[1] From: Claire Jones <cjones@MCB.CO.UK> (20)
Subject: Electronic Publishing Discussion Forum
[2] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (119)
Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON
COPYRIGHT BILL
[3] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (361)
Subject: IMLS Announces First National Leadership Grants
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 16:19:07 +0100 (BST)
From: Claire Jones <cjones@MCB.CO.UK>
Subject: Electronic Publishing Discussion Forum
Electronic Publishing Discussion Forum
Internet Free-Press http://www.free-press.com
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For those of you involved or interested in the field of electronic
publishing why not take a look at 'Talkback', the online discussion forum of
the Internet Free-Press. Previous discussions have included topics such as:
'What Makes a Good E-Journal?' 'Netiquette'
'Internet at Work' 'Death of the Music Industry?'
'Tangible Information' 'Best of the Web'
'Hoax E-mails' 'How Do You Get There?'
And selected quotes from postings include:
"... a different angle on the PDF v HTML debate"
"There seems to be an epidemic of these hoax e-mail messages"
"... e-drums in Cyberspace"
"I hope books will always be around - curling up in bed with a floppy disk
just wouldn't be the same!"
Why not take a look in and post your own comments and queries?
Access the site at http://www.free-press.com then follow the links to
'Forums' and 'Talkback'.
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:54:10 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 28, 1998
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CALL TO ACTION ON COPYRIGHT BILL
Senate/House Conference Committee Reports This Week
I'm forwarding the ALA Call for Responses to the current WIPO Copyright
Bill now before the conference committee. The two principal issues are that
the resultant bill a) should keep the House version's protection of Fair
Use (the Senate version had no such protection) and b) that it drop the
added "database protection" legislation.
David Green
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>Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:29:06 -0400
>From: "ALAWASH E-MAIL (ALAWASH E-MAIL)" <ALAWASH@alawash.org>
>To: ALA Washington Office Newsline <ala-wo@ala1.ala.org>
>> FINAL STAGES
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>ALAWON Volume 7, Number 113
>ISSN 1069-7799 September 28, 1998
>
> American Library Association Washington Office Newsline
>
>In this issue: (102 lines)
>
>- URGENT!!!
> HELP PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS:
> IT'S "NOW OR (PERHAPS) NEVERMORE" . . .
>_________________________________________________________________
>
> HELP PRESERVE THE FUTURE OF FAIR USE AND DATABASE ACCESS:
> IT'S "NOW OR (PERHAPS) NEVERMORE" . . .
>
>Thanks to those of you who have responded to the Washington
>Office's latest copyright legislation alert (ALAWON vol. 7, #106,
>Sept. 15, 1998) by contacting Congress. It's official. The
>"Digital Millennium Copyright Act" (H.R. 2281) is now before a
>Senate/House Conference Committee that's poised to act fast. The
>Committee met for the first time late last Thursday and could
>meet for the **last** time as early as Tuesday, Sept. 29!
>
>Even if you've never contacted Congress before, now is the time
>to phone and fax all members of the Conference Committee listed
>below (especially if you are a constituent) to ask that they:
>
>(1) SUPPORT **no less protection for fair use** than that
>afforded by the House's version of H.R. 2281 (the Senate's
>version contains no fair use protection at all); AND
>
>(2) OPPOSE the inclusion of any "database protection" legislation
>in the final version of the bill (Title V of the House bill
>addresses this issue; the Senate bill is silent).
>
>It's also urgent that both of your Senators -- even though
>neither may be on the Conference Committee -- be asked to contact
>Senate conference committee leaders Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and
>Patrick Leahy (D-VT) immediately to relay the two critical
>messages above. For on-line sample letters, e-mail connections
>to your Members of Congress and more background information,
>please visit the Washington Office Web site at:
>http://congress.nw.dc.us/ala/
>
>With your help this past week, we have made headway, especially
>on the "database protection" front. Senators Burns (R-MT),
>Conrad (D-ND), D'Amato (R-NY), Dorgan (D-ND), Lieberman (D-CT),
>Moynihan (D-NY), Rockefeller (D-WV), Shelby (R-AL), Snowe (R-ME),
>and Wyden (D-OR) all have written to Sens. Hatch and Leahy
>expressing concern that database legislation should not be
>incorporated into the "Digital Millennium Copyright Act."
