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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the author
- Reviews
With nearly 142 million items and one of the largest bodies of high-quality, digitized content available, the Library of Congress (LOC) is an enormously useful resource for librarians and teachers. Yet it remains a mystery to many. Exploring the wealth of materials freely available for free from LOC, Lehman and a stellar roundup of contributors offer an up-to-date survey of teacher resources to help teachers and librarian educators shake the dust off state-mandated history and literature curricula. Beginning with an introduction by Barbara Stripling, 2013-14 ALA President, this book
- Presents a tour of LOC, with an overview of its primary sources, including digital resources such as maps, diaries, and songbooks
- Details LOC Teacher Page resources, which provide easy access to the most relevant primary sources from the collections
- Offers a selection of lessons from teacher-librarians across the county, with guidance on how librarians and teachers and can use the library's resources in their local communities
- Features numerous sidebars, tables, and illustrations, showing how LOC's resources can illuminate the past while also providing a backdrop for discussing contemporary issues
This book persuasively demonstrates how the online resources of the Library of Congress can be used not only to enhance a sense of history but also to teach information literacy, online searching, and critical thinking skills to elementary, middle, and high school students.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
by Barbara Stripling
Chapter 1 Welcome to the Library of Congress
Sharon Metzger-Galloway
Chapter 2 Teaching Resources from the Library of Congress
Sara Suiter
Chapter 3 Professional Development and Support for Classroom Teachers Available through the Library of Congress
Katharine Lehman
Chapter 4 Action Lessons: Interacting with History
Compiled by Katharine Lehman from Participants of the 2011 Library of Congress Summer Institute
Chapter 5 Discovering Local History Resources in Your Own Backyard
Mary Alice Anderson
About the Author and ContributorsIndex
"This book is essential for K-12 educators and would be best in a school library that contains professional development material and any academic library in a school with an education department."
— Catholic Library World
"Chock-full of concrete activities, hints, tips, and other advice for K-12 teachers who wish to expose their students to primary sources … The ‘action lessons' compiled by Lehman in chapter 4 from participants in the 2011 Library of Congress Summer Institute should not be missed. I found the teachers' experiences inspirational and picked up several tips in working with primary sources for my own teaching."
— Portal
"Provides a great overview of the Library of Congress's resources for K-12 educators and can give archivists and librarians tips for best practices in engaging and working with this community on use of local primary sources."
— Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists