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I was fortunate to be one of the participants to the Institute and highly
recommend this web site. It is a wonderful resource for anyone planning or
working on Digital Library projects.
Kathy Heuer
Reference Librarian
Minneapolis College of Art & Design
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From: [log in to unmask] on Wed, Sep 25, 1996 2:40 PM
Subject: Inst. on Digital Library Development ONLINE
INSTITUTE ON DIGITAL LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT ONLINE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/IDLD/
The Institute on Digital Library Development (IDLD) was a five-day
workshop to retool librarians, archivists, and museum professionals with
the skills they need to use existing tools and proven techniques to place
library content on the Internet. Thirty-six professionals were trained
during two separate sessions (July 15-19 and July 29-August 2, 1996) of
eighteen participants each. The Institute was supported by a grant from
the U.S. Department of Education, Higher Education Act Title II-B grant
and the UC Berkeley Library. The Institute was free to participants, who
were selected by application, and the grant provided $10,000 for
participant scholarships to defray travel costs. Each participant had a
dedicated 90Mhz Pentium computer with 16MB of RAM with which to complete
their exercises and lab work.
Since one of the goals of the Institute was to make the materials used in
the Institute available to those who could not attend, the Institute Web
site offers many of the handouts, lecture notes and presentations used by
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