>> Carla Hayden: Hello. Thank you for being here. I'm Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress. And we're so pleased that you're with us today and you're in for a special treat, 'cause I'm doing what they do on the photos. You know they do that. Miss Connie, there's Miss Connie. She worked at the Library of Congress for 50 something years. [Applause] And now Miss Connie, affectionately known as the Energizer Bunny, is volunteering at the Library of Congress. Thank you, Miss Connie, because we often talk about the treasures of the world's largest library with 23 presidents, the papers, Rosa Parks, all of these things. But the real treasures are the people who work at the Library of Congress. And you got a chance to meet them at the booth. But now you're gonna hear from someone who is really making the collections useful and relevant for people who are teaching young people. We have a program called Teaching with Primary Resources, and the best person that we could find is with you today. And she's the one that is leading that and can make you so excited about history. You just be like Miss Connie. All right. So this is Lee Ann Potter, teaching with Primary resources. >> Lee Ann Potter: Thank you. So much. That was so sweet. Thank you. [Applause] Well, that was a very special surprise. That does not happen every day. Come on in, folks. We've got four more seats here, one here off. We got room. Before we get started. I have been handed the thing I have to read. So I'm gonna read this and then we'll dive in. Welcome to the 23rd Annual Library of Congress National Book Festival, a place where everyone has a story. At this time, we ask you to turn off or silence your cell phones. I can provide information about restrooms if you need them. They're over there. There are also some over there on the left, if those are crowded. We also wanna notify you that this event will be recorded and your entry and presence at this program constitutes your consent to be filmed or otherwise recorded. Thank you for joining us and enjoy this program. Thank you. I got the clicker. Thank you. As Dr. Hayden said, my name is Lee Ann Potter and I have the pleasure of directing an office at the library that is called Professional Learning and Outreach Initiatives. And this afternoon, I'm gonna talk with you about the work that colleagues of mine and I do, too. Like Dr. Hayden said, get the collections of the library into the hands of educators and students for the purpose of really inspiring them. Game of my talk this afternoon that is inspire your students. Before I hit the clicker, I just am curious how many of you are classroom teachers? Excellent. How many of you are librarians? Excellent. How many of you have young people in your life that you really want to engage in wanting to learn? Oh, yeah. And neighbors count, by the way, so it's all good. All right. Please raise your hand if you like to learn. All right. Now you have to tell me why. Or actually, better yet, tell me what inspires you to learn. Good question, huh? Okay. So. >> A good writer always inspires me. >> Lee Ann Potter: Excellent. A good writer. Good answer. What inspires you? >> A question I want to answer. >> Lee Ann Potter: Perfect. When you're curious and you have a question you wanna answer. What else inspires you to learn? >> My students, who are adults ages 18 to 64, are trying to earn the high school diploma. >> Lee Ann Potter: So they're motivated and they inspire you with their motivation. I love that. Others? >> Reading. >> Lee Ann Potter: Reading inspires us. Hey, we should all go to a book festival. All right. >> Just a basic curiosity of life and what's going on and just, you know, open to all happenings. >> Lee Ann Potter: Right. The world around us makes us curious. I love it. >> It's the enormity of the things we don't know. >> Lee Ann Potter: Yes, exactly. When we realize we don't know it all. >> I work at Morehouse College and we serve programs. And I'm astonished at how many young people in this country do not read at grade level. >> Lee Ann Potter: So you're motivated to inspire that sort of opportunity, right? Yes. All right. So these were the things I thought you were gonna say. I thought you were gonna say, okay, I don't know why it's not working. We'll try again. I was thinking you would say things like, "Oh, I'm inspired by an interest in a subject or something that captures my attention or the enthusiasm of others or the expertise of others or the desire to become an expert." That's a good one. That's why you all watch YouTube videos, right? Uh-huh. "The relevancy to something you want to learn more about, curiosity, the element of surprise, a desire for success and more." In other words, lots of things inspire us to want to learn. If I had said what cultural institution, government agency, or largest library in the world inspires learning, what would you have said? That's right. You would have said the Library of Congress. Good answer, Connie. And really, by the end of this talk, I'm gonna ask that question again, and you're all gonna answer in unison, Library of Congress and then everybody around here is going to be like, "What was that all about?" Okay, you can sit here. I won't step on you or anything. I promise. All right. So I have some stories to share. And the approach I'm gonna take is telling you about some of the events, some of the publications and some of the networks that are available through the Library of Congress to, in fact, inspire