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Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library's "The Exquisite Corpse" project, a tag-team YA story told by a number of children's authors and illustrators, turns 10 this year.
Posted in: Education, National Library Service (NLS)
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Kellie Taylor is the Library’s first-ever Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator. The fellowship program appoints accomplished K–12 teachers of science, technology, engineering and mathematics — the STEM fields — to collaborate with federal agencies and congressional offices in advancing STEM education across the country. Taylor has a doctorate in educational technology from Boise State University. She …
Posted in: Education, My Job, Researcher Stories, Science, Technology
Posted by: Neely Tucker
The Library is part of LibGuides, the international research aide.
Posted in: Education, Technology
Posted by: Neely Tucker
Four great children's books, free, for Children's Book Week.
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Carolyn Bennett, a music at Wheeler Middle/High School in North Stonington, Connecticut, is a teacher-in-residence a the Library’s Learning and Innovation Office this year.
Posted in: Education, Music, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest post by Amanda Reichenbach about a new American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) collection covering education reporting on public television. The AAPB is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the Boston public broadcaster WGBH. Reichenbach worked on the release while interning last summer at the Library’s John W. Kluge …
Posted in: Audiovisual, Education, Exhibitions, New Online, Video
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
Barb Rosenstock writes children’s books about people who have changed history — Ben Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Joe DiMaggio and racing legend Louise Smith among them. “The Noisy Paint Box,” her story about the artist Kandinsky, was a 2015 Caldecott Honor Book. In 2013, she published “Thomas Jefferson Builds a Library” about Jefferson’s massive book collection, …
Posted in: Books, Education, Literacy, Researcher Stories
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This interview with Ann Sullivan was first published in the September–October issue of LCM, the Library of Congress magazine. The issue is available in its entirety online. After reading the interview, make sure to take the quiz that follows! How would you describe your work? I catalog children’s books at the Library of Congress. This …
Posted in: Books, Cataloging, Education, Libraries, Literacy, My Job
Posted by: Wendi Maloney
This is a guest blog post by Sukanya Barman. She was an 11th-grade student at White Station High School in Memphis when she became a winner of the 2017–18 Letters About Literature contest, a reading and writing competition for students in grades four through 12 that involves reading a work and writing to its author …