What a wonderful gift to us all Judy! I'm looking forward to Presidents Week so I can enjoy a leisurely look at what you've described. Best wishes in your new job as DPC/PSCLS (that's my alphabet soup of your whole-mouthful title!) best, Debbie Abilock Curriculum Coordinator Director of Technology and Library The Nueva School 6565 Skyline Blvd. Hillsborough, CA 94010 [log in to unmask] http://www.nuevaschool.org Editor, Knowledge Quest http://www.ala.org/aasl/kqweb/index.html [log in to unmask] (KQ) "It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." (Jacob Bronowski) > -----Original Message----- > From: American Memory Fellows [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of > Judith K. Graves > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:17 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Hi > > > ---------------------- Information from the mail header > ----------------------- > Sender: American Memory Fellows <[log in to unmask]> > Poster: "Judith K. Graves" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Hi > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------- > > Hi Y'all, > By now you must be wondering just who IS here since you've heard recently > from both Susan and Karen that they are moving on to do other things! > > Change brings both growth and growing pains, and we've been doing a bit of > both lately. The National Digital Library Program is being > integrated into > the Library's other functions. Essentially this means that the expertise > of those of us in the NDL is now going to be at the disposal of the other > portions of the Library to help them move into the digital age. American > Memory will continue; the Learning Page will continue; amfellows list will > continue; our jobs will continue, albeit with different titles and a few > added responsibilities, and the Library's web site will grow and > get better > and better. > > I now have the title of Digital Project Coordinator in the Public Service > Collections of Library Services. That means nothing to you - nor should > it, since it's the Office of Personnel Management's way of describing a > job! It really means that we get to apply everything we know and have > developed for the educational outreach portion of American Memory to all > those wonderful collections and their divisions Library-wide. Remember > visiting all those reading rooms when you toured the Library? Those are > the people I'll be working with to develop programs that will be available > to the Web-public. It's an expanded opportunity to make more available to > those not fortunate enough to be able to be Fellows or to visit > Washington. > > The Learning Page has not been idle either in expanding opportunities to > reach a broader group. As much as we have enjoyed our work with you, we'd > like to share our resources with your colleagues and their colleagues and > theirs and theirs. To start that process, we have all the workshops, > handouts, etc that we used in the institutes on the Educators Page of the > Learning Page. (Leni can fill you in on other great things going on > there. There are no idle hands in that department!) > > (NOTE: For Fellows in the first three years, we moved the fourth and > fifth years to the Library in our refitted Learning Center. We split the > institute into two one-week sessions and customized the workshops to meet > the needs of each week's group. This gave us workshops for elementary, > middle, and high school teachers, rather than one-size-fits-all > workshops. We created a special password-protected web site on the > Library's server where all of these materials resided and put all > orientation and institute materials, including workshops, handouts, and > draft lessons there. These are the workshops and handouts that are now on > the Learning Page in the Educators section. As a bonus, we > videotaped some > of the workshops at the last institute and have plans to add > video clips to > the workshops. That's in the future and will have to wait until we catch > our breath after the NDL integration is complete.) > > In addition, we are integrating the Fellows' workshops into our in-house > workshop program, as well as our videoconference offerings. Plans are > afoot for more web workshops as well. > > More change is underway this year as we meld into the Library's > structure. I can only say that our work during the first six years of the > NDL will inform and enrich the next six (and more) years. I, personally, > have you to thank for all the ideas, inspiration, hard work, workshops, > presentations, and lessons that you have contributed to bringing the > Library's digital resources to colleagues, parents, and students. Stay > tuned, I'm sure there will be more you can share in the future! > > Happy Valentine's Day, > Judy >