students, and I'll talk about each one of them. But before I really dive in, what makes all of those programs, all of those events, all of those publications possible are the library's collections. How many of you are familiar with the Library of Congress and its collections? Excellent. How many of you, if I were to say what kind of collection objects are in the library? What answers would you throw out at me? >> Books. >> Lee Ann Potter: Books. Yeah, we have books. You don't want to hear something pretty fascinating, though. The library actually has more materials in media other than books. Than we have books. Fascinating, huh? So when I say other media, what do I mean? There are lots of hints up there, by the way. Yeah, there are lots of photographs. Something like, I don't know, 38 million of them or more. What other things? >> Manuscripts. >> Lee Ann Potter: Yes. Manuscripts and maps and architectural drawings and sound recordings and motion picture film. Every imaginable media from sheet music to locks of hair seriously are in the library's collections. And some of the items that I put up here are up here for a really specific reason, because they are connected to stories that teachers have told us about collection items that have inspired students. And so I'm gonna share some of those stories with you. This first one, the two images on this page are Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps. Have any of you ever worked with fire insurance maps? Okay. There's something like 750,000 of them now digitized on the library's website. So if you go on the library's website, loc.gov, and you select maps and you pick a community you are familiar with or curious about the chances of there being. Sanborn Maps related to that community is really high. And this particular teacher in Rye, New York, was working with second grade students, and she brought out facsimiles of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps for her community, and she shared them with her. Now, you know, second graders, those of you who are familiar with second graders, if you're focused on the social studies curriculum in most places for second grade, the curriculum focuses on neighborhoods and communities. So she thought, "Oh, this will be a great way to introduce my students visually to our community." So she brought out these fire insurance maps of Rye, New York, at about the turn of the last century, there around 1912, I think. And this was the quote we got from her when she described having used these materials with her kids. She said it was really great seeing how into it they were, the seven and eight year olds. They started buzzing that it was a map of Rye. And when I asked when the map was made, it really got them thinking. They realized that it was not recent. Some students found the date and yelled it out, and after they knew how old it was that it was so old, they got really excited into looking at the streets and excitedly pointed out when they knew a street or a particular place. Love that story. I love it because it's an opportunity for young people to connect to their community, to connect to their community's past, and to connect to primary source materials in a really authentic way. Good story, huh? Makes you wanna go look at Sanborn maps, doesn't it? All right. Next one. Like this one, too. This is a Spanish teacher. Spanish teacher in Michigan. My students were incredibly engaged in this activity. So let me tell you what the activity was. She asked her students, these are students who are just learning Spanish. And she says to them, "So where is Spanish spoken?" And what do you suppose our students said? They started rattling off all of these Latin American countries and Spain. And she said, "Well, that's of course all true." But then she shared with them photographs from the library's collection, dozens of them, that featured billboards, signs and other objects with Spanish language words on them, and asked her students to find the words and then make some educated guesses about where the photographs were taken. This particular one was in San Antonio, Texas, and the point of her lesson was to get her students thinking very broadly about language and where it's spoken. And this was what she told us. She said, "My students were incredibly engaged in this activity. There were many great discussions about what clues they could see in the photos that backed up what they thought. After we discussed all of the photos and they'd looked at them so deeply through primary source analysis, our conversations regarding the use of Spanish were much more informed." We want informed students. Okay. Next, good story. Love this one. So Lewis Hine was a photographer who worked for the Children's Bureau. And many of you have heard of him or seen his photographs. The focus was on child labor in the 19 teens. So this particular teacher, an eighth grade teacher in New York, does a unit on child labor at the turn of the last century. And she uses some of the Lewis Hine photographs and some of the manuscript items that are in the library's collection. And the story that she shared with us was this one. When we get to our lessons about child labor, there is always a chorus of students who say they would really rather be working than in school. This lesson definitely took away the glamour of making money as a kid instead of just sitting in school. Like that story. Next one. And I really do only have like 1 or 2 more good stories and then I'll dive into the