Part II: Develop Technical Skills for LOC.gov Patrons

Part II offers step by step guides to the technical skills needed to use the millions of digital resources at LOC.gov. Technical skills help patrons take advantage of the potential of teaching with digital resources. Patron technical skills may vary from basic computer operations to the ability to manipulate digital primary sources. This section highlights technical skills with different levels of difficulty used to save item information at LOC.gov. Some technical skills are unique to the Web site LOC.gov  while other skills are routinely used by Internet users.

Library of Congress PATRON ACTIONS VISITOR RESEARCHER
Visitor skills, plus:		 DOCENT
Visitor and Researcher skills, plus:

Uses technology

Prof. B. Anisimov and students by an electronic quick calculating machine URAL-2 at Moscow's Higher Techincal School named after Bauman

"Prof. B. Anisimov and students by an electronic quick calculating machine "URAL-2" at Moscow's Higher Techincal School named after Bauman" (1960). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Prints primary sources from Library of Congress Web pages
  • Saves primary sources
  • Saves exact title of primary sources
  • Inserts and resizes primary sources in Word and PowerPoint
  • Saves primary source URLs
  • Uses technology to find new ways for students to examine primary sources