***Please excuse any cross postings*** Seven institutions have collaborated to bring the history of California's Santa Clara Valley (better known as Silicon Valley) to the Internet. The libraries, archives, and museums involved in the project received an LSTA grant from the California State Library to digitize 1,000 images by the end of August, 2004.
We currently have about 300 items online, and more are being added every day. The site will ultimately feature lesson plans as well as historical essays to provide further context for the digitized materials. Materials represented on the site will span the human history of the region, from Ohlone baskets to silicon wafers, and will include maps, ephemera, photographs, and artifacts. This is the first such site documenting the history of the Santa Clara Valley. The site can be found at <http://www.SiliconValleyHistory.org>. If you have time, please fill out our survey, available from the "About" page, to let us know what you think! This project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. Heather Arnold Silicon Valley History Online Project Archivist siliconvalleyhistory.org [email protected] 408-521-5021 --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