resources. This one sort of blew us away. Are there any of you ever seen that photograph? Any guesses as to when the photograph might have been taken or where it might have been taken? It's exactly right. You wanna say that. >> Loading into the internment camps during World War II. >> Lee Ann Potter: That's exactly right. So in this in this photograph, this particular photograph was taken by a photographer working for the War Relocation Authority during the second World War. The image is of a child who's with his parents and they are all about to be sent to one of the Japanese internment camps. And this particular photograph really caught the attention of a teacher who works with at risk students. And he said, "This has been transformational. Students that previously acted out so that they could leave the classroom are now coming in and actively participating. I wish I could bottle this." But he had done was he had taken a series of those War Relocation Authority photographs to introduce them to something that was happening during World War II. And what the students were reacting to was really what we would describe as being, you know, as empathy. They were seeing an experience that maybe was in some ways familiar. And anyway, this particular teacher, we sort of, you know, in all of our surveys, they tell us a little bit about where they're teaching. This particular teacher is a teacher of at risk students in an alternative education environment and was describing the change that he witnessed in student engagement when he taught a unit about Japanese American internment during World War II, using primary sources from the library's collection. Like that photograph. Okay. So let me pause for a minute and just share with you that all of those educators that shared those stories with us had all participated in either a summer teacher institute at the library or had participated in some sort of professional development program offered by one of our teaching with primary sources grantees. And we have teaching with primary sources grantees all over the country. You all have a bookmark that has our URL on the back that says loc.gov/teachers. And one of the tabs on that page is focused on professional development. And on that tab you can find out more about those opportunities as well as webinars that are available, as well as recordings of past programs that are also available. So more events. If you go to loc.gov/events, you will find out about all kinds of events that the library sponsors, not just programs for educators, but events like the National Book Festival, events like programs that happen at the library on Thursday nights, like author lectures and programs that happen throughout the year, programs that are live streamed, programs that are recorded as well. That link to the professional development opportunities is again, it's easiest to just go to the teachers page and click on it or just to the events page. Recently, our informal learning office has begun offering virtual workshops for student audiences. Again, if you visit the library's website and you go to our visit page, one of the links is to virtual student workshops. This particular one that focuses on imagination is one of particular interest to teachers of students in grades three through five, and there are others that are in the works and they will be posted on that page as well. Have any of you participated in any of those? Just curious. They launched last year. Cool. All right. Some publications I want you to know about. How many of you are familiar with the library's website? Excellent. If you go to the teachers page, you'll find lots of great resources for educators. One of the important links off of that particular page, in addition to the professional development link, is a link to our "Teaching with the Library of Congress" blog. Actually, I could point out a few other things. I think I have a little laser thing on here. Maybe. Maybe. No. Oh, never mind. It didn't work. It's okay. I can point, though. So if you're on the page, you can learn about our teacher and residents programs, and I'll talk about that a little bit more in a minute. You can also learn about our teaching with primary sources partners and opportunities for grants from the library. You can also learn about approaches to collaborating with the library and you can contact us for more information. Up above the getting started with primary sources features are primary source analysis worksheets, as well as some activities that really get students started working with primary source materials and exploring the library's website. The classroom materials link will bring you to primary source sets that can come in very handy because the library's website really does have something like 38 million objects from the collections that are available. And we often go to conferences for educators. And when we tell them, "Oh, you're gonna love the library's website, there's 38 million objects." Some teachers say to us, "Oh, it's worse than I thought." And so those primary source sets really do come in handy because what we've done is we've sort of whittled them down a little bit. So instead of giving you the 40,000 objects on a particular subject, we've identified more like 20 that we think are really great, that are a good starting place. And that's what you'll find are under the classroom materials tab. And then finally, under the professional development tab, that's where you can find out about our summer teacher