The NSF has announced a new programme:
National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education
Digital Library (NSDL)
This is described as follows
(text from http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/ehr/due/programs/nsdl/)
Building on work supported under the multi-agency Digital Libraries
Initiative, this program aims to found a national digital library that
will constitute an online network of learning environments and resources
for science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (SMET) education at
all levels. The program will accept proposals in four tracks: (1) Core
Integration System projects are expected to focus on the coordination and
management of the library's core collections and services and to develop
the library's central portal. (2) Collections projects are expected to
aggregate and manage a subset of the library's content within a coherent
theme or specialty. (3) Services projects are expected to develop
services
which support users, collection providers, and the Core Integration
System
and which enhance the impact, efficiency, and value of the library. (4)
Targeted Research projects are expected to explore specific topics that
have immediate applicability to one of the other three tracks.
The solicitation document makes very interesting reading in the light of
the current DNER learning and teaching call (JISC 5/99), but also wider
discussions about points of contact between library/information activity
and learning activity.
Note use of the word portal ;-)
Lorcan
Lorcan Dempsey <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/>
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