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The Internet Scout Project, a 10-year-old UW research unit, has received a $2.6 million grant to improve access to the National Science Foundations National Science Digital Library (NSDL).
The aim of the NSDL is to create an online library of digital resources and services to help a wide variety of users access and use the librarys resources in their everyday environments.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison's Internet Scout Project will use a recent $2.6 million grant to develop a program that will provide community and technical college educators access to the National Science Digital Library.
From the beginning, the Internet Scout Project has been on the job, providing better tools for finding, filtering and presenting online information. Internet Scout is currently celebrating its first decade on the Web and also looking forward to a future of continuing exploration and service, including a new, four-year development program targeting community and technical colleges.
As the information revolution took hold, some groups envisioned the need to find structure among growing volumes of electronic files. The Internet Scout Project was established in 1994 to develop better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information. The Scout Project team combines library and computer science organizational concepts with the latest Internet technology to create information and software solutions for educators, librarians and researchers.