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Fwd: Soviet Archive Exhibit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Summerhill)
Tue Jun 23 09:54:03 1992
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1992 08:48:27 CDT
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
From: "Craig A. Summerhill" <craig@cni.org>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
By accident, I stumbled upon this note which had been posted to the
ARCHIVES@INDYCMS list. I checked back through the last month of PACS-L
postings, and couldn't see that it had been posted here. I thought this
might be of interest to the PACS-L readership.
Craig A. Summerhill, Systems Coordinator
Coalition for Networked Information
Internet: craig@cni.org
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> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 16:00:00 -0500
> Sender: Archives & Archivists <ARCHIVES@INDYCMS.BITNET>
> From: John B Harlan <JBHARLAN@INDYVAX.IUPUI.EDU>
> Subject: Fwd: Soviet Archive Exhibit
>
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> Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 15:30:54 EST
> From: usmarc-l@RGUE.LOC.GOV
> Subject: Soviet Archive Exhibit
> Sender: Russia & her neighbors <RUSSIA@INDYCMS.IUPUI.EDU>
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> On June 17th, the Library of Congress will open an exhibit
> in the James Madison Memorial building of approximately 300
> historically significant documents, photographs, and film clips
> from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the KGB, and other
> Soviet archives.
>
> In addition, the Library will also digitize significant
> portions of about twenty -five documents, with translations, and
> distribute them as a national online exhibit that begins on the
> same day as the exhibit opening. The online exhibit will contain
> accompanying text, translations, captions, and graphic images for
> each of the documents included. The documents are available for
> personal study by scholars and students, and not for publication.
> Other exhibit information presented will be available for copying
> and subsequent use.
>
> The online exhibit will be available in three services, all
> of which will be available on June 17, 1992. America Online
> (AOL), a nationally-recognized commercial service, will provide
> one distribution network for the exhibit, Internet will provide
> another, and Sovset, an international computer network for
> Russian and East European studies will provide the third.
>
> Through the use of text, message boards, libraries,
> "conference rooms," polls and surveys, AOL will assist the
> Library of Congress in its endeavor to make a major exhibit
> available to the public through the technology of online
> services. AOL allows for real time communications and the
> ability to engage in E-mail discussion of the documents. AOL's
> "The Library of Congress Online" will mark the first time that a
> true nationwide dialog on a landmark exhibit has been made
> possible, and the first time that a simultaneous electronic
> surrogate exhibition has been presented by a museum or library.
>
> On Thursday June 18th from 1-3pm, Dr. James H. Billington,
> the Librarian of Congress, Dr. Rudolph G. Pikhoia, chairman of
> the Committee on Archival Affairs of the Russian Federation, and
> General Dmitrii Volkogonov, head of the KGB Archive, will
> participate in an on-line computer forum on America Online. The
> Library invites scholars, educators, students, and the general
> public across the United States to join this discussion of the
> exhibit and the opening of the Soviet Archives. America Online
> will provide free membership software and 5 hours of online use
> without charge upon request for those who are not now members.
>
> Those with access to Internet can obtain all of the text and
> graphic files that make up the online exhibit, but will not be
> able to hold real time conferences. The FTP files available from
> a mini-computer at the Library of Congress will require passwords
> that the Library will release and publicize on the opening day of
> the exhibit, June 17. However, the Library hopes that the
> exhibit will spark lively and informative exchanges of E-Mail and
> discussions in existing BITNET listserv forums. Library staff
> will monitor the discussions and seek to answer questions that
> may arise. The forums that LC will monitor are Sovset (which
> requires paid membership); Talk.politics.soviet (on BITNET from
> listserv@indycms under the list name TPS-L); Soc.culture.soviet
> (on BITNET via listserv@indycms under SCS-L); and RUSSIA (Russia
> and Her Neighbors List, through BITNET listserv@indycms on CREN
> and listserv@indycms.iupui.edu on the Internet).
>
> Sovset is accessible over the Internet, CompuServe, and
> Telenet. Sovset's purpose is to encourage communication, data
> sharing, and collaboration on projects between research
> communities in the field. The three basic services offered by
> Sovset are computer conferencing, a data library, and electronic
> mail.
>
> Those visiting the exhibit can view it in its electronic
> form in either the National Demonstration Lab on the first floor
> of the Madison building or in the Machine Readable Collections
> Reading Room, which is located on the ground floor of the
> Jefferson building (LJ G22).
>
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