Twelve libraries, museums, and historical societies from across the United States were awarded more than $615,000 April 20 in the third and final round of prizes in the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition. The three-year program has a goal of placing 5 million historically significant images on the Internet by the year 2000.
The winners are Brigham Young University’s Lee Library, the University of Utah, Utah State University, and the Utah Historical Society for “Pioneer Trails: Overland to Utah and the Pacific”; Michigan State University and Central Michigan University for “Shaping the Values of Youth: A 19th-Century American Sunday School Book Collection”; Mystic Seaport Museum for “Maritime Westward Expansion”; the University of California/Berkeley’s Bancroft Library and the California Historical Society for “Chinese in California, 1850–1920”; the University of Chicago Library and the Filson Club Historical Society of Louisville, Kentucky for “The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750–1820”; and the University of North Carolina for “The Church in the Southern Black Community: Beginnings to 1920.”
Posted May 3, 1999.