Message-Id: <199608151930.OAA02558@library.wustl.edu> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 15:25:24 -0400 From: Martha Feldman <mailto:mfeldman@NAL.USDA.GOV> Subject: LC/Ameritech National Digital Library competition (fwd) To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
I thought the attached message would be of interest to members of the list.***************************** Martha Feldman Information Systems Division National Agricultural Library Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2351 Internet: mailto:mfeldman@nal.usda.gov Phone: (301) 504-5936 Fax: (301) 504-7473 *******************************
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 15:59:28 -0700 From: Barbara A. Paulson <mailto:bpau@loc.gov> To: Multiple recipients of list <mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu> Subject: LC/Ameritech National Digital Library competition
With a gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress is sponsoring an open competition to enable public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies and archival institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of primary resource material for distribution on the Internet in a manner that will augment the collections of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress. The National Digital Library is conceived as a distributed collection of converted library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions will contribute. The Library of Congress's contribution to this World Wide Web-based virtual library is called American Memory and is created by the Library's National Digital Library Program.
In the 1996-97 competition, applications will be limited to collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate the period 1850-1920 and that complement and enhance the American Memory collections already mounted in the National Digital Library. The deadline for applications is November 1, 1996 (postmark).
Awards will range from $50,000 to $75,000 for projects that can be accomplished in twelve to eighteen months. Repositories in the United States with collections of primary resource material that are significant for education and research in United States history and culture are encouraged to apply.
Guidelines and application instructions for the LC/Ameritech National Digital Library competition will be available in hard copy August 19. Current information may be found at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/, where the guidelines and application instructions will also be posted August 19.
Barbara A. Paulson Library of Congress Washington DC 20540-4780 tel: (202) 707-1087 fax: (202) 707-6336 e-mail: mailto:bpau@loc.gov