlist the interest and support of your community.
- Create an exhibit of items from your collections and invite school classes and community groups to guided tours of the exhibit and of your institution. For greater exposure, move the exhibit from your institution to other public spaces such as the post office or a school exhibit case.
- Work with community groups to create public programs or panel discussions about recreation in Wisconsin, past and present.
Record reminiscences of your community members. Their recorded memories can be your most precious historical records.
- Host a viewing of films featuring historic sporting events or gatherings.
- Organize a family history night, when your genealogy patrons have your collection to themselves. encourage parents and grandparents to bring members of their families' younger generations to learn about their family history.
- Put on a Home Movie Night event, bringing people in your community together to watch the films and videos may of us have recorded of our leisure activities; remind the audience that home movies are historical records like every other document in your archives.
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