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December 27, 2010

PROSPECT ARCHIVE OF CHILDREN'S WORK IS ONLINE

Bonnie Navarro and I, as chairs of Prospect's Archives Committee, are pleased to announce that the Prospect Archive of Children's Work is now live online at the University of Vermont Web site. The url is:

http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect>http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/getCollection.xql?pid=prospect&title=Prospect

Because it is a newly live collection it is one of the featured collections on the Center for Digital Archives' Web site. This means that the portal to our site currently appears on the CDI home page:

http://cdi.uvm.edu/collections/index.xql


Many thanks to everyone who was involved in making this happen, including the members of the Archives Committee of the Prospect Center; Bruce Turnquist, who acted as liaison between Prospect and Special Collections; and Chris Burns, Robin Katz, and Erica Donnis at the Bailey/Howe Library Special Collections and Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont. Thanks, too, to Heidi Watts for initiating our connection with UVM, which led to finding a home for Prospect's Archives and the creation of the digital site.

We invite you to explore the Web site, to make comments, and certainly, to use it. If you know of people who might be interested in checking out or using the site, please spread the word.

We are excited to see the site up in the public domain. It has been a long-term goal of the Archives Committee to increase access to Prospect's Archives, and Chris Burns of Special Collections feels that the Archive of Children's Work will be a heavily used collection. That is music to our ears!

Ellen Schwartz

Posted by lstrieb at December 27, 2010 10:48 PM

Comments

I just looked at the UVM Prospect Archive site. I am in awe of every aspect of the site and what it represents. The quote from Froebel (sp?) stopped me in my tracks; it caused me to reflect on how I "teach" and what I should really be doing with students. I am constantly struggling with the prevailing paradigm of school and what I know it can be. Thank you for making this place available.

Posted by: Vince Amodeo at January 2, 2011 1:50 PM

Congratulations on completion of a HUGE job, and one that will benefitso many! The site is gorgeous to look at, and easy to navigate. An amazing job.

Posted by: Carol Rodgers at January 3, 2011 6:17 AM

What outstanding news! Thank you all for this version of access to the Prospect work. It is such an important and welcome form of continuity as we move into 2011. All my best to you all.

Posted by: Paige M. Bray at January 3, 2011 3:14 PM