Below is a list of capabilities or applications your computer must possess in order to take full advantage of the LOC and successfully complete our lessons.
You can click on the links provided to download free plugins and applications which will allow you to explore all aspects of our program and the Library of Congress.
All resources are free, simple to download and considered safe to use.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer, 6.0
All of our lessons have been successfully tested on a variety of browsers. However, IE 6.0 generally provides the most reliable viewing of lesson and LOC content. Newer computers running Windows XP will likely already have this web browser installed.
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Windows Media Player, 9.0 or higher
Microsoft Windows Media Player® allows the user to listen to several different audio and video file formats, such as .MP3 and .WAV files (audio) and .MPEG files (video). A large portion of the audio and video files presented by the American Memory collections on the Library of Congress web site are one of these two formats.
Newer computers running Windows XP are likely to have Windows Media Player already.
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Macromedia Flash Player, 7.0
The Flash Player is a common and extremely useful browser plugin. Most newer computers running Windows have a version of the Flash Player already installed,
but you may need to download this recent version.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader
The Adobe Acrobat Reader is the standard application for displaying, printing and creating the popular .pdf file format. This format is used frequently on the LOC and in our newsletters and ed-u-bits.
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Macromedia Shockwave Player
The Macromedia Shockwave Player enables the user to view and interact with sosphisticated, cutting-edge multimedia content.
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Expressview (MrSID)
LizardTech ExpressView® allows the user to view extremely high-resolution images on the Internet, using a special kind of image compression technology. A majority of the maps that are presented by the American Memory collections on the Library of Congress web site are compressed using this technology.
While this application is not used in the AAM Online lessons, the LOC makes extensive use of this technology.
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