With my colleagues, Sarah Shreeves, Tim Cole (UIUC) and Jenn Riley (IU), 
I am pleased to announce that IMLS has funded the University of Illinois 
and Indiana University to jointly create a training program that will 
address the needs of library, museum, and cultural heritage 
professionals in the creation, development, and use of shareable 
descriptive metadata.  We plan to develop and conduct weeklong online 
training courses that professionals can take at their own pace to learn 
what constitutes shareable metadata, how to think critically about their 
metadata within their local context, and how to produce shareable 
metadata.  In addition, the team will hold a series of onsite workshops 
at different locations to train cultural heritage professionals in the 
development and use of shareable metadata.  As well as Illinois and 
Indiana, locations will include Emory University, the Collaborative 
Digitization Program in Colorado, and the Online Archive of California.

For further information, contact Nuala Koetter, [log in to unmask]


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 Nuala Koetter, Head, Digital Services and Development Unit
 Associate Professor of Library Administration
 University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign
 Email: [log in to unmask]  | http://images.library.uiuc.edu
 Tel. +(217) 333-9048      | Fax. +(217) 333-2214
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