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The following organizations are members of the Audio-Visual Working Group:
Defense Visual Information (DVI) Directorate
The Defense Visual Information (DVI) Directorate develops policy, guidelines, procedures, and programs that support Department of Defense (DoD) objectives and operations. DVI activities include the Defense Imagery Management Operations Center (DIMOC), planned to reach full operational capabilities by 2011. DIMOC will provide an enabling architecture to synchronize and integrate various DoD imagery capabilities and centrally manage current and historical visual information. This management embraces born digital content as well as older formats that must be digitized for use. At the end of its period of service to DoD, DVI content is offered for further retention in the National Archives.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services
The Institute of Museum and Library Services is the primary source of federal support for the nation's 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas. The Institute works at the national level and in coordination with state and local organizations to sustain heritage, culture, and knowledge; enhance learning and innovation; and support professional development. To learn more about the Institute, please visit www.imls.gov.
WEB: www.imls.gov
CONTACT: Rachel Frick | rfrick@IMLS.GOV
Library of Congress
Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with more than 134 million physical items—books, newspapers, periodicals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, films, and sound recordings. A similarly broad spectrum of digitized materials is available through the Library's Web site (www.loc.gov). The Library also leads a national effort focussing on preservation of and long-term access to digital content (www.digitalpreservation.gov).
WEB: www.loc.gov
CONTACT: Carl Fleischhauer | cfle@loc.gov
The National Agricultural Library
The National Agricultural Library, which holds one of the world's largest agricultural information collections, serves as the nexus for a national network of state land-grant and U.S. Department of Agriculture field libraries. NAL’s digitization efforts focus on USDA authored peer-reviewed articles and publications as well as historical USDA publications. Full-text repositories and digital images can be accessed via the Library’s web site.
WEB: www.nal.usda.gov
CONTACT: Patricia Murphy | access@nal.usda.gov
The National Archives and Records Administration
The mission of the National Archives is to serve American democracy by safeguarding and preserving the records of our government, ensuring that people can discover, use, and learn from this documentary heritage. It ensures continuing access to the essential documentation of the rights of American citizens and the actions of their government. The National Archives meets a wide range of information needs, among them helping people to trace their families' history, making it possible for veterans to prove their entitlement to medical and other benefits, and preserving original White House records. The National Archives carries out its mission through a nationwide network of archives, records centers, and Presidential Libraries, and on the Internet at www.archives.gov. Information on the National Archives digitization initiatives can be found at: http://www.archives.gov/digitization/. An online catalog including digitized records of the National Archives nationwide holdings can be found at: http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/.
WEB: www.archives.gov
CONTACT: Steven Puglia | steven.puglia@nara.gov
THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGIES
The National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) is a non-regulatory federal agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce (http://www.commerce.gov/). NIST's mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. NIST Laboratories (http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/labs2.htm), located in both Gaithersburg, Md., and Boulder, Colo., conduct research in a wide variety of physical and engineering sciences. The labs respond to industry needs for measurement methods, tools, data, and technology. NIST researchers collaborate with colleagues in industry, academic institutions, and other government agencies.
WEB: www.nist.gov
CONTACT: Wo Chang | wchang@nist.gov
The National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest medical library. The library collects materials and provides information and research services in all areas of biomedicine and health care. The collection contains more than nine million book and nonbook items. The Library is digitizing selected special collections and back files of important biomedical journals. It also has created a number of online exhibitions containing digitized materials from the collection.
WEB: www.nlm.nih.gov
CONTACT: Walter Cybulski |
cybulskw@mail.nlm.nih.gov
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is the largest museum and research complex in the world. It consists of 19 museums and galleries, 9 research centers, and the National Zoo. The Institution cares for an estimated 137 million historical artifacts, works of art and natural history specimens, 1.5 million library volumes and rare books, 89,000 cubic feet of archival material, and more than 2,000 animals. Smithsonian experts conduct research in art, history, culture, science and technology. To enhance public access to this research and our vast collections, Smithsonian professionals are digitizing as much as possible as rapidly as possible and making these assets available via the Web and other technologies—all in pursuit of the Smithsonian’s mission “the increase and diffusion of knowledge."
WEB: http://www.si.edu/
The U.S. Government Printing Office
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is the Federal Government’s primary centralized resource for gathering, cataloging, producing, providing, authenticating, and preserving published U.S. Government information in all its forms. GPO is responsible for the production and distribution of information products and services for all three Branches of the Federal Government. In addition to publication sales, GPO makes government information available at no cost to the public through GPO Access (www.gpoaccess.gov), and through partnerships with more than 1,250 libraries nationwide participating in the Federal Depository Library Program. More information on GPO's Digitization and Preservation Initiatives can be found at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legacy/index.html.
WEB: www.gpo.gov
CONTACT: TBD
The Voice of America
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts more than 1,250 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 115 million people on radio, television, and the Internet. VOA has a growing worldwide network of more than 1,200 local affiliate stations, which include FM and AM radio stations, television stations and networks, and cable systems. VOA’s mission is to broadcast accurate, balanced, and comprehensive news and information. With a staff of more than 1,100, VOA broadcasts in 45 languages. Digital content at VOA is central to the production of new programs and also results from the digitization of selected analog materials from its historical archives
WEB: www.voanews.com
CONTACT: janderse@voanews.com
Last Updated: 04/29/2009