This guest post comes from Audrey Fischer of the Library’s Communications Office:
Generations of former kids who learned their ABCs on PBS will be celebrating today’s 40th anniversary of the show “Sesame Street.” (external link)
The Library’s been a fan right along! In April 2000, for example, when the Library of Congress celebrated its bicentennial, Big Bird …
Archive for the ‘Education’ Category (14 posts)
Posted in: Collections, Education, Events, National Book Festival
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Chapter two is now online, exclusively at read.gov. This episode was penned by Katherine Paterson.
What will happen next?? Find out in chapter 3, by Kate DiCamillo, on Oct. 23. And don’t forget our new social media sharing tool, so that you can easily alert friends on your social network of choice.
Posted in: Books, Education, LC Web site, National Book Festival, News
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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 …
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 …
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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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