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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Building Public Access Using Technology Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture will create a major new addition to the Burke Museum Web site: a unified Internet portal to the natural and cultural heritage of Washington State. The site will have three main components: Plants and Animals of Washington; Native American Heritage of Washington, and; Geology of Washington. The project will bring together smaller community museums, tribal, and other organizations resources to provide needed public access to centralized information on the natural history and cultures of Washington State. The site will be carefully crafted to meet diverse audiences.

Drayton Hall (NTHP), Charleston, SC
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services Drayton Hall, a National Trust historic site, will use the funding to make accessible to multiple audiences a nationally significant, and as yet largely untapped, collection of documents, drawings, and photographs that tell a story of our nation's history and culture. The Drayton Hall is one of the oldest unrestored plantations in the nation and is home to the Drayton Papers Collection. This collection contains plantation records, correspondence, essays, notes on various subjects, slave lists, architectural drawings, plats, wills, deeds, sketches, and photographs dating approximately from 1700 to 1900. This project will add some 1,000 historical photographs relating to Drayton Hall since the mid-19th century to the Museum's digital database, provide searchable keywording for both the Drayton papers and the historic photos, provide archival storage for the historic photo collection, and expand the distribution and use of the collection through the Internet.

Drexel University, College of Medicine, Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine and Homeopathy of Drexel University College of Medicine will digitize a collection of materials about the history of women physicians from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania.

Emory University Libraries, Atlanta, GA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The Emory University Libraries' MetaScholar Initiative will work with the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the Atlanta History Center, and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame to increase public access to primary source material relating to the music and musicians of the Civil Rights Movement, using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting to integrate several disparate collections.

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium, Saint Johnsbury, VT
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Building Public Access The Fairbanks Museum will improve public access to interpretive weather science in Vermont and beyond by integrating the development of a new interactive weather exhibit, formal and informal science learning opportunities, and a content-rich web presence with the Museum's interpretive science program, Eye on the Sky. The project will include: the creation of free-standing interactive weather exhibits inviting visitors to explore the nature of wind, temperature, pressure, and water; the installation of automated weather instruments and visitor-operated information technology in the Gallery; the distribution of educational resources associated with the Gallery's exhibits; and the development of rich web content that mirrors and complements the learning experiences available in the Gallery.

Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, FL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Professional Practices Awards
Fairchild Tropical Garden proposes to document the Garden's living palm species using herbarium specimens, digital photographs, and DNA studies, which will improve management of the palm collections. Current studies have revealed new information about how palms reproduce. This information suggests that the current practices for palm propagation may not be appropriate. Staff will use the DNA studies to evaluate the extent of hybridization within three palm genera, and will then produce guidelines for the propagation of the Garden's palms. Fairchild Tropical Garden is known for having the one of the top palm collections in the field. The Garden will make the herbarium specimen data and photographs available to the public using an online database. This work will immediately affect the Fairchild's propagation and seed distribution efforts, and will benefit other botanical gardens by providing a better understanding of plant reproductive biology in the garden setting.

Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
This proposal requests support to create vPlantsPlus, an expansion of the current vPlants, that was developed from an earlier IMLS grant. vPlants is a collaborative, on-line herbarium for the greater Chicago region that translates information contained on nearly 90,000 herbarium specimens into digital information that is easily and globally accessed, browsed, and searched. vPlantsPlus expands upon this in three areas: enhance the content and accessibility of the program to accommodate a growing audience through the addition of more broadly usable Web pages; expand the breadth of vPlants to include fungi; and add new partners by collaborating with institutions that house large collections of Chicago area plants as well as educational initiatives that offer additional technical expertise. vPlantsPlus will build upon vPlants strong foundation to improve functionality, teach, and taxonomic breadth.

Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Building Public Access This public access oriented project will enhance access to the Florence Griswold Museum's collections and educational resources. The Museum will embark on a major research and digitization project that will enhance public access to collection materials related to five interpretation themes that express the Museum's core story. Each of the exhibits for these themes will be available on the Museum's Web site, along with related art and history Web site links and bibliographies for further reading. In addition, the Museum will work with curriculum experts and teachers to develop online lesson plans that meet the state's education requirements.

Florida, Division of Library and Information Science, Bureau of Archives and Records Management, Tallahassee, FL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This project will digitize 10,000 images and create an index to 50,000 images from the Florida Folklife Collection documenting performances by, interviews with, and fieldwork surveys of folk musicians, craftspersons, storytellers, folklife interpreters and cultural tradition-bearers in such areas as children's lore, foodways, religious traditions, Native American culture, maritime traditions, ethnic folk culture, material culture, and occupational lore. The project will also create educational units for teachers relating to the collection.

Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation and Trust, Oak Park, IL
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Resources The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust will expand the educational services through a program called Virtual Architect. It is a web-based interactive learning project that will give target users (youth, ages 11-14) the opportunity to act as architects, using their imaginations to create their own design solutions to problems posed by specific clients, sites, and communities. In addition, examples of Frank Lloyd Wright's residential designs as well as other innovative residential architecture will be available on the Web site as fuel for the imaginations of the users in developing their own unique designs. An essential part of the Virtual Architect project will be establishing quantifiable, measurable outcomes and working with both IMLS and an external evaluation firm to insure that the learning objectives identified in the project are being met.

Greater Western Library Alliance, Kansas City, MO
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In partnership with the University of Utah, the Greater Western Library Alliance will build a digital library of water resources information for the western United States from a geographically dispersed consortium of 30 major universities. This project will harvest metadata from multiple digital collections servers at the leading participant institutions using the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting Protocol, and will create a single point of search.

HistoryMakers Resources Center, Chicago, IL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In collaboration with Carnegie Mellon's Infomedia Digital Video Library, HistoryMakers Resource Center, a non-profit archives of video oral histories of African American leaders, will develop a full-content and knowledge-based archival search and retrieval system that will allow the display of digital video, audio, and text libraries to occur over local and wide-area networks.

Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In partnership with the Illinois State Geological Survey, the Illinois State Library proposes to digitize and provide Internet access for an estimated 11,500 individual Illinois black-and-white, historical aerial photographic prints originally filmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture during the period 1936-1941 that are located in Illinois repositories. The project will provide leadership to other states that must address the digitization, preservation of, and access to aerial photographic images of interest to historians, developers, surveyors, engineers, and urban planners.

International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2003 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
This project will introduce the first distributed query database system among institutions specifically devoted to the medium of photography by creating a distributed database capability hosted on the jointly managed Web "portal," www.photomuse.org. ICP's partner for this endeavor is the George Eastman House (GEH) in Rochester, NY. Together, ICP and GEH will then test this distributed query platform and develop methodologies to bring information into the understanding of the photographic image. This accessible, information-rich, multi-institutional framework will be able to address the specific needs of the field and the general public worldwide. Anticipated results include: Coordinating best cataloging practices among photographic institutions to establish the common ground, establishing Web access to each museum's collection database, designing and developing tangential database tables, and collaborating with institutions that hold photography collections within the photomuse.org site.

International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Building Public Access Web-based technology will enable International Center of Photography (ICP) to bring its rich permanent collections of historical and modern photographs, the Library's bibliographic references, and an interactive educational curriculum to a global audience. The Online Resource Information System is an ambitious multi-year effort to bring ICP photographic resources to a broad, diverse public. ICP will (1) digitize 60 percent of its permanent collections, (2) create full catalogue records for 10,000 photographs, (3) lay the groundwork to integrate a search system for ICP photographic and library collections, (4) input most of its Library shelf lists into a searchable database, and (5) add educational content to the Web site for teachers, students, families, and the public. ICP will be positioned to share its resources with other institutions, thereby providing a new service to photographic research.

Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The Massillon Museum in Ohio is working to expand educational services by connecting people with its permanent collection. By doing so, the Museum expects to develop an audience at an early age, offer information easily to the public, and expose the community to new learning opportunities and ideas. This museum will use technology to build public access and reach families and children. One element of its grant is helping the Museum implement a program for third-grade students in Massillon City schools. Another aspect is assisting the Museum to hire two interns to input collection information into the collections management system and to digitally photograph the collection. The use of technology will facilitate online exhibits, computer access to the museum's collection, and digitization of its collection. The grant will enable the museum to achieve its overarching goal of being an integral part of the community.

McKissick Museums, Columbia, SC
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Building Public Access The McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina will develop a delivery system that will make the Museum's diverse collections on southern and South Carolina folk life and material culture available to a broader audience. Internet based, this project will integrate the Museum's extensive holdings of artifacts, oral histories, early and contemporary musical recordings, film, and documents into an organized system. In addition, it will provide support for a Web site that allows for in-depth examination of selected topics. This project will make one of the strongest collections of materials and objects on southern traditional arts and culture available to a national and international audience via the Web. The Museum will produce one of the first interactive Web sites that will provide a new audience with access to regional culture.

Memorial Hall Museum, Deerfield, MA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The museum will develop a Web site focusing on the Deerfield, MA Attack of 1704, a major battle in Queen Anne's War, one of the series of wars known collectively as the French and Indian Wars. There will be no physical exhibit, but an extensive virtual one via the Web. The Web site will demonstrate a model approach for museums to depict and voice diverse perspectives of history in a way that is engaging and compelling to the general public. The funds will complete the four final phases of the project: the creation of a model that substantially builds upon a core version of the Web site by creating new 'scenes', developing historic character narratives and producing interactive maps; broad dissemination to the general public by collaborating with a regional public radio station and promotion through programs surrounding the tercentennial of 1704; extensive evaluation, conducting formative and summative evaluation; and targeted dissemination about the multi-layered Web site to the museum community. www.1704.deerfield.history.museum

National Steinbeck Center, Salinas, CA
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The National Steinbeck Center's project will allow the center to greatly increase access to the public by increasing programs, audiences, and reaching new constituencies. Digital archiving of the collection and digitizing of the exhibit and corresponding historical and relevant information is an integral part of the new facility and programming.

New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services Building on existing statewide education programs, the New York State Historical Association (NYSHA) plans a two-year project involving pilot testing and implementation of its first distance learning program. NYSHA will set up a distance learning lab and in collaboration with the Farmers' Museum and Project VIEW, will develop a series of interactive videoconference programs for the K-12 age group. The programs will focus on three themes: The Iroquois in New York State, 19th Century Life in Rural America, and Looking at the Past through Primary Sources.

New York University, Division of Libraries, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library, New York, NY
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This project will create a digital resource for the study of the American Revolution and the Early Republic drawn from the collections of New York University's Fales Library and the Library of the New York Historical Society using the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Scheme (METS). New York University will integrate the digital material into its educational resources.

Northern Illinois University Libraries, DeKalb, IL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In the Mark Twain's Mississippi Project, Northern Illinois University, partnering with Tulane University, St. Louis Mercantile Library, and the Newberry Library, will digitize and mount on a free-use Internet site text, image, sound, and related data about society and culture on the Mississippi River from 1830-1890. The project will present scholars' interpretive materials on Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain's) Mississippi River writings as a part of an integrated online learning environment and will explore the integration of text and image materials into new geo-spatial interfaces.

Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago, IL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Oriental Institute, with two university collaborators, will develop, test, and implement This History, Our History: Ancient Mesopotamia Online. This interactive project about ancient Mesopotamia, now present-day Iraq, will be developed for nationwide educational use. The project will feature three components. An interface with curriculum-based interactives, modeled after the Institute's current materials, will incorporate visual thinking strategies as the foundation of its learning theory. The grade 6-12 student-focused interactives will relay the concepts behind the science of archaeology, the discovery of Mesopotamian civilization, its artifacts, and the understanding of its history over time. Second, a searchable database of artifacts called a Learning Collection, will be created to support independent educational exploration of ancient Mesopotamian culture.

Rutgers University Libraries, New Brunswick, NJ
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The New Jersey Digital Highway (NJDH) is a statewide repository and collaborative portal created by the Rutgers University Libraries, American Labor Museum/Botto House, New Jersey State Library, New Jersey Historical Society, New Jersey State Archives, and smaller libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, public broadcasting, and schools. The project will create a statewide digital infrastructure and will develop a portal to the state's immigration history and ethnic heritage as the first stage of content development.

Tempe Historical Museum, Tempe, AZ
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services This grant will enable the Tempe Historical Museum to put a well-established, successful education program on-line for use in the classroom. The Museum's Depression and New Deal program has offered honors social studies classes in the local school district the opportunity to conduct research with primary historical materials and artifacts in the Tempe Historical Museum for eight years. While successfully reaching an average of 300 students a year, the on-line effort will provide broader access to a greater number of students. The Depression and New Deal program has the following goals: to provide a more complete study of the social history of this period within the context of required American history/social studies curricula; to introduce original artifacts and primary sources into the curriculum, teaching critical skill and engaging students in learner-centered learning; and to introduce students to museum resources in their community.

University of Alabama, University Libraries, Tuscaloosa, AL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In partnership with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Library System, the University of Alabama Libraries will digitize trade bookbindings and develop a thesaurus and glossary of trade binding terminology.

University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Building Public Access At the University of Alaska Museum, this grant will fund A Sense of Alaska. This project will include the formation of a Community Advisory Team to address, discuss, and evaluate audience needs and the responsibilities museum interpretation has to undeserved clients, thereby assisting the Museum staff in analyzing cultural products and history, identifying local resources, and collecting multimedia to supplement museum object interpretation. A Sense of Alaska will then expand the museum's Interpretive Learning Suite, a computer based program that presents layered interpretation of museum objects through multimedia. The program's goal is that the Suite be expanded from the current 33 to at least 200 museum artworks, and from the current 300 to at least 700 supplementary materials (text, historical photograph, film footage, audio interview and natural sound recordings).

University of California, Riverside, Library, Riverside, CA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This project, building on the INFOMINE Project previously funded by IMLS, is a free, librarian-vetted virtual library of Internet resources relevant to faculty, students, and research staff at the university level. The current project will make the INFOMINE portal customizable by libraries to enable further sharing of tools and resources. It will also develop a business plan to position the portal as a cooperative, self-sustaining venture. INFOMINE complements the Librarians Index for the Internet, a free, librarian-vetted portal of general-interest information which was also developed with IMLS funds and is maintained by the California State Library.

University of California, Santa Barbara, Library, Santa Barbara, CA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The University of California, Santa Barbara, Library will digitize and provide access to 6,000 wax cylinder recordings in its collection and will provide a model for digitizing historic recordings such as cylinders, 78 rpm recordings, and unique acetate recordings for delivery via the Internet.

University of Denver, Penrose Library, Denver, CO
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The University of Denver, in partnership with the Colorado Digitization Program, Colorado State Library, and Colorado Historical Society will create a 125,000-page newspaper collection from 200 Colorado newspapers that will be available via the Colorado Virtual Library, using Olive software to scan from microform and including online learning modules for K-12 education, and a metadata and indexing system that is based on 19th century natural language.

