Digital Library Services for American Indians

在美国印第安人高等教育联盟（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集两次工作组会议和一次更大的全国会议，该会议将产生一项行动计划，以协调和利用研究、开发、以及AIHEC内涉及数字图书馆和先进技术的培训活动，以及美国国家科学基金会国家科学、数学、工程和技术教育数字图书馆（NSDL）计划受助群体中发展的相关活动。参加会议的人员包括部落学院的教职员工和管理人员、图书馆员、技术专家、美洲原住民文化和学习方面的专家，以及选定的国家自然科学图书馆项目的负责人。该项目的目标包括：确定和实施战略，使美国印第安人更容易获得、更有意义和更有用；-在NSDL的早期发展和未来，为部落学院提供参与和提供信息的机会；创建和扩展元数据和分类方案，将各种美国印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民的文化和观点结合起来。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. Kellogg基金会的资助下支持AIHEC虚拟图书馆的开发。

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.