Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Award

    Guidelines For 1997-98 Library of Congress/Ameritech
    National Digital Library Competition now Available

    The Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library
    Competition Guidelines for 1997-98 are now available.  The
    Guidelines may be used by any nonfederal, tax-exempt, nonprofit
    (501(c)3) cultural repository in the United States holding
    primary sources suitable for digitizing and making available on
    the Internet.  To order, view or download the Guidelines, visit
    the competition's Web site at
    <URL:http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award/>.

    With a $2 million gift from Ameritech, the Library of Congress
    is sponsoring 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 will
    complement and enhance the collections made available on the
    Internet by the National Digital Library Program at the Library
    of Congress.

    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's contribution to this World Wide Web-based
    virtual library is called American Memory.

    This is the second year of the competition; 10 institutions
    received awards last April in the first round of the program.

    For this competition cycle, applications will be limited to
    collections of textual and graphic materials that illuminate
    United States history and culture for the period from 1763-1920.

    Program staff will be available for individual consultations
    Aug. 29, during the Society of American Archivists Annual
    Meeting in Chicago (check program guide for location).  A
    workshop will be held Sept. 8 in Washington, D.C., at the
    Library of Congress.  Call 202-707-1087 to schedule an
    individual consultation or use the on-line registration form at
    the competition Web site
    (<URL:Http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/award>) to sign up for the
    Sept. 8 workshop.

        Guy Lamolinara
        Public Affairs Office
        Library of Congress
        glam<-a t->loc< . >gov
        202-707-9217
        Fax: 202-707-9199

Barbara Paulson

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