Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | February 28, 2009
One hundred years ago, twenty-one-year-old Alice Ramsey left Broadway Avenue in New York City with three female companions to drive across the country in a Maxwell DA automobile. Alice became the first woman to make that transcontinental journey by car. This year, others are celebrating her milestone: “In 2005, Richard Anderson, a Pacific Northwest antique [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | February 17, 2009
In honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday anniversary last week, my husband and I dug into the far corners of our basement shelves for two Lincoln prints that we had inherited a number of years ago. We had been watching every Lincoln special we could find on our local PBS station, and we were curious [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | February 12, 2009
The Library of Congress opens its exhibit today in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday–With Malice toward None. You can divide your classes into groups to explore each of the ten vignettes from different periods of Lincoln’s life. There’s also a notice on the Web site that two interactive exhibits (always a favorite of students) [...]
Mary, The Primary Source Librarian | February 7, 2009
A week ago I had an opportunity to present and facilitate at Librarian Days 2009, a two-day workshop organized each year by Teaching with Primary Sources–Colorado (TPS–Colorado). The TPS folks do such an amazing job! This year we based much of the event on the inquiry learning expertise of Leslie Maniotes, co-author (with Carol C. [...]