Poetry 180: Refreshing the Jukebox
Posted by: Danna Bell
The start of the school year also brings with it the start of Poetry 180, and this year is particularly exciting—we’ve added 10 new poems to the mix.
Posted in: News and Events
Archive: 2017 (106 Posts)
International Literacy Day
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
Celebrate International Literacy Day on September 8 with the Library of Congress! This year's theme is "literacy in a digital world," and the Library has a variety of programs and resources to support and celebrate literacy.
Posted in: News and Events, Poetry and Literature, Teaching Tools
Visit Us at the National Book Festival This Saturday
Posted by: Danna Bell
Are you coming to the 17th annual Library of Congress National Book Festival ? It's this Saturday, September 2nd at the Washington Convention Center.
Posted in: News and Events
“You Are a Historian” – and Now So Am I: Reflections of a Library of Congress Junior Fellow
Posted by: Danna Bell
This summer, I had the distinct honor of being selected to be a Junior Fellow here at the Library of Congress.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners
Five Questions with Kaleena Black, Educational Resource Specialist, Library of Congress Educational Outreach Team
Posted by: Danna Bell
I manage the Library's Junior Fellows Summer Intern Program, which brings undergraduate and graduate students to work on an array of projects across the Library for 10 weeks. I am also involved in the Library’s social media initiative as the manager of the Twitter page for the World Digital Library. WDL is an international initiative that partners with institutions worldwide to provide free access to digitized historical and cultural treasures from around the world. (We also tweet in seven languages!)
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Welcome Back to Teaching with the Library of Congress!
Posted by: Stephen Wesson
We are delighted to launch another year of ideas and conversation at Teaching with the Library of Congress!
Posted in: News and Events, Teaching Tools
Thomas Jefferson and the 1811 Constitution Day Eclipse
Posted by: Danna Bell
As Americans anxiously await next week's total eclipse of the sun, many are making plans not only to observe it, but also to record their observations in order to calculate their longitude. Or maybe not...But in 1811, when the solar eclipse that occurred on Constitution Day was visible in central Virginia, that is exactly what Thomas Jefferson did.
Posted in: Science Technology and Math
Five Questions with Monica Valentine, Serials Technician, US Arts, Sciences, and Humanities Division and Program Specialist, Young Readers Center, Library of Congress
Posted by: Danna Bell
I also work in the Library of Congress Young Readers Center (YRC) on a part-time basis. We welcome children and families who are visiting the Library, as well as groups of K-12 students, and assist them in using our diverse collection of nearly 7,000 books for young people. I assist in coordinating special events for kids, including children’s author talks, many of which are now live streamed and accessible to students anywhere.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Young Learners
Five Questions with Sahr Conway-Lanz, Modern American Historian, Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Posted by: Danna Bell
As one of the historians in the Manuscript Division, one of Sahr Conway-Lanz's primary responsibilities is collecting archival materials that document the foreign policy and military history of the twentieth and twenty-first century United States.
Posted in: Industrial United States, World Wars and the Great Depression (1914-1945), Interviews with Experts