LC Learning Page Update

[Elizabeth L. Brown]

Sent to multiple lists.  Please forgive the duplication.

Send questions and/or comments about the Learning Page
to its Reference Librarian at:  ndlpedu at loc.gov

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"BACK TO SCHOOL SPECIAL" AVAILABLE FROM THE LEARNING PAGE
OF NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY PROGRAM

     The National Digital Library Program of the Library of
Congress welcomes students to a new school year with a "Back
to School Special" on the Learning Page, a site for teachers
and students available on the Library of Congress World Wide
Web homepage at  http://www.loc.gov/.

     The "Back to School Special," available September 16,
includes a new area called "Learn More About It!"  Here 
teachers and students will find pages full of helpful hints
for using on-line documents, photographs, motion pictures,
and sound recordings available from the American Memory
historical collections on the Library's website.  For 
example, users can access illustrated guides to the content
covered by each on-line collection.  Teachers will find
ideas on classroom uses for electronic materials.

     Working in partnership with the Center for the Book of
the Library of Congress, the Learning Page also features
book lists under the familiar banner "Read More About It,"
a hallmark of the center's literacy program.  For each
historical collection, "Read More About It" will offer
general-interest and younger-reader lists.

     The Learning Page's subject search guides, called
Pathfinders, have also been upgraded for the "Back to School
Special."

Pathfinders for Events, People, Places, Time, and Topics
have been expanded to include new search assistance specific
to education.  A new Pathfinder based on historical eras has
been added to the Time Pathfinder.  Three new primary source
collections that went online in July have been mapped into
the Pathfinders: the Evolution of the Conservation Movement,
1850-1920; the Gottscho-Schleisner Photographs, 1932-1960;
and the Theodor Horydczak Photographs, 1920-1950.

     The Learning Page is featured in the latest issue of
_School Library Journal_ (September 1996) in "History
Repeats Itself: Primary Documents Go Online at the Library
of Congress," by Martha Dexter, of the educational services
area of the Library's Digital Library Program.

     The National Digital Library Program aims to make
freely available millions of unique items from the Library's
American history collections on the Internet.  Begun in
1994, the program is funded by congressional appropriations
and support from the private sector.  More than 15 
collections are currently available, including Mathew Brady
photographs, African American pamphlets relating to the
Civil War and the civil rights movement, sound recordings of
American leaders, and short films of Thomas Edison.

Send questions about the Learning Page or about the using
the American Memory Collections to the Reference Librarian
at the National Digital Library Program by email to:
ndlpedu at loc.gov.

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Library of Congress Press Release PR96-118
For Press Release Archive see:
gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/loc/announce/prs/
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*   Elizabeth L. Brown, M.L.S.                            *
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