University of Florida Libraries, George A. Smathers Libraries, Gainesville, FL
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
Ephemeral Cities will allow citizens to explore the evolution of their city through an interactive, Web-based digital city atlas. The project will develop the atlases using GIS (Geographic Information System) and historic and modern map imaging technologies. City-based learning communities will not only use the atlases but will also contribute digital objects to enrich the exploration process for others. Through a partnership of the University of Florida, University of South Florida, Florida International University and the Alachua County Historic Trust/Matheson Museum, the project will develop the model and demonstrate its use in the cities of Gainesville, Tampa, and Key West.

University of Oregon Museum of Natural History, Eugene, OR
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The University of Oregon Library will collaborate with the University's Museum of Natural History to bring the unique work of a local photographer and audio archivist to a wider audience. Mr. Hunter, who began documenting the sights and sounds of Oregon's people and places in the 1930s, created multi-media presentations that combine historic images with unique recorded and collected sounds, including sounds from nature such as rare bird calls. The project will provide a model for the digitization of diverse audio and visual records in a variety of formats. http://natural-history.uoregon.edu/Pages/projects.html

University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library, Richmond, VA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
The University of Richmond will produce a digital testbed of historical newspapers relating to the Civil War in collaboration with the Perseus Project at Tufts University and the Virginia Center for Digital History. From this testbed, the project will analyze different methods of creating digital newspaper content with particular emphasis on costs and benefits, and will produce a set of recommended practices. It will provide a model of collaboration among institutions with different levels of experience in digitization.

University of Southern Mississippi Libraries, Hattiesburg, MS
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In partnership with Delta State University, Jackson State University, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Tougaloo College and the University of Mississippi, the University of Southern Mississippi Libraries will create a digital library of primary sources associated with the civil rights era from the partner repositories, and will create a model for statewide digital collaborations.

University of Utah, Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The University of Utah, in collaboration with Brigham Young University, will build on an initial collection of three digitized newspapers funded by the Utah State Library with State Library Services and Technology Act funds. This project will expand the collection, distribute the content across four different locations in Utah and aggregate the content into a single, integrated digital collection of historical newspapers.

University of Washington Libraries, Seattle, WA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The University of Washington Libraries, working with Olympic Peninsula Tribal Associations, the Claallam County Historical Society, and other partners, will design and carry out a digitization project that will document artifacts, stories, and events of tribal heritage in the Pacific Northwest through photographs, videotape, and oral histories. The community-based curatorial and exhibition project will create Web sites, kiosks for online and physical exhibitions, and workshops developed by West Olympic Council on the Arts; a toolkit for creating a community museum; and curriculum materials developed by the University's Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.

University of Wisconsin, Max Kade Institute, Madison, WI
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In partnership with the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures, The Dictionary of American Regional English, the University of Wisconsin Libraries, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Folklore Program, the Max Kade Institute for German American Studies (MKI) will digitize, interpret, and make accessible important audio collections capturing a variety of American languages and dialects. The project will provide interactive maps and interpretive essays, and will establish workable procedures for securing permissions, guided by tribal laws and restrictions, for culturally sensitive Native American language recordings.

Wayne State University Library System, Detroit, MI
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
Digital Dress, a partnership of the Detroit Historical Museums, Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, and the Meadow Brook Hall, with Wayne State University, will create a Web portal of 5,000 digital images of men's, women's, and children's clothing and accessories representing 200 years of fashion. The project, the first shared digital library of historic costumes, will also create a thesaurus of historic costume terms.

Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, Wethersfield, CT
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum will establish a working model of off-site museum-based learning for high school history students, but creating an interactive Web site called Silas Deane Online. The Web site will use digital technology to offer a thematic curricula "cluster" centered on the life and experiences of one of Connecticut's "lost heroes" of the American Revolution. The lesson plans will be supported by digital images of the 1766 Silas Deane House, objects from the Museum's collections, and primary documents, as well as a bibliography and links to other Internet sites. The use of interactive video will capture the essence of what it feels like to visit an historic site.

WGBH Educational Foundation, Media Library, Boston, MA
2003 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The Media Library of the WGBH Educational Foundation will partner with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI) and Washington University to produce a prototype of a digital library collection focused on the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. This project will develop broadband solutions to the challenge of matching rich media archives with educational needs. Building on WGBH's Teachers’ Domain online platform (www.teachersdomain.org), this initiative will feature multimedia assets of all three organizations, highlighted by extensive oral histories recorded by BCRI, the encyclopedic resources of the Henry Hampton Collection housed within the Media and Film Archive at Washington University, and broadcasts and video programming at WGBH. The archives include primary source interviews, dramatic recreations, and historical footage and supporting teacher guides and companion Web sites that significantly extend their educational impact.

William King Regional Arts Center, Abingdon, VA
2003 Learning Opportunities Grants
Purpose: Expanding Educational Services The funding will significantly revise and expand ARTWorld, a component of the William King Regional Arts Center's general Web site. This expansion will result in an online educational outreach program for second and third grade audiences. ARTWorld will incorporate not only curriculum-based enrichment tools for teachers, but will offer new interactive content for students and virtual gallery tours for all ages. Modules to be included on the new site will feature Egypt, China, Native American traditions, Greece, Rome, and West Africa/Mali.

Cornell University Library, John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia, Ithaca, NY
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, "Images of Southeast Asia," the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia at Cornell University Library will digitize text and illustrations taken from early Western travel narrations and first-person accounts of life in Southeast Asia before 1927. http://www.library.cornell.edu/Asia/sea.html

Council of American Overseas Research Centers, Washington, DC
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year "Middle East Research Journals Project," The Council of American Overseas Research Centers, in partnership with the American Center for Oriental Research, American Institute of Maghrib Studies, American Institute for Yemenni Studies, American Research Center in Egypt, Cyprus American Archeological Research Institute, and the W.F. Albright Institute of Archeological Research will microfilm and catalog more than 2,200 Middle East research journals and digitize, index in a web-accessible data base, and provide document delivery on articles from them. http://www.caorc.org/

Maine Historical Society, Portland, ME
2002 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Maine Historical Society will further develop their project, Maine Memory Network, a statewide digital museum that will enable historical societies, museums, libraries, and other cultural institutions across the state to upload and manage digital copies of artifacts, images, and documents from their collections into one centralized, web-accessible database. The project will provide local cultural organizations with software, training, and support to assist them in scanning, uploading, cataloguing, and managing items from their collection. Grant funds will go towards developing the interpretive features and exhibits, and K-12 resources. This network of cultural resources will provide educators, students, and the general public with unprecedented access to historical collections throughout Maine. http://www.mainememory.net/

Michigan State University, Library, East Lansing, MI
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, "The Making of Modern Michigan," Michigan State University Library, in partnership with the Library of Michigan, Michigan Library Consortium, University of Michigan, Wayne State University, University of Detroit Mercy, Western Michigan University, Traverse Area District Library, and the Hiawathaland Library Cooperative, will enhance a digital collection on Michigan history for use in the K-12 history curriculum. It will also create regional digitization centers and provide training to libraries in techniques, metadata standards, and copyright issues to digitize their own unique collections. http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/

New-York Historical Society Museum, New York, NY
2002 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Professional Practices Awards
The New York Historical Society, in collaboration with American Associate for State and Local History; American Public History Laboratory; Atlanta History Center; Free Library of Philadelphia; Los Angeles Public Library; and Schenectady Museum, will develop a prototype of "LIFETIMES: Everyday Life n America," a computer-interactive program inviting visitors to explore the experience of life in the United States since World War II. Visitors will be invited to record personal and family stories, and to view their own life histories in context. The participating sites will sponsor public programs on the Memory Bank themes, and will build collections of contemporary historical materials, develop thematic exhibitions, and train professional staff in historical methods and interpretive approaches. http://www.nyhistory.org

