Milner Library Featured on Library of Congress Web site

The Library of Congress Web site is currently featuring Illinois State University's Milner Library in its TPS Consortium Member Showcase.   The Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Program of the Library of Congress, in which ISU was part of the pilot program in 2004, is an educational consortium of schools, universities, libraries and foundations to help teachers use the Library's vast collection of digitized primary sources to enrich their classroom instruction.

The on-line feature can be viewed at http://www.loc.gov/teachers/tps/consortium/showcase/archive/illinoisstate.html

The article notes out that the TPS-ISU program, the only one in the consortium facilitated by an academic library, includes Milner faculty working with TPS-ISU staff to provide opportunities to work with students and teachers who visit traveling exhibitions hosted by the library.  Examples given include the "Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation" exhibition two years ago and the upcoming "John Adams Unbound," which opens next month.

Coincidentally, President John Adams signed the bill creating the Library of Congress in 1800.