>
>If you live in Alabama, Connecticut, Maine, Montana, New York,
>North Dakota, Oregon or West Virginia, please be sure to fax and
>phone your thanks to these Senators right away. They are under
>heavy pressure from database protection proponents to withdraw
>their objections to this seriously flawed legislation. Your
>immediate support and thanks will help them hold the line!
>
> "DIGITAL MILLENNIUM COPYRIGHT ACT" CONFERENCE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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>SENATE
>
>ST PTY SENATOR PHONE FAX
>SC R Strom Thurmond 224-5972 224-1300
>UT R Orrin G. Hatch, chairman 224-5251 224-6331
>VT D Patrick J. Leahy 224-4242
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>VA-6 R Bob Goodlatte 225-5431 225-9681
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Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 14:49:48 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: IMLS Announces First National Leadership Grants
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
September 28, 1998
IMLS ANNOUNCES FIRST NATIONAL LEADERSHIP GRANTS
<http://www.imls.fed.us/nlg98list.htm>
An important new funding source for museums and libraries announced its
first grants today. Forty-One National Leadership Grants awarded by the
Institute of Museum and Library Services totaled $6,487,750. I've
highlighted eight of the 41 grants that might particularly interest the
NINCH community, followed by the official announcement and the complete
list (also available at the above cited URL)
David Green
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Duke University Library
Durham, North Carolina
$91,188
For a one-year project to demonstrate the use of Encoded
Archival Description for finding aids in conjunction with
large-scale digital imaging projects, using as a case
study the
collection of photographs, journals and notebooks of
documentary photographer William Gedney.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, Oregon
$100,000
For a two-year project to convert a program about Portland
neighborhoods from a stand-alone interactive video exhibit to
an interactive Web-based database, and to promote its use by
K-12 educators and students for researching local history.
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York
$200,000
For a two-year project to plan and implement an archiving
solution for more than 2.5 million digital images created by
Cornell in its pioneering imaging projects carried out
over the
last decade.
Missouri Botanical Garden Library
St. Louis, Missouri
$225,281
For a two-year project to develop a database of plant images
and associated data from the Missouri Botanical Garden's
library and make it available on the institution's Web site;
create a repository for plant images to which other botanical
organizations can contribute; and develop a model program
with software for connecting images of any type with
associated data.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, Massachusetts
$82,300
For a two-year project to produce and disseminate an
easy-to-use handbook on managing digital projects to meet the
needs of libraries and museums.
Council on Library and Information Resources Washington,
D.C.
$72,990
For a one-year project, in partnership with the Chicago
Historical Society, to host a conference on content
development in the digital environment for museums,
libraries, and archives.
IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis)
University Libraries
Indianapolis, Indiana
$290,000
For a two-year project, in partnership with the Art Museum
Image Consortium (AMICO), to provide access on a trial basis
to AMICO's digital image database for the K-12 educational
and public library communities in the greater Indianapolis
area.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign,
Illinois
$157,981
For a two-year project in partnership with three museums,
two libraries, and three elementary schools to build a model
and a test electronic database of historical information
to be
made available via the Internet and World Wide Web.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 1998
Press Contacts:
Giuliana Bullard (202) 606-8339
Mamie Bittner (202) 606-8339
New National Leadership Grants:
Advancing the Field of Library Science
Washington, DC - The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services
announced today 41 grants totaling $6,487,750 for its first ever
National Leadership Grant awards. These pioneering awards will support
nationally replicable library projects that address education, research,
preservation and library-museum partnerships.
