INTERNET: DIRECTORIES: Scout Project Plans Online Library Portal with $2.6 Million Grant

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INTERNET: DIRECTORIES: Scout Project Plans Online Library Portal with $2.6
Million Grant

Scout Project Plans Online Library Portal with $2.6 Million Grant
Katy Williams  Published 11/10/04
Wisconsin Technology Network
<http://www.wistechnology.com/article.php?id=1338>


Rachael Bower, Co-Director of the Internet Scout ProjectMadison, Wis.  The
University of Wisconsin-Madisons Internet Scout Project will use a recent
$2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and
technical college educators access to the National Science Digital
Library.

NSDL is a concept that the National Science Foundation came up with to
create a huge digital library of STEM  science, technology, engineering,
and mathematics  resources. There have been a number of projects started
and funded by the NSF to establish this library, said Rachael Bower,
co-director of the Internet Scout Project.

Pathways is one such program that the NSF funds in order to provide
resources for the instructors, students, and other users that benefit from
the digital library. The Internet Scout Project, one of four recipients of
NSF grants, will develop the Applied Mathematics and Science Education
Repository as its Pathways project.

The Pathways grants were an effort by the National Science Foundation to
encourage development in areas of stewardship, Bower said. You pick an
area of stewardship  a part of this huge project  and try to help people
in that area gain as much access as possible. We decided to choose
community and technical colleges, since they educate about 40 percent of
undergrads in this country with only about 18 percent of the funding.

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Like regular libraries, there are materials and there are reference desks
to help people use those materials Bower said. The NSF has been collecting
resources and materials for the online library, and the Pathways projects
that it has funded will serve as online reference desks to all of the
communities they reach.


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