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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] -- ---------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------