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The IMLS NLG program: fostering collaboration
Timothy W. Cole, Sarah L. ShreevesIts National Leadership Grant (NLG) program is one of the many ways in which the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) supports the development of innovative new…
Connecting people and resources: digital programs at the institute of museum and library services
Joyce RayAs a federally‐funded independent granting agency, The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) became involved in digitization in the late 1990s when Congress gave it…
The Colorado digitization program: a collaboration success story
Brenda Bailey‐Hainer, Richard UrbanThe Colorado Digitization Program has received several IMLS Leadership Grants. The Heritage Colorado and Western Trails grant projects both involved extensive collaboration…
Metadata rematrixed: merging museum and library boundaries
Priscilla Caplan, Stephanie HaasLinking Florida's Natural History uses species information as the nexus for pulling together scientific data from museum specimen databases and library catalogs of scientific…
Online multimedia museum exhibits: a case study in technology and collaboration
Matthew F. NickersonEight partners including three university libraries and five regional museums worked together to create the Voices of the Colorado Plateau online exhibit. This site features…
An online guide to Walt Whitman's dispersed manuscripts
Katherine L. Walter, Kenneth M. PriceIn November 2002, with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the University of Nebraska‐Lincoln and the University of Virginia embarked on a project to create…
The Maine music box: a pilot project to create a digital music library
Marilyn LutzThe Maine Music Box is an interactive, multimedia digital music library that enables users to view images of sheet music, scores and cover art, play back audio and video…
Enabling technologies and service designs for collaborative Internet collection building
Steve Mitchell, Julie Mason, Lori PenderThe following describes a number of technologies and exemplary service designs that foster better Internet finding tools in libraries and more cooperative and efficient effort in…
Search and discovery across collections: the IMLS digital collections and content project
Timothy W. Cole, Sarah L. ShreevesIn the fall of 2002, the University of Illinois Library at Urbana‐Champaign received a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to implement a collection…
The way ahead: learning cafés in the academic marketplace
Morell D. BooneLibraries, like the universities they serve, are faced with the daunting task of reconciling the traditional role as repository and provider of information with the increasing…
Copyright in the networked world: interlibrary services
Michael SeadleInterlibrary lending and document delivery have become an integral part of the services that contemporary libraries offer. The copyright laws in most countries authorized this…
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- Dr Dickson K.W. Chiu
- Dr Kevin K.W. Ho