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[1] From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG> (9)
Subject: Ubiquity 3.34
[2] From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@loc.gov> (86)
Subject: New Ameritech Collections in American Memory
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:40:04 +0100
From: ubiquity <ubiquity@HQ.ACM.ORG>
Subject: Ubiquity 3.34
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Ubiquity: A Web-based publication of the ACM
Volume 3, Number 34, Week of October 7, 2002
In this issue:
Interview --
Inside PARC
Johan de Kleer talks about knowledge tracking, smart matter and
other new developments in AI.
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/j_dekleer_1.html
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:41:26 +0100
From: "danna c. bell-russel" <dbell@loc.gov>
Subject: New Ameritech Collections in American Memory
Good afternoon,
This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our
apologies for duplicate postings.
With a gift from Ameritech in 1996, the Library of Congress sponsored a
three-year competition ending in 1999 to enable public, research, and
academic libraries, museums, historical societies, and archival
institutions (except federal institutions) to create digital collections of
primary resources. These digital collections complement and enhance the
collections of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of
Congress. They will be part of a distributed collection of converted
library materials and digital originals to which many American institutions
will contribute. The most recent additions to the American Memory
collections are The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820,
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869, and
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934.
The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 is drawn from the
holdings of the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Historical
Society of Louisville, Kentucky. Among the sources included are books,
periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, scientific publications, broadsides,
letters, journals, legal documents, ledgers and other financial records,
maps, physical artifacts, and pictorial images. It incorporates roughly
15,000 pages. The collection documents the travels of the first Europeans
to enter the trans-Appalachian West, the maps tracing their explorations,
their relations with Native Americans, and their theories about the
region's mounds and other ancient earthworks. Naturalists and other
scientists describe Western bird life and bones of prehistoric
animals. Books and letters document the new settlers' migration and
acquisition of land, navigation down the Ohio River, planting of crops, and
trade in tobacco, horses, and whiskey. Leaders from Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison to Isaac Shelby, William Henry Harrison, Aaron Burr, and
James Wilkinson comment on politics and regional conspiracies. Documents
also reveal the lives of trans-Appalachian African Americans, nearly all of
them slaves; the position of women; and the roles of churches, schools, and
other institutions. This collection can be found at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/icuhtml/ >.
Trails to Utah and the Pacific: Diaries and Letters, 1846-1869 incorporates
49 diaries, in 59 volumes, of pioneers trekking westward across America to
Utah, Montana, and the Pacific between 1847 and the meeting of the rails in
1869. The diarists and their stories are the central focus and the
important voices in this collection, which also includes 43 maps, 82
photographs and illustrations, and 7 published guides for
immigrants. Forty-five men and four women wrote of their experiences while
traveling along the Mormon, California, Montana or Oregon trails.
Twenty-three writers (21 men and 2 women) were travelers along the Mormon
Trail, while 19 men and one woman were chroniclers of the California Trail.
Three men wrote about their travels to Oregon. John C. Anderson traveled
with his brother-in-law and a cook by "ambulance" to Montana and returned
by boat to the east, while Kate Dunlap traveled with her husband and
children to settle permanently in Bannock City, Montana. Benjamin Ross
Cauthorn, along with his parents and brothers, thought their destination
was the 1860s gold rush territory of Montana, only to discover, upon
reaching Montana, that it was late in the gold game and so they pushed on
to Oregon. Stories of persistence and pain, birth and death, God and gold,
trail dust and debris, learning, love, and laughter, and even trail tedium
can be found in these original "on the trail" accounts. The collection
tells the stories of Mormon pioneer families and others who were part of
the national westering movement, sharing trail experiences common to
hundreds of thousands of westward migrants.
The source materials for this collection are housed at Brigham Young
University, the University of Utah, Utah State University, the Church
Archives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Utah State
Historical Society, the University of Nevada, Reno, the Churchill County
Museum in Fallon, Nevada, and Idaho State University. This collection can
be found online at <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/upbhtml/>
Reclaiming the Everglades: South Florida's Natural History, 1884-1934
includes a rich diversity of unique or rare materials: personal
correspondence, essays, typescripts, reports and memos; photographs, maps
and postcards; and publications from individuals and the government. Major
topics and issues illustrated include the establishment of the Everglades
National Park; the growth of the modern conservation movement and its
institutions, including the National Audubon Society; the evolving role of
women on the political stage; the treatment of Native Americans; rights of
individual citizens or private corporations vs. the public interest; and
accountability of government as trustees of public resources, whether for
the purposes of development, reclamation, or environmental protection. The
materials in this online compilation are drawn from sixteen physical
collections housed in the archives and special collections of the
University of Miami, Florida International University and the Historical
Museum of Southern Florida. These collections are normally available only
by appointment at the holding library in Miami. "Reclaiming the
Everglades" now makes these valuable materials freely accessible to users
worldwide. This collection can be found online at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award98/fmuhtml/>.
Additional information on the LC/Ameritech competition can be found at
<http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/>. Please direct any questions to
<http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-memory.html>.
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