Description (February 6, 2006)

British Museum Online Gallery: Turning Pages - The British Library contains many millions of books, manuscripts, maps, newspapers, magazines, patents, music scores, sound recordings, photographs and stamps. On this unique website you will find 15 of these treasures which you can leaf through by turning the pages. Read such works as Mozart's Muscial Diary and listen to excerpts of his music, the original Alice in Wonderland, Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbook, Jane Austin, illuminated manuscripts, etc.

Curriculum Integration

• Instructions for accessing: The Screen Resolution of your computer might have to be adjusted so that you can see the entire screen including the control bar at the bottom of each work. It is well worth the effort to do this. If you do not, and cannot see the control bar, use Keyboard shortcuts:
  A - turns audio commentary on and off
  + - turns the magnifying glass on and off
  T - turns the dynamic text panel on and off
  Enter - back to the beginning
  Left and right arrows - page forward and page back
  
  
• Open one of the books of interest. Listen to the audio, magnify pages of interest. Does this technology enhance your understanding of the subject? In what ways?
• Investigate the digitized world on the Internet.