Digital Library Services for American Indians

在美洲印第安高等教育联合会（AIHEC）虚拟图书馆项目（http：//www.communitytechnology.org/aihec_vl/）的基础上，该项目正在组织和召开两次工作组会议和一次更大的全国会议，这将产生一项行动计划，以协调和利用涉及AIHEC内数字图书馆和先进技术的研究、开发和培训活动，以及NSF国家科学、数学、工程和技术教育数字图书馆（NSDL）计划受赠者社区中开展的相关活动。 参加会议的有来自部落学院的教师和管理人员、图书管理员、技术专家、美洲土著文化和学习方面的专家以及选定的NSDL项目的领导人。该项目的目标包括：确定和实施使NSDL对美洲印第安人更容易获得、更有意义和更有用的战略; AIHEC正在与密歇根大学信息学院的社区技术联盟合作开展该项目，该联盟在W.K.的资助下支持AIHEC虚拟图书馆的开发。凯洛格基金会。

Building on the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) Virtual Library Project (http://www.communitytechnology.org/aihec_vl/), this project is organizing and convening two task force meetings and a larger national conference that will result in a plan of action for coordinating and leveraging the research, development, and training activities involving digital libraries and advanced technologies within AIHEC and the related activities evolving in the community of grantees of NSF's National Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology Education Digital Library (NSDL) program. Participants in the conferences will include faculty and administrators from tribal colleges, librarians, technology experts, experts in Native American culture and learning, and leaders of selected NSDL projects.Goals of the project include:-- determining and implementing strategies for making the NSDL more accessible, meaningful, and useful to American Indians;-- providing opportunities for tribal colleges to participate in and inform the NSDL during its early development and into the future; and-- creating and extending metadata and classification schemes that incorporate the cultures and views of various American Indians and Alaska Natives.AIHEC is conducting the project in collaboration with the Alliance for Community Technology at the University of Michigan's School of Information, which has supported the development of the AIHEC Virtual Library with funding from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.