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2002 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will create a new generation of hybrid programs that bring together traditional museums education and digital multimedia programs to three sets of target audiences: adult museum visitors, students, and teachers grades 9-12. The project will involve publishing four new chapters of Making Sense of Modern Art and the accompanying school Theme Units and curriculum both in hard copy and electronically; restructuring these chapters to be used in the galleries, education center, and on the Web site; launching a statewide teacher training program to train 600 teachers in using the digital resources; creating a short digital film series based on the content of the book; creating an interactive collection guide for the permanent collection of the museum available on the Web, and redesigning the eSchool portion of the museum's Web site. http://www.sfmoma.org

Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year "GATT Digital Archive" project, Stanford University Libraries will digitize unique General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) documents from its inception in 1947 to 1986 and report on international intellectual property issues. The project will serve as a model for libraries wishing to digitize and provide access to large-scale and complex digital content. http://gatt-archive.stanford.edu/

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this twenty-one month project, "Contact! Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration," the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, in partnership with National History Day, will create a digital library containing full texts of approximately 150 exploration narratives and will distribute instructional guides to 40,000 teachers in the National History Day program. http://www.americanjourneys.org/

Tufts University, Digital Collections and Archives, Medford, MA
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
In this two-year demonstration project, "Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data," Tufts University will digitize eleven Boston city directories from 1865 to 1955 to incorporate contextual information about geographic locations featured in digital images of photographs using a geographic information system; the result will be a rich resource of visual information with associated spatial and other data. http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/4000.12/index.html

University of California, Merced, Merced, CA
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In this three-year project, the University of California at Merced Library, in collaboration with the Ruth and Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center in the San Joaquin Valley region, will pilot a model of collaboration for developing significant online research collections through the use of Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) encoding. as well as digitize holdings of the Institute, including 454 hanging scrolls and 46 folding screens. http://www.shermanleeinstitute.org/

University of Connecticut, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, Storrs, CT
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In this two-year project, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, in collaboration with the Connecticut Historical Society, Mystic Seaport, New Haven Colony Historical Society, and the Connecticut State Library, will enhance an existing graphic database, "Connecticut History Online," advancing the goal to ultimately provide access to the holdings of both large and small institutions across the state. http://www.cthistoryonline.org/

University of Illinois, Board of Trustees, Champaign, IL
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In this two-year project, the University of Illinois-Champaign, in collaboration with the Illinois Heritage Association and the Illinois State Library, will develop a multi-track digitization training program for museums and libraries of all sizes throughout Illinois and neighboring states. "Basics and Beyond" will include a range of training options from one day workshops to an on-line course and hands-on opportunities. http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/IDI/

University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, KY
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, "Beyond the Shelf," the University of Kentucky Libraries, in partnership with the Kentucky Virtual Library, will create a digital collection of 950 volumes from microfilm print masters, providing a model of a sustainable, high-production workflow for film-to-digital conversion. http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/BTS/

University of Maine, Fogler Library, Orono, ME
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, "The Maine Music Box," the University of Maine, in partnership with the Bagaduce Music Lending Library and the Bangor Public Library, will design and implement an interactive, multimedia digital music library linked to statewide public school music curriculum standards and consisting of images of scores with associated sound renditions, cover art, and lyrics. It will also enable users to view, play, and print scores, and manipulate music by changing the key and instrument. http://www.library.umaine.edu

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
In this two-year demonstration project, "A Virtual Archive of Whitman's Manuscripts," the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, in partnership with the University of Virginia, will create a finding aid to an estimated 70,000 Whitman manuscripts found in over sixty institutions. It will produce digital images of poetry drafts and a search interface, establish best practices for Encoded Archival Description (EAD) implementation across collections, and develop a model for scholar-archivist collaboration. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In this two-year project, the University of Pittsburgh, in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, will create a Web portal for increasing access to "Historic Pittsburgh," a multi-institutional collection of visual images and related descriptive information of the Pittsburgh region. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/images/pittsburgh/

University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Hoskins Library, Knoxville, TN
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, "Digital Access for WPA Photographs," the University of Tennessee, in partnership with the University of Kentucky's William S. Webb Museum of Anthropology and the University of Alabama's Alabama Museum of Natural History, will digitize and create an on-line database of information describing photographs taken by Works Progress Administration workers of archaeological projects conducted in preparation for Tennessee Valley Authority dam construction in the 1930s. http://www.lib.utk.edu/~outreach/grants.html

Wayne State University, Walter P. Reuther Library & University Libraries, Detroit, MI
2002 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this fourteen-month project, "The Urban Beat," the Walter P. Reuther Library and the University Libraries of Wayne State University will digitize images from the Detroit News photo collection dating from the late 19th Century through 1980. http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resources/special_collections/local/vmc/index.html

Brandeis University Libraries, Waltham, MA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
During this two-year project, the Brandeis University Libraries will digitize the original lithographs created by caricaturist Honore Daumier (1808-1879) and will make descriptions and translated captions of each lithograph searchable in their on-line catalog. http://www.library.brandeis.edu/specialcollections/daumier/

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The two-year Eagle Online – Phase 1 project will digitize from microfilm the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, from 1841 to 1902. Pioneering the use of a new OCR software program optimized for historic newspapers, the project will provide Web-based access and full text searching. http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle

Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn, NY
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
Worklore: Brooklyn Voices Speaks brings together the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society to explore the subject of working in Brooklyn as experienced by eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth-century residents. The two and one half year project includes free public programs and lectures; curriculum guides for fourth, seventh, eighth, and eleventh grades; marketing and outreach materials, and the creation of a Worklore Web site to provide online access to exhibition text, images, educational materials and lectures, as well as historic narratives and contemporary oral histories. http://www.worklore.net/index.html

Broward County Library System, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Bienes Special Collections and Rare Book Library of the Broward County Library will digitize its unique collection of Museum Extension Project objects and text produced during the New Deal by the Works Progress Administration from 1935-1943. http://digital.browardlibrary.org/wpa

Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project by the Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden, in collaboration with the Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago, will evaluate commercially available plants, including both old “standards” and the latest hybrids, and will inform the horticulture industry, academic and governmental researchers, gardeners and other plant enthusiasts about the best plants for Midwestern and equivalent climates. The Web site will feature annually updated profiles on approximately 1000 different plants undergoing trials in the Garden’s Plant Evaluation Program, presenting information on the plant’s performance in a non-technical and searchable format. http://www.chicagobotanic.org

Cornell University Library, Ithaca, NY
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections will preserve and digitize a collection of ephemera, published materials, and artifacts from U.S. national political campaigns (1800-1976) and make the information available and searchable on the Internet. http://cidc.library.cornell.edu/political/

Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, MD
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The goal of this two-year project is to produce twenty multimedia storytelling performances of multicultural stories that will be featured on the library's Web site and distributed to area schools, Maryland library systems, and other institutions. http://www.epfl.net

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Exploratorium will develop, test, and implement a database of concepts, including digitized and archived information related to interactive exhibits and scientific phenomena. These digitized images, prints, audio and videotapes, educational activities, and other exhibit related resources would be available through the museum Web site to museum professionals, educators, and the public to increase access to the innovative methodology of science education pioneered by the museum. http://www.exploratorium.edu

Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
Preserving Electronic Publications is a one-year project of the Illinois State Library, State Library of Ohio, Illinois State Archives, and the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science to develop a framework for monitoring and evaluating changes made to electronically published state government documents to ensure permanent public access.

Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
Indiana University, in collaboration with the Mathers Museum in Bloomington and the Indiana State Museum, will create a digital library of cultural treasures from Chichen Itza and Uxmal, Mexico and Angel Mounds in Southern Indiana. This one-year demonstration project will develop techniques for the integration of state-of-the-art library and museum compliant data of cultural treasures with new media applications to collect, index, and archive data. http://clioh.informatics.iupui.edu/

Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Mercedita, PR
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year collaborative project between Ponce Historical Archives (PHA), the Ponce Museum of History (PMH) and the Inter American University of Puerto Rico will integrate their historical resources by digitizing materials, providing Internet access and training for teachers and other personnel. The training will use information technology and the integration of primary sources into the history curriculum as a strategy for developing information literacy in students. http://ponce.inter.edu

Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, MD
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Maryland Historical Society Library will digitize photographs, manuscript sheet music, audio portions of music and other items from its collection of materials of jazz great Eubie Blake. http://www.mdhs.org

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, Michigan State University Library and the university's Museum will digitize and make available online 75 of the most important American cookbooks published between 1798 and 1923 and accompanying interpretive materials describing their historical. http://digital.lib.msu.edu/cookbooks/index.cfm

Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), Seattle, WA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
Over a two-year period, the Museum of History & Industry and the University of Washington Libraries will collaborate with the Association of King County Historical Organizations to select, scan, and create metadata for 12,000 historic images. The project will address collaboratively the challenges of preserving collections and providing community access. http://www.kcsnapshots.org

Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, Montgomery, AL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In the two-year Cornerstone Project, a collaborative statewide initiative to make historical treasures from Alabama’s archives, libraries, museums, and other repositories electronically accessible, the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries, Alabama Department of Archives and History, Auburn University, and University of Alabama will establish a Web-based digital collection of documents, images, recordings, maps, and multimedia documenting US and Alabama history. http://www.ache.state.al.us/NAAL/cornerst.htm

North Carolina Zoological Society, Asheboro, NC
2001 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The North Carolina Zoological Park, in continuing partnership with the World Wildlife Fund and three public school districts in North Carolina, will create a Web site that focuses on several conservation field researchers working on unique species in a variety of ecosystems. Using photos, video, and narrative to place the researchers in a larger ecological context, this highly interactive site will be used to increase student awareness of resource conservation and the complexity of environmental problems, as well as increase teachers capacity to provide in-depth learning on larger conservation and biodiversity concerns. http://www.fieldtripearth.org/

North Harris Montgomery Community College District - Montgomery College, Houston, TX
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training
The North Harris Montgomery Community College will work with The University Center of the North Harris Montgomery Community College District over a two-year period to develop and implement a combination of on-site and distance learning training programs that will prepare professional librarians and library technicians to respond to the needs of off-campus students; the program will offer distance learning certification for librarians and certificates in library and information technology for technicians. http://projectlead.nhmccd.edu/

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two-year project will make the entire text of The North American Indian by Edward S. Curtis available on the Web in digital format, converted and indexed to facilitate use and capitalize on the unique breadth and richness of the original publication. http://staffweb.library.northwestern.edu/preservation/curtistext/announce.htm

Richmond Public Library, Richmond, CA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The WWII Richmond, California, Home Front Digital Project is a two-year project of the Richmond Public Library, the Richmond Museum of History and John F. Kennedy University’s Department of Museum Studies to bring together text and images from their collections into a single Web site. The digital collection will be accessible through the new Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Park located in the city’s harbor area and will include Web-based instructional programming developed in collaboration with teachers and students that address state teaching standards. http://www.ci.richmond.ca.us/~library

Springfield College- Babson Library, Springfield, MA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
Babson Library at Springfield College will digitize an historical collection of photographs, lantern slides, photo albums, and other pictorial resources related to the history of the Young Men’s Christian Association in the United States. http://www.spfldcol.edu/homepage/library.nsf/home

The Skyscraper Museum, New York, NY
2001 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Skyscraper Museum will create a visual index to the history of Manhattan skyscrapers on the Web. The project will create a digital 3-D model of Manhattan, from which the visitor can explore the history of a building or district by clicking on the map, which is linked to a menu of text and images of related items in the museum collection. This visual index will take advantage of the graphic nature of the collections as well as visitors instinctual understanding of cities. http://www.skyscraper.org

The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive project will result in the creation of an Internet-accessible, fully searchable database of digitized versions of rare library and archival resources on race relations in Mississippi. This two-year project will enhance access to primary source material and create a model for handling copyright and privacy issues associated with digitizing archival collections. http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/crda/

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
With this two-year project, the University of Tennessee will create a full text searchable database of original manuscripts, visual images, and publications documenting the history of Tennessee. This database, composed of searchable transcriptions and OCR'ed texts linked to digital facsimiles, will supplement traditional textbooks on Tennessee history currently used by K-12 teachers and students. http://diglib.lib.utk.edu/tennhist/

University of Arizona Library, Tucson, AZ
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This Geographic Information Systems (GIS)-based, two-year digitization project will create the Arizona Electronic Atlas, a dynamic Web-based interactive state atlas accessible to all levels of users. The project will develop a model workflow and methodology that other organizations can use to develop their own Web-based atlases and other products using appropriate GIS technologies, and will broaden the collaboration between the State's libraries and other State governmental agencies. http://www.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/sst/atlas/home.htm

University of Denver Penrose Library, Denver, CO
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with representative museums and libraries from Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado will explore the degree to which the Colorado Digitization Project (CDP) model for collaboration can be used in other states; explore the issues related to the development of infrastructure for a Digital Library of Western Heritage; test development of a collection of digital primary source materials on Western Trails owned by the participating institutions; provide the general public with access to this virtual collection and findings to the library and museum community. http://www.cdpheritage.org/westerntrails/index.html

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
In this demonstration project, the Illinois-North Carolina Collaborative Environment for Botanical Resources, in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will develop "polyclave" keys for species identification and will train and observe non-professionals in their use. This project will provide Web access to a use-based array of botanical resources developed from a collaborative collection and digitization plan.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This two-year demonstration project will train librarians to build interactive multimedia Web sites for library user education and to evaluate these sites to determine their effectiveness for conveying user education content. Participating libraries include Earlham College, Notre Dame University, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, the University of Minnesota Libraries and the Minneapolis Public Library will scan and make available on their Web sites World War I and World War II posters held by both institutions and searchable through a search engine. http://digital.lib.umn.edu/warposters/warpost.html

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project is a collaborative research project involving the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, the University of Nebraska State Museum, the Nebraska Historical Society, and members of the Omaha Tribe, to locate and catalogue Omaha artifacts and photographic images scattered in museums, libraries, and private collections throughout the world. Key to this project is the development and implementation of a Web site to make the resulting database of Omaha artifacts and an online gallery of Omaha images accessible to tribal members, educators, students, and the general public. http://www-museum.unl.edu/index.html and http://iris.unl.edu/

Washington Research Library Consortium, Upper Marlboro, MD
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Washington Research Library Consortium of seven university libraries in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, will develop a collaborative digital production center to promote the development of digital collections among its member libraries. This two-year project will provide staff and systems organized to plan and manage digitizing projects, scan materials, and design and enter metadata developed in conjunction with library staff. http://www.wrlc.org/dcpc/dcpc.html

Washington State University, Vancouver, WA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The Library and Information Services group at Washington State University Vancouver and the Center for Columbia River History will partner with the Washington State Historical Society, Oregon Historical Society, Washington State University Pullman, and Idaho State Historical Society in the creation of a digital library that educates the under-served general public in the Pacific Northwest. The two-year collaboration will develop a digital archive that highlights the hidden ethnic histories of the region, provides tutorials on how to research and interpret library and museum collections, and encourage public discussion of critical historical and contemporary issues. http://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/crbeha/

WGBH Educational Foundation Archives, Boston, MA
2001 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
The Ten O’Clock News project will digitize and make available on the Web a video archive of the history and culture of Boston’s African American community from 1974 to 1991. This one year project will also create an innovative Web guide to the tapes. http://main.wgbh.org/ton/

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Allen Memorial Art Museum will expand the availability of educational art resources on its Web site for researchers, teachers, students, and the general public. The new searchable database will include images from the collection, explanatory texts for different audiences - scholarly to school-age, and an interactive question and answer section.

