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"Introduction"








  • Introduction
  • National Digital Library

















  • George and Carolyn Breaz
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"The mission of the Library..."

  • The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The goal of the Library's National Digital Library Program is to offer broad public access to a wide range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
  • The Library of Congress presents these documents as part of the record of the past. These primary historical documents reflect the attitudes, perspectives, and beliefs of different times. The Library of Congress does not endorse the views expressed in these collections, which may contain materials offensive to some readers.
  • These workshop materials are being reproduced with permission from the National Digital Library of Congress.
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"National Digital Library Workshop"
  • National Digital Library Workshop
  • Presentation #1


  • Participant Goals:
  • In this workshop, each participant will:
  • Begin to develop the skills needed to use the Library of Congress/National Digital Library web sites effectively (LOC/NDL)
  • Explore collection resources to identify topics of interest


  • Participant Objectives:
  • At the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
  • Understand the mission of the Library of Congress’ National Digital Library Program and its commitment to providing access to primary source material through the use of technology.
  • Understand that American Memory is a collection of archival collections each with its own unique characteristics and search opportunities.
  • Understand the tools, skills and conceptual underpinnings of the collections, allowing them to utilize the collections in their teaching.
  • Use strategies that are modeled to locate documents, images, and multimedia resources on in the collections.
  • Identify participant/team topic of interest.


  • Activities:
  • Facilitator Activities:
  • Demonstrate multiple search methods for materials.
  • Distribute and review contact information, URLs, web site activities, and agendas.
  • Participant/Team Activities:
  • Participant/Team begin searching the collections.
  • Participant /Team share strategies of searching collections that they would use with their students and identify the inherent difficulties.
  • Participant /Team begin identifying topics
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"National Digital Library Workshop"
  • National Digital Library Workshop
  • Presentation #2


  • Participant Goals:
  • In this workshop, each participant will:
  • Understand that primary sources come “unvarnished” and raise more questions than they answer.
  • Develop strategies for “making meaning” from the materials.


  • Participant Objectives:
  • At the end of this workshop, teams will be able to:
  • Differentiate between primary and secondary sources.
  • Apply a resource analysis process to analyze primary source media (visual, auditory, textual).
  • Replicate modeled use of multimedia in the development of their own lessons.
  • Identify collection resources specific to their topics.
  • Copy, paste, and save (bookmark – add to favorites) URL(s) of resources specific to their topics.
  • Identify specific software/hardware requirements necessary to utilize the LOC/NDL web site effectively.


  • Activities:
  • Facilitator Activities:
  • Demonstrate and provide guided practice in a resource analysis process for analyzing primary sources.
  • Demonstrate unique technical requirements of the LOC/NDL web site.
  • Model techniques-technical examples for using LOC/NDL resources.
  • Participant/Team Activities:
  • Identify specific resources within a collection as they pertain to their selected topics.
  • Practice analyzing primary sources using the resource analysis process.
  • Engage in bookmarking, downloading, printing, and saving resources from the LOC/NDL.
  • Participants will engage in hands-on exercises throughout the presentation.
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"Grateful acknowledgement is made to..."

  • Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following members of the National Digital Library staff for their permission to use NDL web sites and content contained therein.


  • Susan H Veccia, Project Director, National Digital Library of Congress


  • Leni Donlan, Educational Resources Specialist for the National Digital Library Program, Library of Congress.


  • Karen Needles, Library of Congress Staff Development facilitator in the
  •       Learning Center at the National Digital Library.


  • Linda White, Reference Librarian, Library of Congress










  • For Zach and Olivia
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