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Introducing “The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon”!

Posted by: Danna Bell

This is a cross posting of a blog post from the Poetry and Literature Center written by Anne Holmes Cover by Juana Medina Our energy is truly buzzing today as we debut “The Technicolor Adventures of Catalina Neon,” U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera’s second-term online project. “Catalina Neon” is a bilingual, illustrated, narrative poem …

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Education Highlights from the 2016 National Book Festival

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

One highlight of the National Book Festival is the opportunity to talk with so many teachers about the Library's program for K-12 educators. On Saturday we were able to meet more than 120 teachers and school librarians and tell them about the Library's amazing online collections of primary sources, and about the teacher resources available at loc.gov/teachers. Learning from teachers is an important part of our program, and we're grateful that the National Book Festival provides a venue for us to exchange ideas with educators from around the country.

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Primary Sources in the Primary Grades: Introducing Teresa St. Angelo, 2016-17 Library of Congress Teacher in Residence

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

The Teacher-in-Residence uses Library of Congress resources to create a project that will benefit their hometown or district in the following school year, and I'll be developing primary source portfolios for teachers in grades K-2. The Library of Congress will be my home for the next year. I am humbled, eager, and honored to serve in this position.

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Your Students Can Archive the Internet — Apply Now

Posted by: Cheryl Lederle

Beginning with a pilot program in 2008, the K-12 Web Archiving Program has engaged hundreds of middle and high school students from schools around the United States in selecting, describing, and preserving Web content. Through September 16, the program is accepting applications for new and returning partners from middle and high schools.

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New Ebooks from the Library of Congress: Scientific Data, Weather Forecasting, and the New Deal

Posted by: Stephen Wesson

Pore over the first periodic table of elements. Highlight interesting entries in Thomas Jefferson’s handwritten record of temperatures of Monticello. Hear the stories of people struggling to survive the Great Depression. The Library of Congress is once again providing students everywhere with a chance to touch, draw on, and explore treasures from its vast collections with the release of its three newest free interactive ebooks for tablets.

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Discovering Elements of Urban Culture in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century from a Children’s Book

Posted by: Danna Bell

In the May/June 2016 issue of Social Education, the journal of the National Council for the Social Studies, our “Sources and Strategies” article featured The Rocket Book, a children’s book published in 1912. The details contained in both the story’s prose and its illustrations—from the names and occupations of the tenants to the pastimes and inventions depicted—provide a unique glimpse of urban life in America in the early years of the twentieth century.