When revolutionary-turned-president Thomas Jefferson still walked the streets of Washington, D.C., there were people who wanted to give him a good jab with their index finger and hand him a piece of their minds.
These days, here on Capitol Hill, you can give Thomas Jefferson a jab … and dig a little deeper into his mind.
It’s possible …
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category (9 posts)
Posted in: Capitol Hill, Collections, Education, Exhibitions, LC Web site, New Visitors Experience, Technology, Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington DC
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For the past 10 weeks, 47 college students have been digging through a variety of Library of Congress collections–finding amazing stuff so people like you can come here and get lost in it.
Such as?
Such as an ad for a patent medicine that figured in an 1898 murder case; a first edition in Russian of …
Posted in: American Folklife Center, Books, Cataloging, Collections, Copyright, Education, Poetry
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Starting about two decades ago, the Library of Congress–under the direction of Librarian of Congress James Billington–began moving more ambitiously into the K-12 education space than it had previously. In 1990 the Library began a pilot program to distribute digital primary-source materials on CD-ROM to classrooms. The program, known as American Memory, has …
Posted in: Collections, Education, LC Web site, News
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This morning at the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., about 150 folks got a cultural and environmental treat, hearing several young poets and seeing the work of young artists who were winners and finalists in this year’s “River of Words” competition.
2009 marks the 14th year the program, co-founded by former U. S. Poet …
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Tomorrow is Constitution Day, when we celebrate the Sept. 17, 1787, signing of that foundational document. If you’re a student who is putting the finishing touches on an assignment or essay, or a teacher who wants to inspire his or her class, you have come to the right place.
The Library of Congress has excellent Constitution …
Posted in: Collections, Education, History, LC Web site
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I blogged the other day about some new PSAs we have released in conjunction with the Ad Council that highlight lifelong literacy. And now we have added a new, interactive feature to our Literacy.gov Web site.
You can go on a �Storybook Adventure� by following this link and clicking on �play� once the animated banner …
Posted in: Books, Education, LC Web site
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It�s called the �National Book Festival,� so this year we�re doing something a little different to help make it even more truly national.
This year we have launched a �Young Readers� Toolkit� on the NBF Web site. There we provide a whole set of tools to help you host your very own book festival in your …
Posted in: Books, Education, Events, LC Web site, News
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In this age of downloadable, linkable and cut-and-pasteable everything, it seems that kids are being exposed to copyright issues at younger and younger ages. So what better time than the present to begin educating them?
That is the thought behind a new feature on our Web site (the U.S. Copyright Office is part of the Library …
Posted in: Education, LC Web site
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