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Presented at the 21st Century Children's Nonfiction Conference June 20-22, 2014 at SUNY New Paltz. All presentations from the 21st Century Nonfiction Conference on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aedwright/presentations. Presentations on: * new trends and opportunities in nonfiction for children * common core in school and public libraries * nonfiction comics for kids * making it to the shelf: getting your nonfiction noticed * primary sources for kids
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Amie Wright New York Public Library
21st Century Children’s Nonfiction Conference
June 20-22, 2014
Bringing Primary Source Materials to Children: What Library Archives and Museums Can Offer You
Primary Sources
1)How to talk about primary sources with kids
2)How to talk about primary sources with teachers
3)New tools for primary sources
4)Cool stuff!
‘A Picture Never Lies’…right?
Primary sources are the product of the time they were created, and the product of the people who create them – they are not foolproof signposts to history that we often think they are.
Primary Sources for Kids
Tap into their interests…
Primary Sources for Teachers
Show them how to make connections…
Cool Stuff
NYPL Online Exhibitions
NYPL Digital Collections – over 800,000 items!
NYPL Archives & Manuscripts - over 50,000 linear ft of material!
NYPL Classroom Connections – primary source common core aligned units for teachers by teachers
NYPL Digital Projects – includes crowdsourced Map Warper and What’s on the Menu, plus The World’s Fair
More Cool Stuff
Veterans Oral History Project Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn Connections - Brooklyn Public Library school outreach initiative to bring primary sources to kids!
British Library Flickr photo stream – over 1,000,000 public domain photographs
Primary Source Topic Sets - from the Library of Congress
Questions?
Amie Wright [email protected]
All presentations from the 21st Century Nonfiction Conference on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/aedwright/presentations
I almost went the whole presentation without mentioning dogs! So here’s a dog, ‘Dewey’ the mascot for the NY 69 th Regiment during the Spanish-American War (NYPL Digital Collections)
