Inst. on Digital Library Development ONLINE

[Roy Tennant]

INSTITUTE ON DIGITAL LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT ONLINE
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/IDLD/

The Institute on Digital Library Development (IDLD) was a five-day 
workshop to retool librarians, archivists, and museum professionals with 
the skills they need to use existing tools and proven techniques to place 
library content on the Internet. Thirty-six professionals were trained 
during two separate sessions (July 15-19 and July 29-August 2, 1996) of 
eighteen participants each. The Institute was supported by a grant from 
the U.S. Department of Education, Higher Education Act Title II-B grant 
and the UC Berkeley Library. The Institute was free to participants, who 
were selected by application, and the grant provided $10,000 for 
participant scholarships to defray travel costs. Each participant had a 
dedicated 90Mhz Pentium computer with 16MB of RAM with which to complete 
their exercises and lab work.

Since one of the goals of the Institute was to make the materials used in 
the Institute available to those who could not attend, the Institute Web 
site offers many of the handouts, lecture notes and presentations used by 
the Institute faculty and guest lecturers. Presentations are available in 
both native Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat versions.