Message-Id: <199904301447.HAA42720@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:53:15 -0400 From: Tamara Swora-Gober <mailto:tswo@LOC.GOV> Subject: LC National Digital Library-Ameritech Competition Winners To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
This message has been widely posted***************************************** Announcement of Library of Congress-Ameritech National Digital Library Competition Award Winners
Thanks to a generous gift from the Ameritech Corporation, over the past three years the Library of Congress has sponsored a competition to enable public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resources. These digital collections are incorporated into the National Digital Library. The Ameritech program has helped to connect libraries of different sizes and scope and also brings together important historical documents dispersed among institutions throughout the United States.
In this the final year of the grant program, grants were awarded to six institutions. Information about the winners can be found at the following url http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html.
Information about the program including lists of previous winners can be found at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html
The winners are: (in alphabetical order of lead institution)
Lee Library, Brigham Young University with the Utah Academic Library Consortium, and the Utah State Historical Society
Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869 155 items (approximately 6,040 pages) from 59 diaries of overland trail experiences written between 1847 and 1869, along with 16 maps, 75 photographs and illustrations, and selections from 5 immigrant guides.
Michigan State University with Central Michigan University
Shaping the Values of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School Book Collection 121 American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865 by The American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and other religious publishers to teach juvenile readers moral conduct and good citizenship.
Mystic Seaport Museum
Maritime Westward Expansion 7,500 items from the archival collections dating from the mid to late nineteenth century, including logbooks, diaries, letters, business papers and other manuscript items, images, imprints and ephemera, and maps and charts offering a unique maritime perspective on the history of westward expansion in the U.S.
The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with the California Historical Society
Chinese in California, 1850-1920 12,500 items, including photographs, cartoons, personal diaries, business records, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed matter documenting nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration to California and the West.
University of Chicago Library with the Filson Club Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 745 items (15,050 pages) from the rare books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett and by the Filson Club Historical Society, documenting the settlement of Ohio River Valley from 1750 to 1820. [Also winners in 1996/97]
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Church in The Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920 19,000 pages from approximately 100 works, including autobiographies, sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and denominational histories, tracing the experience of Southern African Americans and the transformation of Protestant Christianity into the central institution of black community life. [Also winners in 1996/97.]