Design considerations for the Library of Congress Learning Page: providing learners context and access to the collections. (World Wide Web site)(Children and the Digital Library)

From: Library Trends | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

The Library of Congress took into consideration teachers, students, computer skills and the goal of increasing awareness of the use of primary information sources when designing its Learning Page. The Web site includes five Pathfinder Pages on topics, time, places, people and events.

Abstract

The Learning Page of the Library of Congress (LC) ( ) was created using an Instructional Systems Design (ISD) analysis of LC's requirements; the needs of the target audience; and the tasks and skills necessary to access American Memory, LC's digitized historical collections on the World ...

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