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
The goal of this two year project is to develop pattern-recognition tools to recognize cursive script (handwriting) using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology; if successful, the result will enhance digital access to archival information such as genealogical records and other historical resources.

Chicago Academy of Sciences, Chicago, IL
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
In the "Museum Without Walls" (WoW) project, the Chicago Academy of Sciences will develop six online interactive exhibit experiences and programs to bring the museum experience alive online. This project will provide a working model that will break the geographic and financial barriers to new audiences and provide broad access to an informal learning environment. http//www.chias.org

Chicago Horticultural Society/Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, IL
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with the Library of the University of Illinois-Chicago and the Center for Plant Conservation will complete development of the National Collection of Endangered Plants Web Site, which will provide pertinent information about each of the 570 globally rare plants on which CPC member organizations are conducting research and restoration work. http://www.centerforplantconservation.org/NC_Choice.html

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize the core historical literature of home economics; explore integration with the library’s online catalog and interoperability with existing digital repositories at Cornell; and define a set of model workflows for capturing metadata for access and preservation of digital materials. http://chlhe.library.cornell.edu/

Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This one year study will evaluate the economic implications of converting the entire current journal collection of a university library to an all-digital format, using the library’s print and electronic journal collections as the testbed.

Fairfax County Public Library Foundation, Inc., Fairfax, VA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A one year project to develop a model Internet training and services program at a Fairfax County residence for the elderly and evaluate the impact on residents’ quality of life.

Georgia Department of Archives and History, Atlanta, GA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will create an electronic archive of State government documents, including Georgia’s House and Senate journals, executive council minutes, colonial government records, and other material. http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/

Gerald R. Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
A two-year project entitled “Voices of the Colorado Plateau,” in which Southern Utah University will work with seven partner institutions to develop multimedia Web-based museum exhibits using oral histories and images from the combined collections; the project will model a collaborative process whereby geographically isolated regional libraries and museums work together to “tell a greater story.” http://archive.li.suu.edu/voices/voicesx3.html

Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village, Dearborn, MI
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums in the Community
The Youth Mentorship Program partners at-risk young people from the Wayne-Westland Community Schools with an adult museum mentor. Students will receive on-the-job training to teach them problem-solving, team-building, and work ethic. Through the program’s support and resources, these young people will stay in school, complete graduation requirements, and prepare for post-secondary school or the work force. The Museum will also develop a workshop to teach community leaders how to develop similar mentorship programs of their own.

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize nearly 18,000 color slides that comprise the majority of the lifework of amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman (1896-1972) and will provide a model for building a database from which to create a finding aid. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/new/cushman/

Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums in the Community
The Japanese American National Museum and several area organizations (International Institute of Los Angeles, Jewish Historical Society of Southern California, Self-Help Graphics, and Theodore Roosevelt Senior High School) have created a partnership to engage a diverse cross-section of people in the documentation and interpretation of a neighborhood's history. “Boyle Heights: Neighborhood Sites and Insights,” will promote lasting intercultural relations and linkages between organizations and communities. Project activities will include a photo collection day, oral history interviews, an exhibition, neighborhood workshops, a lecture series, and a symposium. Project results will be disseminated though a Web site, a community partnership guidebook, and presentations at conferences.

Johns Hopkins University Milton S. Eisenhower Library, Baltimore, MD
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This one-year project will be the cornerstone initiative in a broad spectrum of multi-faceted activities proposed by the Baltimore Art Resource Online Consortium (BAROC), a consortium formed of The Milton S. Eisenhower Library of The Johns Hopkins University, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Walters Art Gallery and others; IMLS funding will create an electronic gateway to Baltimore’s vibrant art community.

Learning Resource Center, Western Maryland Area Health Education Center, Cumberland, MD
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training
A two year project, in partnership with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Library, to bring the latest developments in health science information technology, resources, and services via a distance education conference to health information professionals who live far from urban centers of research and study. http://www.allconet.org/ahec/bestt

Lee College, Baytown, TX
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project partners Lee College, Sterling Municipal Library and the Baytown Historical Museum in a digitization project to illuminate the history of the oil industry in Texas as well as to develop a unique college level curriculum to train imaging technicians. http://www.lee.edu

Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Lehman College Art Gallery is developing "Public Art in the Bronx," an online multi-media guide to help teachers interpret local artwork - past and present. Grouped into ten neighborhood walking tours, the Web site will include information on local Bronx art and history, maps, lesson plans and activities, an online gallery, and an interactive bulletin board.

Libby School District #4, Libby, MT
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The goal of this two-year project in partnership with The Heritage Museum and The Lincoln County Public Library is to develop a “living museum” designed to showcase local history and culture, including early homesteading, mining and logging, and to demonstrate how to build hands-on working exhibits. http://www.lincolncountylibraries.com/museum

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will create a digital repository of research materials in three languages relating to the era of the Louisiana Purchase, 1800-1815. http://www.lsu.edu/diglib/

Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Lower East Side Tenement Museum will explore the creative potential of the Internet through its "Digital Artists in Residence" program. Web-based artists will produce artwork, focusing on immigration and New York history, for the Museum's Web site and participate in online chats with teachers and students. The Museum will also develop accompanying downloadable lesson plans on a wide array of topics. http://www.tenement.org

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts is already a leader in providing information online. In this project, "What Clicks?," the Museum will conduct an intensive audience research and product evaluation study. The results will help museums learn how to improve their digital products, including exhibitions, lesson plans, and image databases, to increase their accessibility to and use by the public.

Minnesota Alliance for Local History Museums, Prior Lake, MN
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Professional Practices Awards
The Minnesota Alliance for Local History Museums is working to raise the standard of collections management practices among the 500+ rural and small museums in Minnesota. The Alliance will develop a comprehensive manual on the topic, and teach sections of the manual via video teleconferencing sessions. The Alliance will also encourage discussion through problem-solving meetings and an online bulletin board.

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
The Minnesota Historical Society will develop an electronic learning center for the study and teaching of Minnesota history. The project will develop a Web site to electronically connect students, teachers and the general public to historical resources from the Society, libraries, and archives. For teachers, the site will also include curriculum activities tied to state and national history standards and discussion groups. http://events.mnhs.org/timepieces

Montana State Library, Helena, MT
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This two year project will design and demonstrate a state-wide, user-friendly, Web-based distribution system for providing Internet access to digital geospatial and related information at moderate cost through a centralized source, enabling patrons with minimal expertise to use the information effectively. http://nris.state.mt.us/mapper

Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums Online
Three major botanical institutions, The Morton Arboretum, The Field Museum of Natural History, and the Chicago Botanic Garden will develop an online searchable herbarium including specimen data and photographs of Chicago-area plants available to anyone with Internet access. The partners will develop protocols to allow users to search across all three institutions' databases. When complete, this project will be the largest online database of regional flora, with almost 170,000 records. http://www.vPlants.org

Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize materials relating to food production held by the Nebraska State Historical Society, including audio, movie and video resources; create an interactive educational web site, American Bounty: The Story of Food; and develop a training program for educators to help them use the materials effectively. http://www.nebraskahistory.org

New York Public Library, New York, NY
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize 30,000 images in New York Public Library’s Picture Collection; form user groups to address interacting with image-based and other digital information resources; illustrate new ways of using pictorial materials; and assist other picture libraries in their own digital efforts. http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/

Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize campaign song books and candidates’ campaign biographies, covering national politics from 1840 to1860, and will create digital sound files of selected songs recorded by musicians from the digitized song books. http://dig.lib.niu.edu/message/

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Museums in the Community
Oakland Museum of California, the Spanish Speaking Citizens’ Foundation in Oakland, and the Puente Project in Hayward are partnering to expand an innovative program in which inner-city youth collect and preserve the often-overlooked Latino history of Oakland. The students learn about their community’s past through interviews with community elders. With the help of museum professionals and educators, the students will disseminate their results by creating an online exhibition and anthology of community stories.

