SIUC's Hostetler Named to Library of Congress Panel

Southern Illinois University at Carbondale issued the following Weekly Communique from the president's office:

An expert in digital resources and distance learning from SIUC has been named to a national panel aiming to help public school teachers use the Library of Congress' vast online collections in making lessons come alive. Jerry C. Hostetler, a visiting assistant professor in SIUC's College of Education and Human Services, met with 13 other education professionals this month at the library in Washington, D.C., to begin work on Internet-based instruction modules that will familiarize users with the library's Web site, introduce them to the digitized media most useful to teachers and demonstrate the use of that material in "learning experiences." The Library of Congress, a world-renowned repository for books, manuscripts, letters, legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, films, maps, sheet music, sound recordings, moving images, photographs, posters, prints and drawings, has created nearly 14 million digital files of its 138 million holdings, with more being added all the time.

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