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Over the past school year at the LOC, I have had the opportunity to explore so many divisions! Each division has artifacts that I never expected to find. In the Manuscript Division, I learned about born digital artifacts. These are items that are part of collections that were created in a digital format. Because so much of our recent history has been integrated with technology there is a growing collection of born digital items at the LOC. I spent some time exploring the born digital items in the Nina Fedoroff and Elizabeth Blackburn collection. This album contains a few of the items that I found! If you explore the Finding Aids of other collections and come across born digital files you are interested in, use the "Ask a Librarian" feature to request an email of the file!
Two helpful blog posts:
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Jacqueline Katz
, I thought the Researchers Perspective blog post you mentioned was interesting in that it featured items that, while not born digital, came to the Library as digital scans. This reminded me of some outstanding albums previously created in the Network around scientific notebooks. Here are two that might be of interest to you:
STEM Notebooks - an album created by 
Matt Johnson
for a 2018 teacher workshop
Notable Notebooks! - an album created by former Einstein Fellow 
Kellie Taylor
Mary Johnson
it is like you read my mind! I have been doing some digging into science notebooks and the various ways they can be utilized. I am hoping to put together a blog post that highlights some of the "less conventional" uses of scientific notebooks. Sometimes in the classroom science notebooks can become very rigid in format, but in the examples I have seen at the LOC there are many creative (and sometimes seemingly random) entries in these notebooks. These albums are incredibly helpful!
You might also be interested in this post by Tom Bober from before his stint as an LOC Teacher in Residence - Teaching Now: Analyzing Primary Sources for Scientific Thinking & Organization.
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