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Today is the last day for comment on these fascinating projects. But the email was received too late to be useful, and I do not recall a previous invitation to comment. I have not found one in the list archive, which may be my ignorance. Can anyone shed any light? Isobel Watson a mere user >From: David Dawson <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: David Dawson <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Last day to comment on choosing JISC digitisation projects >Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:24:37 +0100 > >All > >apologies for the cross-posting … > >JISC is consulting until 1st September on a shortlist of 24 projects that >could receive a share of £4m in funding to digitise resources of national >importance, Projects to support teaching, learning and research include a >fossil record database that will ‘document the history of life’; the >country’s largest collection of Pre-Raphaelite drawings; the full text of >all twentieth century Cabinet papers; the Desmond Tutu archive; the >historic boundaries of Britain; Islamic manuscripts; all photographic >negatives held by the Scott Polar Research Institute; rare pamphlets and >newspapers from the Anglo-Jewish community, and primary material, including >sound, images and video, of the major First World War poets… > >To view the shortlisted projects, please go to: >http://jiscdigitisation.typepad.com/, to make your views know, please go >to: http://survey.bris.ac.uk/jisc/digiconsultphase2 > >On these sites you can read short summaries of the proposals, and then >complete a survey to indicate those that would be useful in your teaching, >learning and research. > >There is a prize draw for those who complete the survey, with book tokens >to be won!!!! > >D > >David Dawson > >Museums, Libraries and Archives Council >Victoria House, Southampton Row, London WC1B 4EA > > >______________________________________________________________________ > >Unless stated otherwise the information contained in this e-mail and any >attachments is confidential. If you have received it in error, you are on >notice of its status. It is intended solely for the addressee. Any >unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended >recipient please notify the sender immediately and delete the email and any >attachments from the system. > >This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. >For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email >______________________________________________________________________