Tokyo's Gift of Friendship
This video recounts the origins and events surrounding the 1912 gift of 3,020 cherry trees to the city of Washington. It is one in a series for the 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival that highlights both historic and contemporary traditions of springtime flower viewing. The "Cherry Blossom Viewing Over the Centuries" series features three short films that showcase a stunning variety of artifacts from...
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Date:2021-03-20
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Cherry Blossoms in Japanese Culture
This video explores Japan's centuries-old blossom viewing traditions. It is one in a series for the 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival that highlights both historic and contemporary traditions of springtime flower viewing. The "Cherry Blossom Viewing Over the Centuries" series features three short films that showcase a stunning variety of artifacts from Library collections, including watercolor drawings, colorful woodblock prints, vintage photos and beautifully...
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Date:2021-03-20
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Fleeting Beauty, Enduring Traditions
This video highlights the Library of Congress National Cherry Blossom Festival collection, which include posters from 1987 to the present and Princess programs from 1949 to the present. It is one in a series for the 2021 National Cherry Blossom Festival that highlights both historic and contemporary traditions of springtime flower viewing. The "Cherry Blossom Viewing Over the Centuries" series features three short films...
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Date:2021-03-20
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2020 Literacy Award Winners & Best Practice Honorees
2020 Award winners and Best Practice honorees are highlighted. Learn more about the inspiring work of the 2020 Library of Congress Literacy Award winners and Best Practice honorees.
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Date:2020-11-11
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Make a Mini-Book
Demonstration of the creative activity of making a mini-book; targeting children ages 5-12.
Library of Congress Surplus Books Program
Through its surplus books program, the Library of Congress offers free books to libraries, schools and organizations in need of them.
Registering for Your Reader Identification Card
This video will demonstrate how to register for your Reader Identification Card at the Library of Congress. A valid Reader Identification Card is required for users who wish to use the Reading Rooms for research.
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (60)
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (formerly National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) in the Library of Congress (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries,...
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Date:2018-01-08
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National Library Service for the Blind & Print Disabled (30)
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (formerly National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) in the Library of Congress (NLS) is a free braille and talking book library service for people with temporary or permanent low vision, blindness or a physical disability that prevents them from reading or holding the printed page. Through a national network of cooperating libraries,...
2016 Library of Congress Literacy Awards Promotion
Through its Library of Congress Literacy Awards, the Library celebrates literacy organizations and the dedicated people who, through passion and hard work, bring education and literacy to an unprecedented number of people around the globe.
Rosa Parks Collection: Telling Her Story at the Library of Congress
Highlights of the collection of Rosa Parks, a seminal figure of the Civil Rights Movement, on loan to the Library from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation for 10 years. The collection is now available online.Howard Buffett decided to purchase this special collection in 2014, when he learned that it was languishing in an auction warehouse. He wanted to bring these rare items into public...
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Date:2016-02-04
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Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Reflect
Inquiry is a cycle. Reflection is embedded throughout the inquiry process, but it is especially important at the end of a learning experience for students to think about what they have learned about the topic or idea and about inquiry itself. This video shows what new understandings and perspectives the students share with Jacqueline Braithwaite.
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Date:2015-11-19
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Teacher Resource: PS 153 & New York Draft Riots Unit
Three educators from PS 153 in New York City open share their teaching practices of using primary sources with their 4th graders. They developed a unit on the New York Draft Riots of 1863 and integrated the inquiry process into their lesson plans.
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Date:2015-11-19
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Teacher Resource: Inquiry - Wonder
Students will develop focus questions to guide their investigations while wondering during the inquiry process. Jacqueline Brathwait guides students in a discussion on what they already know about the Draft Riots and see them begin to develop questions for further exploration.