institutes, our workshops, our opportunities with teachers and residents and so forth. Did you know that there are more than 20 blogs published by the Library of Congress? Oh, if you're into maps, our Geography and Map Division has a blog. If you're into rare books, our Rare Book Division has a blog. If you are into manuscripts, our Manuscript Division has a blog. If you are a classroom teacher and you are looking for ideas and approaches to using the library's collections in your classroom, we have a blog for that. Honestly, we call it "Teaching with the Library of Congress Blog" and we publish to it about two times a week. And usually those blog posts are featuring a particular item in the library's collection that has caught our eye. And we are sharing it as a way of saying, hey, if you're teaching this, you might want to know about this. In every instance, we are providing links to the original materials as well as approaches and strategies for using them in a classroom. All right. Next. Oh, and you can subscribe to those blogs, so they'll come right to your inbox so you don't have to go looking for them. And we love that, by the way. And we love that people click through them and use them. My team and I also have some pretty interesting relationships with professional organizations that serve educators. We write regular features in the journals of the National Science Teaching Association, the National Council for the Social Studies and the National Association for Music Education. In every one of those cases, what we are trying to do is get the word out about the resources in the libraries, digital collections and approaches for using them in the classroom. Are any of you familiar with those associations, by the way? You are now. All right. There is an association for everything. You know that, right? It's an American thing, right? Okay. Another approach that the Library of Congress takes to inspiring different audiences is through our networks. And what I mean by networks are the various partnerships that exist between the Library of Congress and organizations all over the country. If any of you have visited our Roadmap to Reading today, you've gotten sort of a glimpse of some of those partnerships because one of our networks is our affiliated centers for the book, and that's who's represented over there, all of those organizations in the various states and territories. But we have other networks and they're ones worth knowing about. One of them is actually an online network. If you're a classroom teacher and you are interested in teaching with primary sources, we have a online community called our TPS Teachers Network, and a way of describing it is sort of like it's fun Facebook for teachers who like primary sources. So it's a really unique community. But the cool thing is, you know, I used to say that and we'd laugh and we'd say, you know, we got about 3000 people, maybe four. Now we're up to like 11,000 teachers who have registered and are part of that network. And it's beautiful 'cause they're sharing cool things that they find in the collection. And oftentimes they'll do just that. They'll just say, "Hey, I found this really cool map others might be interested," or "I found this amazing photograph collection I didn't know about," or "I'm teaching this thing next week. Do any of you have ideas for resources in the collection that I might use?" And the community is responding and we love that because our job is to sort of facilitate those conversations and make those resources available and then the community takes over. So if that sounds appealing to you, it's very easy to go online and just register for the site and become one of those, you know, nerdy primary source teachers like we are. Another network, as I mentioned, our affiliated centers for book. Have you all visited the Roadmap to Reading? Okay. I'm just telling you, if you do the whole roadmap and you stop at the ILMS booth, they'll give you a little reading lamp, like when you can click on a book and read in the middle of the night and not wake anybody up. You might wanna do that. Just saying. [Inaudible] That's true. That's true. It is true. New Hampshire is giving away little octopus things. Folks are giving away pencils. I think it's Vermont that's giving away maple candy. Yeah. I mean, there's all kinds of reasons to go over there. There we go. Another network that we're really about drawing attention to. For the last 11 years, the Library of Congress has been supported by David Rubenstein, who has provided funding for the Library of Congress Literacy Awards program. This program has allowed the library to identify more than 150 different organizations all over the United States and around the world that are doing incredible work in increasing literacy. The strategies that some of these organizations are using are so creative and so replicable that we love drawing attention to what they're doing. And one of the things that we added to our literacy awards website earlier this year is a really easy-to-use directory of all of the organizations that have been identified as winners and as honorees. On September the 8th, which happens to be International Literacy Day, the library will be announcing this year's winners and honorees. And in October, we are gonna be hosting an in-person program at the library that is called Our Literacy Successful Practices Conference. Much of that conference will be live streamed. All of it will be recorded. And information about all of