Diane Frankel, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, noted, "Libraries and museums are more important than ever in
this age of information, helping Americans navigate the many information
resources and find meaning in an increasingly complex world. We are
proud of these forward-thinking National Leadership projects that will
increase access to information and help libraries and museums better
serve the public."
The competition, which was open to all types of libraries,
garnered more than 250 applications. The four categories of competition
were:
1) EDUCATION & TRAINING in library and information science
2) RESEARCH & DEMONSTRATION projects to increase access to resources
3) PRESERVATION OR DIGITIZATION of library materials and
4) MODEL PROGRAMS OF COOPERATION between libraries and museums to improve
community service.
The funding will support initiatives that can serve as national models,
including:
* the development of courses for librarians on new technologies;
* the production of a handbook for library and museum professionals on
managing digital projects;
* projects to help public libraries evaluate and improve Internet services;
* a project in cooperation with four Chinese research libraries to deliver
Chinese-language academic journals via the Internet;
* projects to digitize library and archival resources and make them
available via the Internet and World Wide Web;
* cooperative projects among libraries and museums to share resources and
provide public programs drawing on the strengths of each type of
institution;
* an artist residency program for public library branches, developed
collaboratively by a museum of art and a public library
Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, IMLS is an
independent Federal grantmaking agency that fosters leadership,
innovation and a lifetime of learning by supporting museums and libraries.
For
more information, including grant guidelines, contact: Institute of
Museum and Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington,
DC 20506, (202) 606-8536, or http://www.imls.fed.us/.
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1998 National Leadership Grant Awards
EDUCATION & TRAINING. Model programs to provide education and
training for the use of emerging technologies in the field of library
and information science and to attract individuals from diverse cultural
backgrounds to the field.
Florida State University, Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis
Center, Tallahassee, Florida. $240,782 for a two-year project to develop a
marketing research continuing education course for librarians
to prepare them to use new technologies to effectively market library
services.
Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science,
River Forest, Illinois.
$165,622 for a two-year project, in collaboration with the Chicago
Public Schools' Department of Libraries and Information Services, to
prepare a selected group of classroom teachers for endorsement as
elementary school library media specialists.
Louisiana State University School of Library and Information Science,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
$43,502 for a one-year project to develop an archival training course to
be offered through interactive compressed video to librarians in
Arkansas and Louisiana.
University of Maryland College of Library and Information Services,
College Park, Maryland.
$94,400 for a two-year project to recruit individuals from diverse
cultural backgrounds to the master's degree program in library science,
focusing on part-time students and on the provision of mentoring as well
as financial assistance to students.
University of Oklahoma School of Library and Information Studies,
Norman, Oklahoma.
$151,416 for a two-year project to support master's degree students in
the Library and Information Science Education Project to Enhance
Cultural Diversity, focusing on recruitment of minority students,
training in information technologies, and mentoring by peers and
faculty.
The University of North Texas School of Library and Information Science,
Denton, Texas.
$226,791 for a two-year project, in partnership with the African
American Museum in Dallas, to train library professionals in digital
imaging technologies and information networks leading to Certificates of
Advanced Study in digital image management.
RESEARCH & DEMONSTRATION
Model projects to enhance library services through the use of appropriate
technologies and to create methods to evaluate the contributions to a
community made by institutions providing access to information services.
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
$17,335 for a one-year project, in partnership with the Society of
American Archivists and others, to convene a meeting to finalize a
formal set of Application Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description, a
tool to expand access to archival materials by making finding aids
effectively accessible via the Internet and the World Wide Web.
University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
$189,026 for a two-year project to investigate the role of librarians in
assisting users to find community information on the Internet, using
case studies of libraries in Florida, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, and to
identify best practices for providing community information
electronically.
St. Louis Public Library, St. Louis, Missouri. $208,550 for a two-year
project, in partnership with public libraries in Baltimore, Birmingham,
Phoenix, and Seattle, to refine a case-study methodology to communicate
the economic benefits of services provided by large public libraries and
to provide a means for libraries to estimate the direct monetary return
on annual taxpayer investment.
