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- ALAWON Vol. 1, No. 6
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- ALAWON
- ALA Washington Office Newsline
- An electronic publication of the
- American Library Association Washington Office
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- Volume 1, Number 6
- August 11, 1992
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- In this issue: (219 lines)
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- INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AND TECHNOLOGY ACT
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- Senator Albert Gore, Jr. (D-TN) introduced on July 1 an NREN applications
- bill as a follow-up to his High-Performance Computing Act which established
- the National Research and Education Network. S. 2937, the Information
- Infrastructure and Technology Act of 1992, would develop and deploy new
- applications of high-performance computing for K-12 education,
- manufacturing, health care, and digital libraries. A House companion
- measure was introduced August 4 by Rep. George Brown, Jr. (D-CA). See the
- July 1 _Congressional Record_, p. S9538-41, for the text and Gore's
- statement; August 4 (pp. E2358-59) for Brown's remarks.
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- In explaining the new applications, Senator Gore said:
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- For example, it will fund development of new ways to use high-speed
- networks to link high schools and elementary schools so that teachers
- and students can communicate with their colleagues around the country,
- access digital libraries of information, and consult with experts in
- colleges, universities, Federal labs, and companies....It will
- accelerate development of supercomputers, massive data bases, and the
- software needed to use them, so that even the most remote library can
- tap into more information than is stored in the entire Library of
- Congress.
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- Generally, funds authorized in these bills (a total of $90 million the
- first year, increasing to $370 million the fifth year) would be used by
- sci/tech agencies under the jurisdiction of congressional science
- committees. Gore chairs a science subcommittee; Brown a full science
- committee.
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- EDUCATION: The National Science Foundation would support pilot projects to
- connect K-12 schools to the Internet and the NREN to aid in development of
- the software, hardware, and training material needed to enable students and
- teachers to use networks for communication with peers around the country,
- with educators and students in colleges and universities, for teacher
- training, and to access databases of electronic information.
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- MANUFACTURING: The Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards
- and Technology would establish an Advanced Manufacturing Systems and
- Networking Project.
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- HEALTH CARE: The National Library of Medicine would support testbed
- networks for linking hospitals, clinics, doctors' offices, medical schools,
- medical libraries, and universities to enable health care providers and
- researchers to share medical data and imagery; software, visualization, and
- virtual reality technologies; and database technology to provide health
- care providers with access to relevant medical information and literature.
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- DIGITAL LIBRARIES: The National Science Foundation and the National
- Aeronautics and Space Administration would develop technologies for digital
- libraries of electronic information, including advanced data storage
- systems capable of giving thousands of users nearly instantaneous access;
- high-speed systems for converting multimedia images into electronic form;
- database search and filter software; standards for electronic data;
- computer technology to organize electronic information; training of
- database users and librarians in the use of and development of electronic
- databases; technology to simplify use of networked databases; and
- visualization technology for quickly browsing large volumes of imagery.
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- An additional associate director of the Office of Science and Technology
- Policy would be added to oversee federal efforts to disseminate sci/tech
- information. The bills are not likely to be acted on in the little time
- remaining in this election year session. They will come up again next
- year, however, and the ALA Washington Office would be interested in library
- community reaction to them. For instance, is there an NREN application
- area that would be of particular help to libraries? What is the library
- research agenda for the NREN?
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