those organizations is available. If you go to loc.gov/programs and you look for the literacy awards, you go to that site, that's where you'll find the directory of all these organizations that are doing really terrific work. And you probably know some of them because some of them are actually here. They're in our area by the sponsors. Some of those organizations that are focused on literacy have been literacy award winners and honorees. Another network of ours, I've mentioned it a couple of times, and that is our Teachers in Residence. So the library has had a program since 2000 where we partner with a school district somewhere in the United States and we bring a teacher to the Library of Congress to spend a year with us, to spend a school year. So instead of reporting to their campus, they actually come to our office at the library and they help us develop resources and relationships with and for teachers with a particular specialization in terms of content. So a few years ago, our music division was digitizing more and more collections. Nobody on our team is a music teacher. We needed a music teacher. So our Teachers in Residence application that year was looking for a music teacher. I can't tell you the value of roping in somebody who's really fired up about the collection and really knows how to engage students and have them work with you for a year. This program has allowed us to bring music teachers as well as science teachers, as well as social studies teachers, English language arts teachers, school librarians, a kindergarten teacher to the library to work with us and help us develop resources and programs and materials of use. That program I was mentioning, we have a teacher and residents joining us in about two weeks from Prince George's County, Maryland. It's a little unusual for us to have a relatively local teacher working with us for a year, but we're really excited about it. And this opportunity is sort of along the lines of another opportunity that we make available in partnership with the Department of Energy. For about the last six years, the library has worked with the Department of Energy's Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator program. Connie's nodding 'cause we've known them for a long time. The Einstein Fellow program that is sponsored by Energy is an amazing program that brings outstanding STEM teachers to federal government agencies to work with them for a year and bring the voice of a classroom teacher into an agency to really help us inspire teachers in different ways. We have an Einstein Fellow joining us in about a week. She is coming to us from Florida. She is a biology teacher. And again, we are super excited to be welcoming another teacher to work with us at the library to help us develop more resources for educators. And more information about those programs are available on our teachers website if there is interest. The application window for those programs, usually it opens up right at the beginning of January and applications are due at the end of February and we make our selection in March and get the ball rolling with the school district. Questions. Fire away. Thank you. [Inaudible] Certainly. She asked if we are examples of higher ed. Was gonna say, I didn't do that. You did that. The question was about relationships that the library has in terms of higher ed. Great question. Through our Teaching with Primary Sources grant program, quite a few of our grantees are actually working in higher ed. In many cases, they are working with methods professors or they're working with students at universities who want to go into education. And I can give you some specific organizations that are doing some of that work if you wanna visit later. But if you go on the website and you go to that area about the partners or you go into our network, you're gonna see lots of examples. When we do our summer teacher programming, we often have teacher educators participating in those programs as well. And in fact, just last Monday, we did a program at the Library for the Association of Teacher Educators because they were having their conference in Washington and some of our partners at the University of South Florida happened to be part of the conference, and we did a program based on their recommendation. So, excellent. Other questions? Yeah. [Inaudible] Excellent question. The library does not do anything like that, but there are lots of cultural institutions that do. One of the things I can really say with a very enthusiastic voice is that when you go on the library's website, particularly when you're going into like our primary source sets on the teachers page, everything that we select for those collections is either in the public domain or has no rights issues. And all of the scans are available in multiple resolutions. So you could get a very low resolution scan if all you need it for is a PowerPoint, or you can get a really high resolution scan in case you want to make almost a replica of that object to use in your classroom. Cool. Good question. Yeah. >> Tell us some more about your program with the Department of Energy. >> Lee Ann Potter: Sure, I'd be happy to. So the program with the Department of Energy, the program is called the Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellowship Program. It's sort of a mouthful. The Department of Energy has the authority to rope in other agencies to participate in this program. So in the coming year, not only will the Library of Congress be