New York Public Library, New York, New York. $225,000 for a one-year
project to improve electronic access to the library's rare book, arts,
and Judaica collections.
University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, New York.
$176,138 for a one-year project to develop and test a descriptive list
of national core data elements, statistics, and performance measures to
describe public library network uses and produce a manual describing the
resulting elements, statistics and measures and recommending data
collection techniques.
Duke University Library, Durham, North Carolina. $91,188 for a one-year
project to demonstrate the use of Encoded Archival Description for
finding aids in conjunction with large-scale digital imaging projects,
using as a case study the collection of photographs, journals and
notebooks of documentary photographer William Gedney.
Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon. $100,000 for a two-year
project to convert a program about Portland neighborhoods from a
stand-alone interactive video exhibit to an interactive Web-based
database, and to promote its use by K-12 educators and students for
researching local history.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. $189,215 for a
two-year project, in cooperation with four Chinese research libraries,
to deliver digital copies of articles from Chinese-language academic
journals via the Internet to researchers throughout the United States,
with the goal of making the service viable as a cost-recovery operation.
Washington State Library, Olympia, Washington. $114,040 for a one-year
project to demonstrate the effectiveness of a Government Information
Locator Service tool developed by the Washington State Library to
connect people with government, in partnership with the states of
Mississippi, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. $172,611 for a one-year
project to digitize field research materials from the university's
African studies program and to make the information accessible for
teaching and research purposes via a Web-based public domain database.
PRESERVATION OR DIGITIZATION
Projects to preserve unique library resources of national significance,
emphasizing access by researchers beyond the institution undertaking the
project, and projects that address the preservation and archiving of
digital media.
University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, Hawaii. $100,438 for
a two-year project to develop a digital library of Hawaiian and Pacific
Islands materials, using Hawaiian-language newspapers and historical
photographs, for use as a teaching tool for Hawaiian-language immersion
schools and other purposes.
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. $108,682 for a two-year
project to digitize a large collection of League of Nations publications
published between 1919 and 1939 and make the materials available via the
Internet and the World Wide Web.
Alliance Library System, Pekin, Illinois. $101,400 for a one-year
project to create a regional digital library of archival resources
relating to the history of Illinois from 1818 to 1918, in collaboration
with the Illinois State Historical Library and other libraries within
the state.
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. $166,000 for a two-year
project to digitize materials in various formats from the Hoagy
Carmichael jazz collection (including sound recordings, photographs, and
printed and textual materials) and make them available via the Internet
and World Wide Web.
Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, Massachusetts. $82,300
for a two-year project to produce and disseminate an easy-to-use
handbook on managing digital projects to meet the needs of libraries and
museums.
Nah Tah Wahsh Library, Hannahville Indian Community, Wilson, Michigan.
$38,549 for a two-year project to provide information about the
Hannahville Indian Community, the Potawatomi tribe, and the Woodland
Indians of Upper Michigan-including digital copies of documents,
photographs, and video and audio clips of interviews with tribal
elders-via the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Missouri Botanical Garden Library, St. Louis, Missouri. $225,281 for a
two-year project to develop a database of plant images and associated
data from the Missouri Botanical Garden's library and make it available
on the institution's Web site; create a repository for plant images to
which other botanical organizations can contribute; and develop a model
program with software for connecting images of any type with associated
data.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. $200,000 for a two-year project
to plan and implement an archiving solution for more than 2.5 million
digital images created by Cornell in its pioneering imaging projects
carried out over the last decade.
