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Library of Congress 2.0 Linda & David Lackey American Memory Fellows
Teaching Primary Source Nonfic3on Analysis with the Library of Congress American Memory Digital Archive
WVIZ/PBS ideastream Technology + Learning Conference November 14, 2013
Library of Congress -‐ hOp://www.loc.gov
Billington championed the Library’s American Memory Program which makes freely available on-‐line over 24 million American historical items as a way of “keeping democracy vital”.
Dr. James Billington Librarian of Congress 1987-‐Present
To put the en*re Library of Congress in even the smallest town, all we have to do is run a network spigot into that town, and hook it up to the computers, and we will have the en*re Library of Congress at our finger*ps. -‐ Steve Jobs, 1990
hOp://www.loc.gov/index.html
hOp://memory.loc.gov
Library of Congress 2.0 Linda Lackey – [email protected] David Lackey – [email protected]
History Channel -‐ Library of Congress – Visitor Experience