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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces SFU's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate SFU’s Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of SFU’s First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early SFU Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer’s Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the SFU Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting SFU's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at SFU
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to SFU
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to SFU
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at SFU Archives
- Finding queer joy in the SFU Archives: Out On Campus records now available
- The Selma Wassermann fonds
- Personal and political in the archives of Andrew Petter
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Class Visits and Tours
Facilitate new learning experiences through the SFU Archives
Class visits
Staff archivists are available to host or visit undergraduate and graduate classes and provide instruction and presentations on:
- Our holdings and the information they contain
- Archives, archival principles and research
- Finding and using primary source materials in our collections
Themes
We work with faculty members to provide opportunities and ongoing support for students to:
- Learn what archives do and how they can support their research and learning
- Interact and conduct original research with primary source material
- Discover best practices for locating, handling, interpreting and incorporating primary source material into their research
Where possible, presentations and materials selected can be tailored to fit specific subject areas and/or assignments. SFU Archives holds a diverse range of archival fonds and collections.
Areas of particular strength include:
- Social, cultural and political movements of the 1960s to 1980s
- Women’s and 2SLGBTQ+ history, including the feminist movement
- Social justice and activism
- Politics and labour history
- Simon Fraser University and the university community
- British Columbia beer brewing history
Booking a visit
SFU Archives can accommodate groups of up to 20 students. Larger groups may be broken into multiple or concurrent sessions. To ensure maximum availability of your preferred date and time, we recommend reaching out to us prior to the start of the term, or as soon as possible.
To schedule your visit, email archives@sfu.ca with the following information:
- Proposed date(s) and time(s) of visit
- Number of students
- Expected learning outcomes
- Subject areas and/or course themes to cover
- Suggestions of archival material to highlight
- Copy of archival assignment (if relevant). Please reach out in advance if you would like input on an assignment Once we receive your request, an archivist will be in touch to confirm and discuss details
Preparing for your visit
- Have students familiarize themselves with our How to Conduct Research at the Archives guide and SFU AtoM holdings database (please note that we share our database with the SFU Library, Special Collections and Rare Books)
- If students will be conducting research at the archives, have them complete a Researcher Registration form in advance and bring it to class
- Visits take place in our climate-controlled vault, which averages 17 or 18 degrees Celsius. Students should dress appropriately
Questions? Do not hesitate to reach out. We look forward to working with you!
Tours
SFU Archives can accommodate tours of up to 15 individuals. Tours feature highlights from our holdings and provide a behind-the-scenes introduction to our facilities, program areas and archival functions.
Contact us at archives@sfu.ca to find out more!