Tufts University Archives and Special Collections, Medford, MA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will develop links among materials in the Electronic Bolles Archive on the History and Topography of London, exploring the open-ended and generic problems of any digital library system: feature extraction, inductive captioning, and the integration of textual and geospatial data, with the goal of developing a more general model of the needs and possibilities posed by evolving digital library technologies. http://nils.lib.tufts.edu/4000.01/index.html

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This one year project will index and digitize fragile, endangered materials in the General Archives of the State of Sonora, Mexico that document the early history of Arizona and her many different peoples. http://www.library.arizona.edu

University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This one year project doubles the size of the Southeastern Native American Documents digital collection by adding new documents dating back to 1730 and adding the Tennessee State Museum and the Museum of the Cherokee Indian as partners. http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/

University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project in partnership with multiple libraries, museums and school districts will develop a model program to integrate digital primary source materials into K-12 curriculum and educational programs of museums and libraries. http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/TDC/Index.HTM

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The University of Michigan Library and Museum of Natural History will partner in a two-year project to increase access to the Great Lakes region Flora and Fauna collections, and to develop extensible infrastructure for putting the Natural History collections online. http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlakes/

University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A two year study to design evaluation tools that are easily implemented, capture richness, and show how digital community services affect people’s lives.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will create a multi-media database, “North Carolina in Black and White, Beginnings to 1940,” to bring North Carolina’s past vividly to life through printed materials, photographic images, oral history interviews and workplace songs. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/index.html

University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This two year research proposal will establish an interoperability testbed to evaluate software for compliance to a protocol developed to enhance the Z39.50 standard for the electronic exchange of bibliographic information.

University of the Virgin Islands, St. Croix, VI
2000 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two year project will digitize selected historical and cultural Virgin Islands materials, including photographs, newspapers, and textual records, that are currently dispersed throughout various library agencies. http://webpac.uvi.edu/imls/project2002/2000.shtml

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
A two-year project to digitize printed texts and illustrations, manuscripts, and drawings that illustrate and document the establishment of a distinctly American approach to natural science during the first half of the nineteenth century. http://www.acnatsci.org/library/collections/imls/index.html

Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
During this two-year project, the Amistad Research Center, in collaboration with the Louisiana State University Digital Library, will digitize rare documents and images related to the historic Amistad Incident case and the committee of defenders from which the American Missionary Association (AMA) developed. http://www.tulane.edu/%7Eamistad/digital.htm

California Digital Library, Oakland, CA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
In this two-year project, the California Digital Library will lead the Bancroft Library and a group of eight museums in evaluating the capabilities of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) to integrate their collection descriptions into the greater context of a “virtual archive” of museum, library, and archival collections.

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year partnership between the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, and the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will mitigate the common problem of physical space constraints that exists in both libraries and museums. The project aims to produce more effective educational outreach to the public in the form of “Smart Web Exhibits” designed to deliver information from library, museum, and archival collections online to a diverse user community. http://zeeb.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/LIT/Projects/IMLS.html

Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, CT
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
The Connecticut Historical Society, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut and Mystic Seaport Museum will mount an innovative two-year collaboration called "Connecticut History Online.” The project has two major components: the establishment of a comprehensive, Web-based virtual collection of graphic images that document the Connecticut community, and a long-term effort to encourage middle and high school teachers to make meaningful use of the database. http://www.cthistoryonline.org/index.html

Eastern Iowa Community College District, Davenport, IA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This two-year project will develop and demonstrate the Advanced Technology Environmental Education Library (ATEEL) as well as a taxonomy of environmental technology descriptive metadata. ATEEL is an innovative, 24-hour, online library to serve the specialized needs of environmental technology students, faculty and working technologists.

Educational Service Unit 07, Columbus, NE
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training
This two-year project will promote collaboration and provide technology training for Nebraska library professionals, utilizing state distance learning telecommunications networks. http://nema.k12.ne.us/IMLS/index2.html

Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This one-year project will provide access through the World Wide Web to more than 1,200 rare silver-albumen photographs and related original materials documenting the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. http://libwww.library.phila.gov/CenCol/index.htm

Illinois State Library, Springfield, IL
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
This two-year project will establish a model statewide virtual library of significant historic and government documents. http://www.finditillinois.org:2000/igi/

John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
Using the already-digitized Levy Collection, this two-year project will develop a comprehensive suite of tools that will diminish the manual input necessary to manage the workflow of large-scale digitization projects. The project will also add web-based music searching and analysis tools to the database so that users can do tune-based searching, and it will extend plans for developing automated means of mining authoritative name information and creating richer name indexes. http://dkc.mse.jhu.edu/pdaap_project.html

Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, KS
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year partnership between the Kansas State Historical Society and the Kansas Collection at the University of Kansas, will digitize significant primary resources from the Civil War era. The project will produce two outcomes: a virtual repository of the best Territorial Kansas information and artifacts from the two institutions, and curriculum units based on selected digitized items developed to enhance the teaching of U.S. history at the middle school, high school, and college levels. http://www.kshs.org/

Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Professional Practices Awards
NEDCC, in cooperation with the other 13 regional conservation centers in the country, will work together to create a joint Web site which will allow museums 24-hour access to the technical conservation expertise of all the centers. The Web site will include a searchable bibliography of all conservation publications of the centers to guide museums in their search for more detailed information. It will also include a core selection of updateable technical collections care leaflets reproduced in full text to answer some of museums most asked conservation questions. http://www.rap-arcc.org/

Research Foundation of State University, Amherst, NY
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This one-year project will investigate the impact of the Internet on public library use via a national telephone survey. The project will document how people are currently using the public library and the Internet and identify the ways in which libraries and the Internet are competing with and complimenting one another.

Rochester Public Library, Rochester, NY
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
This two-year project entitled "Rochester Images" models a collaboration among a museum (the Rochester Museum & Science Center), a public library (the Rochester Public Library), and an urban public school district (the Rochester City School District) to demonstrate the development of digitized products for educational use. http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/rochimag/

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training
A one-year project to train staff development personnel in libraries of all types as well as library educators in the effective use of new technologies and the design of instructional tools for distance continuing education. http://witloof.sjsu.edu/imls

State Botanical Garden of Georgia, Athens, GA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
In this two-year project, the State Botanical Garden of Georgia and the Duke University Biological and Environmental Sciences Library will create a Web site that will provide a virtual and easily accessible library of plant information to a wide audience in the region and nationwide.

The University of California, Riverside, CA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A two-year project to develop the next generation of the Internet information system INFOMINE. The project will respond to the national need to develop comprehensive, publicly supported, user friendly systems for collecting and disseminating the best of electronic information.

University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This two-year project aims to demonstrate improved access to written material and numerical data on the same topic when searching two very different kinds of databases: text databases (books, articles, and their bibliographic records) and numerical data (socio-economic databases).

