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LC to hold Ameritech Workshops at ALA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Virginia D. Sorkin)
Fri Jun 20 20:28:22 1997
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 17:03:44 -0500
From: "Virginia D. Sorkin" <vsor@loc.gov>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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June 18, 1997
Contact: Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS/AMERITECH NATIONAL DIGITAL LIBRARY COMPETITION
WORKSHOPS TO BE HELD DURING AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION MEETING
Workshops on applying for awards from the Library of Congress/Ameritech
National Digital Library Competition for 1997/98 will be held during the
Annual Convention of the American Library Association in San Francisco.
The workshops will cover the eligibility requirements, the evaluation
process and criteria, how to make proposals competitive and technical
requirements. Applications will be available in July, with completed
applications due Nov. 3, 1997 (postmark). .
The workshops will be held:
June 28, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m., Moscone Convention Center, Room 226
June 29, 9:30 a.m. - 11 a.m., Moscone Convention Center, Room 256
Program staff will also be available in the Library's exhibit booth, No.
3016, from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., June 28-June 30, to answer questions. A new
brochure describing the competition will be available at the exhibit booth
and during the workshops.
A $2 million gift from the Ameritech Foundation
(http://www.ameritech.com) to the Library of Congress is enabling U.S.
institutions to apply for awards to digitize their unique collections in
American history and -- for the first time -- make them a part of the
Library's on-line collections, called American Memory.
This is the second year of a three-year program (details of the 1996-97
Competition are available from the Library of Congress Web site at
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/). The 1996/97 winners are institutions
both large and small from across the United States. Their collections to be
placed on-line represent a diversity of subjects in American history for the
period 1850-1920.
The National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress aims to
make freely available over the Internet millions of items by the year 2000,
in collaboration with other institutions. Ameritech's contribution will
help the Library meet that goal by providing funds to libraries, museums,
archives and historical societies to aid them in the critical, yet
expensive, task of making their unique collections available to anyone with
access to the World Wide Web.
PR97-111
6-18-97
ISSN 0731-3527
Guy Lamolinara
glam@loc.gov
(202) 707-9217 (phone)
(202) 707-9199 (fax)
