TOPEKA — The world’s largest library partnered with the Kansas State Department of Education to embark on a tour through four cities with demonstrations on local history and community events.
Educators from the Library of Congress are scheduled to visit public libraries and museums in Hutchinson and Scott City in February and Girard and Lawrence in April. In those cities, educators will host workshops for teachers and school librarians and free events open to the public. Those events will include sessions on genealogy, veterans’ history, agricultural history, old newspaper records, transportation and creative works from the New Deal.
“The Library of Congress is truly a library for all,” said Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, in a news release. “Holding more than 178 million items in its collections, the Library offers perhaps the most comprehensive collection of human knowledge ever assembled in one place.”
The library’s goal is to show rural educators and community members the vast primary sources available in the library’s free, digitized collections.
“This important learning initiative showcases the ways people can experience the depth and breadth of what the library collects, preserves and makes available, all from their own communities,” Hayden said.