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Posted by: Danna Bell
In honor of Disability Employment Awareness Month, we asked Eric several questions about his work helping the Library of Congress promote an understanding of people with disabilities as citizens, contributors and employees in a diverse world and inclusive workforce.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
In my first blog post as Teacher in Residence, I set a number of goals: to connect primary sources to literature, to create research questions to advance inquiry, and to foster library skills. I was able to meet these goals in a number of ways and to reach out to teachers and librarians with approaches to working with primary sources and teaching research skills.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Make primary sources a daily habit, both as learners and as teachers. Take that first step, and connect with others so you can learn together.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Teaching Strategies
Posted by: Danna Bell
Last year I had the privilege to serve as the Special Curator for the online collection Finding Our Place in the Cosmos: From Galileo to Sagan and Beyond. This was, unquestionably, the coolest thing I have ever had the chance to work on.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Science Technology and Math
Posted by: Danna Bell
One of the most popular resources on the Library of Congress website is Chronicling America. A collaboration with the National Endowment for the Humanities, Chronicling America provides digital access to newspapers published in the United States of America between 1836-1922. Meet one of the people responsible for making this collection available online, Tonijala Penn.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts
Posted by: Danna Bell
Cheryl Davis is a technology specialist and coordinates professional development for teachers in the Acalanes Union High School District. She is also a TPS Teacher-Mentor.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Teaching Strategies, Teaching Tools
Posted by: Danna Bell
My curiosity is always sparked by an item in the collections, a question from a researcher, or the knowledge researchers bring while doing their research.
Posted in: Government and Law, Interviews with Experts, Women's History
Posted by: Danna Bell
In honor of National Poetry Month we decided to introduce you to Peter Armenti of the Digital Reference Team. You may have seen some of Peter's work in the Library of Congress Blog, "From the Catbird Seat" where he highlights poetry resources from the Library's collections.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Poetry and Literature
Posted by: Cheryl Lederle
This summer, attending the Library of Congress Summer Teacher Institute took me back to the “awe” of history. Seeing the diary entry from the night President Lincoln was shot, and being able to see the emotion in the writing…You don’t get that in a transcript or in a modified document.
Posted in: Interviews with Experts, Women's History