University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
Approximately 1,000 of the most significant documents and visual images from several major collections relating to the Native American population of the Southeastern United States will be digitized and made available through a Web site in this one-year project. http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/

University of Illinois at Urbana,Champaign, Champaign, IL
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A two-year project that will develop, implement, and assess community-wide participative models for the creation and management of networked community information services, using as a case study the domain of African American women's physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual health.

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
The goals of this two-year project are to describe the information-seeking activities of bio-acoustic researchers by studying their database and citation uses; identify problems created by discipline-based databases and indexing practices, and suggest design solutions using demonstration of a search engine interface prototype system, suitable for interdisciplinary researchers in bio-acoustics.

University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
A one-year project to preserve unique and rare materials relating to Cuba and will make the materials accessible in digital form. http://www.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.html

University of Texas - Austin, Austin, TX
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A two-year project to provide a set of tools and guidelines that libraries, museums, and other information agencies can use to improve the utility of their Web sites. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/dlp/imls/index.html

University of Virginia Health Sciences Library, Charlottesville, VA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
Approximately 30,000 pages of manuscript material and 1,000 photographs from the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection will be digitized, arranged, described, preserved, and accessed via the World Wide Web in this two-year project. The project will provide a model for the integration of state-of-the-art, standards compliant information technology and scholarly resources to make unique library resources more widely available. http://yellowfever.lib.virginia.edu

Washington State Library, Olympia, WA
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
This one-year project will develop solutions to two issues facing national interoperability of government data: (1) incompatibility of metadata indexes, and (2) inconsistency in the use of controlled vocabularies for classification of government World Wide Web documents and files.

Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
1999 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
A two-year study to explore the ways in which the urban poor interact with and benefit from free access to information technology in the public library. The research aims to assess the impact that having access to information technology makes in the lives of the urban poor.

Alliance Library System, Pekin, IL
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a one-year project to create a regional digital library of archival resources relating to the history of Illinois from 1818 to 1918, in collaboration with the Illinois State Historical Library and other libraries within the state. http://www.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/index.cfm

Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a one-year project, in partnership with the Society of American Archivists and others, to convene a meeting to finalize a formal set of Application Guidelines for Encoded Archival Description, a tool to expand access to archival materials by making finding aids effectively accessible via the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a two-year project, in partnership with the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Public Library, to expand a cooperative project to increase educational services to the Brooklyn community and to develop a national model for attracting and training people from diverse backgrounds in information technology, library science, and museum programs. http://www.brooklynexpedition.org

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to plan and implement an archiving solution for more than 2.5 million digital images created by Cornell in its pioneering imaging projects carried out over the last decade.

Duke University Library, Durham, NC
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a one-year project to demonstrate the use of Encoded Archival Description for finding aids in conjunction with large-scale digital imaging projects, using as a case study the collection of photographs, journals and notebooks of documentary photographer William Gedney. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/gedney/

Florida Center for Library Automation, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a two-year project to create a virtual library of Florida ecological information, in partnership with the Florida Museum of Natural History and the libraries of the University of Florida, Florida International University, and Florida Atlantic University.

Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis (IUPUI) University Libraries, Indianapolis, IN
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a two-year project to collaborate to establish delivery models for digital image resources and content for central Indian K-12 educational communities and public library life-long learners. http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/imls

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to digitize materials in various formats from the Hoagy Carmichael jazz collection (including sound recordings, photographs, and printed and textual materials) and make them available via the Internet and World Wide Web. http://www.dlib.indiana.edu

Missouri Botanical Garden Library, St. Louis, MO
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to develop a database of plant images and associated data from the Missouri Botanical Garden’s library and make it available on the institution’s Web site; create a repository for plant images to which other botanical organizations can contribute; and develop a model program with software for connecting images of any type with associated data. http://ridgwaydb.mobot.org/mobot/imls

Montana State University Libraries, Bozeman, MT
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a one-year project in partnership with the Museum of the Rockies to create a database, Images of the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains, which will make access to important source material on the Plains Indian cultures accessible via the Internet and World Wide Web. http://www.lib.montana.edu/~elainep/imlsabst.html

Museums Alaska, Anchorage, AK
1998 National Leadership Grants for Museums - Professional Practices Awards
To produce a statewide museum brochure, and to create and post a Web site highlighting Alaskan museums. *Museums for the Millennium was a one-time initiative that provided grants to state museum agencies for statewide museum millennium initiatives. http://www.museumsalaska.org

Nah Tah Wahsh Library, Hannahville Indian Community, Wilson, MI
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to provide information about the Hannahville Indian Community, the Potawatomi tribe, and the Woodland Indians of Upper Michigan—including digital copies of documents, photographs, and video and audio clips of interviews with tribal elders—via the Internet and the World Wide Web.

Northeast Document Conservation Center, Andover, MA
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to produce and disseminate an easy-to-use handbook on managing digital projects to meet the needs of libraries and museums.

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to digitize a large collection of League of Nations publications published between 1919 and 1939 and make the materials available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/collections/league/

Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County, Charlotte, NC
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a two-year project in partnership with the Mint Museum of Art to create a program entitled Weaving a Tale of Craft, uniting computer technology, the arts, humanities, and educational resources so the public may learn about North Carolina history and crafts.

University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a one-year project to develop and test a descriptive list of national core data elements, statistics, and performance measures to describe public library network uses and produce a manual describing the resulting elements, statistics and measures and recommending data collection techniques. http://www.albany.edu/~imlsstat/

University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Honolulu, HI
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to develop a digital library of Hawaiian and Pacific Islands materials, using Hawaiian-language newspapers and historical photographs, for use as a teaching tool for Hawaiian-language immersion schools and other purposes. http://libweb.hawaii.edu/hnp/IMLSgrant.htm

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Library-Museum Collaboration
For a two-year project in partnership with three museums, two libraries, and three elementary schools to build a model and a test an electronic database of historical information to be made available via the Internet and World Wide Web. http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/dchc

University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, MI
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a two-year project to investigate the role of librarians in assisting users to find community information on the Internet, using case studies of libraries in Florida, Illinois, and Pennsylvania, and to identify best practices for providing community information electronically. http://www.si.umich.edu/helpseek

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library, Chapel Hill, NC
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to create a full-text database The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865, consisting of an extensive collection of digitized and encoded printed works and manuscripts, maps, illustrations and other materials documenting southern life during the Civil War, and make them available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/index.html

University of North Texas School of Library and Info. Science, Denton, TX
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Education & Training
For a two-year project, in partnership with the African American Museum in Dallas, to train library professionals in digital imaging technologies and information networks leading to Certificates of Advanced Study in digital image management. http://courses.unt.edu/shastings/HastingsWWW/IMLS/imls.html

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a two-year project, in cooperation with four Chinese research libraries, to deliver digital copies of articles from Chinese-language academic journals via the Internet to researchers throughout the United States, with the goal of making the service viable as a cost-recovery operation. http://www.library.pitt.edu/gateway/

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a two-year project to digitize, identify, arrange, describe, and conserve a collection of photographs of African-American educational scenes taken by photographer Jackson Davis in the southern United States between 1915 and 1930. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/speccol/collections/jdavis/

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Research & Demonstration
For a one-year project to digitize field research materials from the university’s African studies program and to make the information accessible for teaching and research purposes via a Web-based public domain database. http://africafocus.library.wisc.edu/

West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, WV
1998 National Leadership Grants for Libraries - Preservation or Digitization
For a one-year project to digitize and create catalog records for a manuscript collection containing the largest known assemblage of records relating to the abolitionist John Brown and make the materials available via the Internet and the World Wide Web. http://wvmemory.wvculture.org/imlsintro.html

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