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. $30,725 in
supplemental funding for a two-year project to investigate the effects
of fluctuating environments on library and archival materials.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina. $138,938 for a two-year project to create a full-text
database, "The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865," consisting of an
extensive collection of digitized and encoded printed works and
manuscripts, maps, illustrations and other materials documenting
southern life during the Civil War, and make them available via the
Internet and the World Wide Web.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
$175,000 for a two-year project to conserve rare materials in the
College's historical library.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. $241,306 for a
two-year project to digitize, identify, arrange, describe, and conserve
a collection of photographs of African-American educational scenes taken
by photographer Jackson Davis in the southern United States between 1915
and 1930.
West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, West Virginia. $101,578 for a
one-year project to digitize and create catalog records for a manuscript
collection containing the largest known assemblage of records relating
to the abolitionist John Brown and make the materials available via the
Internet and the World Wide Web.
MODEL PROGRAMS OF COOPERATION.
Projects that develop, document and disseminate both the processes and
products of model programs of cooperation between libraries and museums,
with emphasis on how the community is served, technology is used, or
education is enhanced.
Arizona Department of Library, Archives and Public Records, Phoenix,
Arizona. $150,545 for a one-year pilot project, in partnership with the
Heard Museum and the state libraries of Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada,
and Utah, to increase library, archive and museum expertise in tribal
communities and to improve access and services among tribal and other
participating institutions.
Florida Center for Library Automation, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida. $235,803 for a two-year project to create a
virtual library of Florida ecological information, in partnership with
the Florida Museum of Natural History and the libraries of the
University of Florida, Florida International University, and Florida
Atlantic University.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.
$157,981 for a two-year project in partnership with three museums, two
libraries, and three elementary schools to build a model and a test
electronic database of historical information to be made available via
the Internet and World Wide Web.
IUPUI (Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis) University
Libraries. Indianapolis, Indiana. $290,000 for a two-year project, in
partnership with the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), to provide
access on a trial basis to AMICO's digital image database for the K-12
educational and public library communities in the greater Indianapolis
area.
Montana State University Libraries, Bozeman, Montana. $138,346 for a
one-year project to create a database, Images of the Indian Peoples of
the Northern Great Plains, which will make access to important source
material on the Plains Indian cultures accessible via the Internet and
World Wide Web.
Kit Carson Historic Museums, Taos, New Mexico. $103,833 for a two-year
project in partnership with the Zimmerman Library and Harwood Museum of
the University of New Mexico and the Millicent Rogers Museum of Northern
New Mexico, to establish the Southwestern Research Center of Northern
New Mexico to make information about valuable collections available to
national and international researchers.
Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, New York. $297,900 for a
two-year project, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the
Brooklyn Public Library, to expand a cooperative project to increase
educational services to the Brooklyn community and to develop a national
model for attracting and training people from diverse backgrounds in
information technology, library science, and museum programs.
Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County, Charlotte,
North Carolina. $309,484 for a two-year project in partnership with the
Mint Museum of Art to create a program entitled "Weaving a Tale of
Craft," uniting computer technology, the arts, humanities, and
educational resources so the public may learn about North Carolina
history and crafts.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode
Island. $325,513 for a two-year partnership with the Providence Public
Library for an initiative designed to expand audiences for contemporary
art and interest in current issues through artists' residencies in
library branches, an exhibition at RISD, and a traveling Art & Text
Mobile.
The Children's Museum of Houston, Houston, Texas. $194,000 for
a two-year project, in partnership with the Houston Public Library
System, to open a Library for Early Childhood at the Children's Museum
as a resource for information on early childhood, parenting and family
learning, and as a partner learning space of the "Tot Spot" exhibit
gallery dedicated to children 6 months to three years.
Council on Library and Information Resources, Washington, D.C. $72,990
for a one-year project, in partnership with the Chicago Historical
Society, to host a conference on content development in the digital
environment for museums, libraries, and archives.
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. $95,542 for
a two-year project in partnership with the Marathon County Public
Library to link original art and literacy by focusing on extraordinary
exhibitions of children's book illustrations. The exhibition, Down
Under and Over Here: Children's Book Illustration from Australia and
America, will showcase a model program of cooperation.
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