NYC Public School 174

Public School 174 Queens, located in Rego Park in New York City, is named after the 19th century American painter William Sidney Mount. It's a school heavily committed to the arts and we have modern dance and ballroom dance programs, collaborations with many of NYC's art institutions, botanical gardens and the new NY Historical Society. The school is also international and we speak many languages. Our borough of Queens is known as one of the most diverse areas in the United States. We are also proud of the fact that Queens has one of the largest public library systems in the country and our libraries are among those with the highest circulation of any library system in the U.S. (We're guessing we’re second only to the Library of Congress.)

Here are some things we said when we found out about the web archiving project:

“Being part of the Library of Congress Web Archiving project was a dream come true. I got a second chance because we participated in third grade! I loved looking up and archiving websites to add to my collection. I learned a lot of things from this, such as how to crawl websites and what the hard parts of archiving were.”

“Doing a project based on archiving is not as easy as it looks. It takes a lot more skills to finish a job like this. My Library of Congress Web Archiving experience was amazing and will always be archived in my mind.”

“Participating in the Library of Congress Web Archiving project helped us learn more about our modern day technology and what we really wanted to save.”

“The Library of Congress Web Archiving Project was a fun while difficult experience. I enjoyed searching for all of the websites in the many different categories we had. The day we finished we were very happy We all jumped up And high-fived. I think the project improved my research skills a great deal. Trying to find all of the different websites and writing descriptions for all of them was a great way to improve my thinking. Overall, I think the project was a great experience and helped me very much.

By the way, the project in third grade was very different. The format had changed a bit and was improved greatly. I also was able to do more because I am older.”

Note: Teacher Neme Alperstein has been privileged to participate in this incredible program before, in fact with the same students just two years before. Neme writes “This project was especially interesting because I had the students in third grade. How they have grown! It was interesting to see how the management styles and insights, choices and more took shape with the same group, only 2 years older.”

Visit NYC Public School 174's 2012-13 Web Archiving Page

Visit NYC Public School 174's 2011-12 Web Archiving Page


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