LC National Digital Library-Ameritech Competition Winners

[Tamara Swora-Gober <tswo@xxxxxxx>]

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Announcement of Library of Congress-Ameritech National Digital Library
Competition Award Winners

Thanks to a generous gift from the Ameritech Corporation, over the past
three years the Library of Congress has sponsored a competition 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 are incorporated into the National Digital Library. The
Ameritech program has helped to connect libraries of different sizes and
scope and also brings together important historical documents dispersed
among institutions throughout the United States.

In this the final year of the grant program, grants were awarded to six
institutions. Information about the winners can be found at the
following url   
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/99award/award99.html.

Information about the program including lists of previous winners can be
found at
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award/index.html

The winners are:  (in alphabetical order of lead institution)

Lee Library, Brigham Young University with the Utah Academic Library
Consortium, and the Utah State Historical Society

Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific, 1847-1869
155 items (approximately 6,040 pages) from 59 diaries of overland trail
experiences written between 1847 and 1869, along with 16 maps, 75
photographs and illustrations, and selections from 5 immigrant guides.

Michigan State University with Central Michigan University

Shaping the Values of Youth: A Nineteenth Century American Sunday School
Book Collection 
121 American Sunday school books published between 1815 and 1865 by The
American Tract Society, the American Sunday School Union, and other
religious publishers to teach juvenile readers moral conduct and good citizenship.

Mystic Seaport Museum

Maritime Westward Expansion
7,500 items from the archival collections dating from the mid to late
nineteenth century, including logbooks, diaries, letters, business
papers and other manuscript items, images, imprints and ephemera, and
maps and charts offering a unique maritime perspective on the history of
westward expansion in the U.S.

The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, with the
California Historical Society

Chinese in California, 1850-1920
12,500 items, including photographs, cartoons, personal diaries,
business records, broadsides, pamphlets, and other printed matter
documenting nineteenth and early twentieth century Chinese immigration
to California and the West.

University of Chicago Library with the Filson Club Historical Society of
Louisville, Kentucky

The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820
745 items (15,050 pages) from the rare books, pamphlets, newspapers,
maps, prints, and manuscripts collected by Reuben T. Durrett and by the
Filson Club Historical Society, documenting the settlement of Ohio River
Valley from 1750 to 1820. [Also winners in 1996/97]

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

The Church in The Southern Black Community:  Beginnings to 1920
19,000 pages from approximately 100 works, including autobiographies,
sermons, church reports, religious periodicals, and denominational
histories, tracing the experience of Southern African Americans and the
transformation of Protestant Christianity into the central institution
of black community life. [Also winners in 1996/97.]