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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Forwarded from the LITA-L list. Judy -------------Forwarded Message----------------- From: INTERNET:[log in to unmask], INTERNET:[log in to unmask] To: Library and Information Technology Association List, INTERNET:[log in to unmask] Date: 8/4/97 3:22 PM RE: LC Digital Library grant (fwd) This announcement may be of interest to LITA members. See the website listed below for additional details about this grant: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Following is an exerpt from today's Edtech-Alert News and Interviews Update. =========== The Library of Congress, with a gift from Ameritech, is sponsoring a competition to enable United States public, research, and academic libraries, museums, historical societies and archival institutions to create digital collections of primary resources for distribution on the Internet. Notice of this year's competition was published in the Federal Register on July 29, 1997. Awards will be made of up to $75,000 to individual institutions and up to $150,000 to eligible consortia for projects that can be accomplished in twelve to eighteen months. The National Digital Library is envisioned as a distributed collection of converted library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions will contribute. The Library of Congress' contribution to this World Wide Web-based virtual library is called American Memory (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem) and is created by the Library's National Digital Library Program. In the 1997-98 competition, applications will be limited to collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate the period 1763-1920 and that complement and enhance the American Memory collections already mounted in the National Digital Library. Non-profit cultural repositories in the United States with collections of primary resources that are significant for education and research in United States history and culture are eligible to apply to the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library competition. Collections that are digitized with awards from this competition must be distributable on the Internet. Detailed guidelines and application instructions are available from the Library of Congress on-line at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award. Deadline: Applications must be postmarked by November 3, 1997. For further information contact: Bonnie Magness-Gardiner. Tel: (202) 707-1087. Fax: (202) 252-3249. E-mail: [log in to unmask] ===========