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Historical Curriculum Collections at University of Alberta
(Description/overview needed of all the sections we end up including)

Historical Bibliographies
The Alberta School Curriculum Historical Bibliography 1885-1985 ( Elementary and Secondary) is a list of the materials authorized for use in Alberta schools during this time period. Many of the materials listed here are included in the archival collection of curriculum materials in the Herbert T. Coutts (Education and Physical Education) Library at the University of Alberta and may be viewed for research purposes at the library.

This bibliography was made possible by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant. Efforts were made to identify and create a database of all the Kindergarten to grade 12 learning resources that had been authorized by the territorial authorities prior to Alberta becoming a province in 1905, and the provincial authorities responsible for education since then. The information from the historical bibliography is used to identify the time period and subject matter for which each textbook was used.

(link to history of ed in alberta wiki pages?)

Curriculum Guides
In response to requests from faculty and students, a portion of the Coutts Historical collection, the curriculum guides, were digitized in 2012 through a partnership with The Internet Archive foundation (IA).

Historical Textbooks used in Alberta Schools
Wiedrick Historical Education Curriculum Collection - Textbooks

In 2011, Coutts Library received a bequest from Marie Wiedrick, wife of Lawrence (“Laurie”) Wiedrick, to enhance services for faculty and students. Building on the digitization of the Curriculum guides, members of the Coutts Library Advisory Committee decided to expand the earlier curriculum guides digitization project to include textbooks in order to meet scholars and student learning and research needs and to carry on Lawrence Wiedrick’s legacy.

The IA records include the approval date and approval statement (what subject the textbook was used in as well as what year(s) right along with the digitized book), which is invaluable information for researchers and unique to this collection.

What can I find in the Wiedrick Collection?

Textbooks and curriculum materials in subjects such as: Art, Drama, English, French, German, Home Economics, Latin, Mathematics, Music and Social Studies from 1885 onwards. Thanks to a long running project by former Coutts librarians to create bibliography of Alberta School Textbooks - we have been able to include the approval date an approval statement (what subject the textbook was used in as well as what year(s) right along with the digitized book), which is invaluable for researchers and unique to this collection.

In addition to the guides, the Historical Collection includes textbooks used in Alberta schools from the late 1800s to the present.

Print versions of this unique collection of textbooks that were approved for use in Alberta schools are housed in the Curriculum Historical Collection at the H.T. Coutts Education and Physical Education Library.

Digitization of these items now enables many more researchers to search and obtain access to these historical documents. Also of interest is the digitized curriculum guides collection.

List unique/local value titles?

Research and outreach?

How to access the collections
Print:

Online: IA (CDL?)

(From Wiedrick Content Paragraph for Sonya/SLT)

University of Alberta Libraries have recently been exploring Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) through discussions with the Internet Archive, our primary digitization vendor and partner. The premise of CDL’s “own one, loan one” model is the use of technical controls to facilitate the lending of digitized versions of print materials held by a library, improving access to restricted or inaccessible materials, particularly those without available ebooks. Following conversations with Chris Freeland and Andrea Mills from the Internet Archive at the University of Alberta on December 4 and 5, 2018, the Wiedrick curriculum collection has been proposed as an early pilot to test the infrastructure and concepts for CDL at UofA. Digitization of the Wiedrick collection has included both public domain materials, currently available through the Internet Archive, as well as in-copyright materials, which have been stored in a “dark” collection that is not publicly accessible.

Articles/Press
Lingley, Scott. (Mar 11, 2019). Wiedrick collection gets out of the basement, into your browser. Illuminate. https://illuminate.ualberta.ca/content/wiedrick-collection-gets-out-basement-your-browser

Bailey, Lila. (September 24, 2019). University of Alberta Opens Up Digital Access to Historic Curriculum Materials.[blog post]. Internet Archive Blogs. https://blog.archive.org/2019/09/24/university-of-alberta-opens-up-digital-access-to-historic-curriculum-materials/

Turner, Kate (April 10, 2019). Coutts Library digitizing old Alberta textbooks thanks to donation. The Gateway. https://thegatewayonline.ca/2019/04/coutts-library-digitizing-old-alberta-textbooks-thanks-to-donation/

Cook, Jordan. (May 19, 2019). Extensive collection of Canadian children’s books now available at U of A. Folio. https://www.folio.ca/extensive-collection-of-canadian-childrens-books-now-available-at-u-of-a/

20th biennial conference of the Canadian History of Education Association/ l’Association canadienne d’histoire de l’éducation (CHEA/ACHÉ). Fredericton, NB

October 18-21, 2018

Lindsay Gibson, Debbie Feisst, Carla Peck, & Kim Frail (University of Alberta), Enhancing Historical Thinking with History Textbooks from the Past

Kim Frail and Debbie Feisst (University of Alberta), Using Historical Textbook Collections in your Research & Teaching