> Institute of Museum and Library Services      Eileen Maxwell
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> For Immediate Release June 8, 2000               Mamie Bittner
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> FIRST MONDAY
> PUBLISHES IMLS WEB-WISE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
>
> Washington, DC - - Libraries and museums are using technology to provide
> access to ideas and information in new and innovative ways. This spring,
> IMLS, in coordination with the University of Missouri-Columbia, presented
> "Web-Wise: A Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World".
> Nearly 200 developers of digital libraries, library and museum
> professionals, and policy makers attended the conference.  Themes included
> partnerships to build networked infrastructures, involving users in the
> development of digital libraries, and developing standards for digital
> library management, interoperability and preservation. The accomplishments
> of IMLS grantees and others were highlighted in a series of presentations
> that have now been published by the on-line journal FIRST MONDAY,
> <http://www.firstmonday.org>.
>
> FIRST MONDAY is one of the first peer-reviewed journals published on the
> Internet, about the Internet. It expands the frontiers of academic
> publishing by combining the traditional values of peer review with
> publication on the World Wide Web. The Web-Wise conference is First
> Monday's first special issue.
> <http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/index.html>
>
> The Institute of Museum and Library Services fosters leadership,
> innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's 15,000
> museum sites and 122,000 libraries.  IMLS is an independent Federal grant
> making agency operating under authority of the Museum and Library Services
> Act of 1996, P.L. 104-208. The Act consists of the Library Services and
> Technology Act and the Museum Services Act.  For more information,
> including grant guidelines, contact: IMLS, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
> Washington, DC, 20506, (202) 606-8536, or <http://www.imls.gov>.
>
>
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