participating in the program, but there will also be offices on Capitol Hill as well as the Navy, as well as NOAA, as well as the National Science Foundation and NASA will all have... I think I got them all, seriously. Sometimes there are others, but I think that's this for this year. But what they're gonna do is they're gonna have outstanding STEM educators from across the country working with each of those agencies this year as a cohort of the Einstein fellows. And if you just do a Google search on Einstein fellows or you're into there, the program often uses social media to tell us what all of the fellows are up to. Oh, Smithsonian had one last year. The Smithsonian had one last year. And the reason I know that is because they were doing a professional development program. And I got to tag along and go to the garden over by the castle and learn about like species of butterflies that, you know, live on the National Mall. And it was great. But anyway, it's a terrific program for science teachers. And if you're interested, I'd really encourage you to look at the... and I have to say, the library's involvement in this program initially was a little... folks were like "Science, Library of Congress?" And I'll tell you, the science in the Library of Congress is mind blowing. We have the papers of the Wright Brothers. The library holds the papers of Alexander Graham Bell. The library holds the papers of Oppenheimer. The library... oh, and I've got an Oppenheimer story for you. So our teacher and... Our Einstein fellow this year was from Princeton High School in Princeton, New Jersey. Okay. So we told a colleague of ours in the Manuscript Division, "Hey, our new Einstein fellow has just arrived, please, this is," I gave him literally a paragraph on her. You know, she's a science teacher. She teaches biology and chemistry, blah, blah, blah, blah. She teaches at Princeton High School. We go down to visit him. He is pulled out about 10 different objects from the Manuscript Division to show her. One of the items is a letter from 1965 from students at Princeton High School to Oppenheimer. And she says they haven't changed the letterhead. It's fabulous. But it was a very cool letter. It was such a neat story because these kids had written to Oppenheimer asking him why they should study Latin. Okay. The question was, why should students study Latin? And they had written this question to people like Oppenheimer, like lots of people and gotten answers. And these kids had put together a talk about authentic, like project based learning, you know, buzzword. Right. These kids had written these letters to all of these famous people asking them, should we learn Latin and why? And they wrote back and the kids had compiled all of the responses. And so this particular item in the Oppenheimer papers was the letter from students thanking him and giving him a copy of the publication they had come up with based on his response and others. And I have to tell you, our Einstein fellows mind was absolutely blown because, you know, in her science classroom, research happens in her biology lab. When she was with us, research changed a little bit. She had an opportunity to work with different kinds of research, different kinds of collections. And the other thing was there's a lot of science going on at the library. Those of you who have been in these sessions today have sort of gotten a sense of that,I think, especially if you've had a chance to visit with some of our preservation and research folks. Our conservation and preservation labs at the library are doing great science. So in any case, science not only lives at the library, but happens at the library. And when we can bring a science teacher into it, we love it. >> Was the answer from Oppenheimer and the others to study Latin... >> Lee Ann Potter: Yes. >> I took four years in high school and two years in college, and to this day I'm wondering, what was I thinking? >> Lee Ann Potter: Oh, but you can probably do crossword puzzles really well, right? >> It helped with the law. But in terms of speaking a language, a live language. But I guess for scientific purposes, it was good. >> Lee Ann Potter: Yeah, that's exactly what his response was. >> The discipline, yeah. >> Lee Ann Potter: Yeah, it was. Isn't that cool, though? It was so neat. Oh, my gosh. I mean, not every high school letterhead is in the collection, but wow, when it is. That was cool. All right, others. >> Two completely polar opposite questions. One, how do you provide housing for these people who are here for a year? And two, what do you have for adult literacy? >> Lee Ann Potter: Okay. Excellent question. So as far as housing, we do provide our teachers in residence who are from out of the area with a partial housing stipend because we know that the likelihood that you're gonna like drop everything and, you know, head out, but we do help. And it's good. It's not wow, you're not gonna live in a mansion, you know. But we will make sure you survive. And your school district continues to pay your salary and your benefits. So you're still an employee of your district. That's the way we do it. And your second question about adult literacy, I would really encourage you to go to our Literacy awards program website and take a look at all of these different organizations around the world, around the country, who are doing amazing work. Everyone in that directory you can link directly to that organization's website and find out more about what they're doing. Amazing