Libraries & Librarians

Resources for Middle Level Educators

November 5, 2026

Staff from the Library of Congress will be in Nashville, exhibiting and presenting, at the annual conference of the Association for Middle Level Education (AMLE), November 5-6, 2026. Visit us in booth 304/306 on the exhibit floor. We’ll have representatives from the Library’s education team and the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled — a free national library program that provides braille and recorded materials to people who cannot read or handle print material — to answer your questions about the Library’s programs and resources.

On Thursday, November 5, education staff will present a Spark and Tell session on “Engaging with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress” from 10:40-11:10 a.m. in Delta Mezzanine 4. The session will introduce a sample of the rich materials available online from the Library of Congress, model teaching strategies for incorporating primary sources, and conclude with a tour of shortcuts to finding resources.

Highlights of available resources include:

Teachers Site – resources and strategies for educators, including themed primary source sets, self-paced learning modules, and the Teaching with the Library blog.
Free to Use and Reuse Sets – curated collections of digital images on a variety of topics.
Blogs.loc.gov – additional blogs, written by experts at various Library divisions, such as rare books, manuscripts, maps and more.
Veterans History Project – Library initiative that collects, preserves, and displays the firsthand recollections of U.S. military veterans.
The By the People crowdsourced transcription program
National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled – a free national library program that provides braille and recorded materials to people who cannot read handle print materials.

To learn more and practice strategies for using primary sources with K-12 students, join us onsite at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. for a free three-day professional development workshop. Two sessions will be offered in the summer of 2027: