The Common Core State Standards and Manuscript studies are two very unique subjects that would almost never be mentioned together in normal conversation. In fact these are two subjects that have nothing in common. Except that they do. The implementation and adoption of the Common Core standards throughout the country has caused major debate in much of the country about the importance of teaching handwriting in schools. This paper considers the implications of common core on a user’s ability to use archival and special collection materials and the importance that manuscript studies will play in order to bridge the gap left by the new standards.
The Common Core In 2010, forty-five states and the District of Columbia adopted the Common
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There will be users who cannot utilize the collections because they will not be able to read them. What is more, there may be archivists and librarians who will not be able to determine what is important because they cannot read their collections. This is why where primary and secondary schools fall short on cohesive writing education, tertiary education for future librarians and archivists pick up the slack. In order to give our users the best chance of using our collections, future archivists and librarians will need to have the skills to transcribe text so that they can be legible to as many users as …show more content…
The first that will be mentioned is codicology, which is the study of making of a manuscript. Generally this field examines the materials used for making the manuscript. Such materials are papyrus, parchment, palimpsests, paper and wax tablets. Other things that is discussed in this field is are different inks and how they are made. While this field is extremely interesting and is important to archivists and special collections librarians interested in the preservation of such materials, it does not offer solutions to the issues of reading different