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      Date:  09/25/1996  07:03 pm  (Wednesday)  
      From:  Roy Tennant <[log in to unmask]
        To:  Multiple recipients of list DIGLIB <DIGLIB@INFOSER
   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
the Institute faculty and guest lecturers. Presentations are available in
both native Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat versions.
Specifically, there are materials available relating to digital library
issues and concepts, HTML markup, imaging, optical character recognition,
Adobe Photoshop use, image and multimedia databases, and access and
indexing issues. You will also find links to a few examples of the kind
of work accomplished by the Institute participants.

All participants received a large binder with numerous handouts in
labeled sections. The online version of the Institute binder lists all
the materials and links to those available online. Materials created
specifically for the Institute are all available, including in-class
exercises.

To provide a forum for continued learning and exploration of digital
library issues and problems, a new electronic discussion was created that
will soon be announced in a separate message. Until then those who are
eager will find a link to the discussion Web page at the IDLD site.

Roy Tennant
Institute Co-Manager




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