resource, really. There's more than 150 organizations there. Others, Yes. >> I am very curious where you'd like to go from here. You've accomplished so much already. >> Lee Ann Potter: Fine. Well, I have to say, every time I talk to our affiliated center for the book partners, I get all excited because, for example, our affiliated center for the book in Ohio is housed at the Cleveland Public Library, and they're a very creative public library. And they have recently started a podcast about literary initiatives in Ohio. And it's fabulous and things like that that our partners are doing get us pretty excited. There are other partners, again, many of our either affiliated centers for the book or our teaching with primary sources, partners that are developing apps or online interactives that focus on topics like voting and other civic responsibilities. We get pretty excited about that. As collections get digitized, what we are able to do with those collections continues to grow. So every time one of our custodial divisions at the library says, "Hey, we're gonna be digitizing this next," again, we get super excited. Rumor has it the next transcription project is actually gonna be involving sheet music and song lyrics. That's cool. So again, I think we get we get often driven by what partners are doing and what we can help enable either with grants or partnerships or collections. So good question. Yeah. >> Yes. Can you tell me about African American experience in America. >> Lee Ann Potter: Just the whole thing. You want it all. I love that. Okay, so a few years ago, the Library of Congress acquired the papers of Rosa Parks, and this is one of those collections that is so fabulous because, well, it's fabulous because it's described beautifully, because the processing archivist who worked with the collection and what a processing archivist does is they're the ones who take a collection that has an interesting organization and organizes it in a way to make it useful to researchers. And the thing about the Rosa Parks papers is Rosa Parks saved things like church bulletins, and the reason they became part of her papers isn't just because they were church bulletins. It's because she wrote on them. The insight we have into Rosa Parks and what she's thinking about while she's listening to a sermon are part of her papers. She also in her collection, and I'm sure some of you have seen this, she also wrote things on the backs of envelopes and on other scraps of paper. And one of the backs of envelopes in those papers include a recipe for peanut butter pancakes. Amazing. They probably talked about it, didn't they? And I'm telling you, that recipe, those are the greatest pancakes ever. But as far as the collections go, not only does... and that whole collection has been digitized and her membership cards are in that collection. So we've done workshops with teachers where we've shared Rosa Parks membership cards. And we have removed her name from them and simply asked, what do these membership cards tell you about this person? And they come up with all of these amazing responses, and then we share with them. They're all Rosa Parks. Awesome, right? But you asked about the whole African American experience. And as far as the library's collections go, the library holds the papers of Frederick Douglass. They've all been digitized. The library holds collections of so many individual Americans, and more and more, the library is trying to digitize these and not just the manuscript collections, but the sheet music. So sheet music from African-American composers, part of the library's collection through the various blogs on the library's website, depending on the search term. The beauty of the blogs is you can go to that blog page and you can search just the blogs and find out what our colleagues in different divisions are uncovering within the collections. So you can find all kinds of things. Yeah. And like 7000-- >> Yeah, the African-American [Inaudible] >> Lee Ann Potter: Ventures, that's exactly right, yeah Talk to Connie. She worked at the library for 50 years. She can tell you a thing or two. >> Yeah, this was one of the originals [Inaudible] >> Lee Ann Potter: Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And actually, we hold the papers of the NAACP. Isn't this a fun game? Yeah. Fire away. Give me more. This is good. I like this. Have you got this? And I can say what's a matter of fact? Seriously, yeah. [Inaudible] >> Lee Ann Potter: I wish I could remember. The quote exactly. This is a good American Library Association quote about how a really good library has something to offend everyone. Have you ever heard that? That, great. So, yeah, there's something to offend everyone at the Library of Congress. We're just really careful when it comes to the materials that we put on display and the approach that we take. And I would encourage you to visit with colleagues in all of our different divisions that are represented here and ask them for things like that. I'm sure they'd love to tell you what's in the collections. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing in particular? Mmhmm. All right. My time is up. Thank you all. If you have extra questions, I'm happy to just stand over here. If you are a classroom teacher or I think the bookmarks may still be over there. If you need more, please take them and hand them to your students. And thank you. Thanks for sticking around. Enjoy the rest of the book festival. Awesome, thank you. [Upbeat music]