To the Benefit of Both: Academic Librarians Connect with Middle School Teachers through a Digitized History Resources Workshop.

The article presents information about a workshop which was sponsored by the North Carolina Collection at East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, to familiarize middle school teachers with the Eastern Carolina Digital History Exhibits and provide lesson plans for the site. Academic librarians are actively digitizing their unique historical records, and, like other digitizers, have always recognized the K-12 community as natural and immediate users of their sites. Digitizers know the value of their materials and believe that they will benefit the classroom. The workshop revealed the need for teachers and librarians to work more closely together in the design and use of new digital history resources. It also revealed the benefits of cooperative efforts.