{"id":2,"date":"2012-06-17T22:51:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T22:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2012-06-19T03:28:27","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:28:27","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><em>ILS652 Digital Memorials and Cultural Archives<\/em><\/strong> is offered through a joint venture between VOICES of September 11th and Southern Connecticut State University. Funded through a U.S. Department of Education\/FIPSE grant in support of the 9\/11 Living Memorial digital archive to commemorate the lives and stories of September 11, 2001 and the February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, ILS652 is offered as a scholarship award course.<\/p>\n<p>The scholarships and awards provide support to graduate students and professionals in library science, history, social work, and other appropriate fields who want to build skills: 1) to develop memorials and archives which preserve the heritage of groups and events through, Websites, CD-ROM, and other digital products; and 2) to gather information and artifacts, organize, preserve, and make accessible the collections.<\/p>\n<p>Up to ten thousand-dollar scholarship awards were awarded this semester for enrolling in <em>Digital Memorials and Cultural Archives<\/em>, developed and taught by Nancy Florio. The course is offered through the Department of Information and Library Science, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>primary criteria<\/strong> for these scholarships and awards are:<\/p>\n<p>1) the applicant\u2019s desire to have working knowledge and experience of how to develop and maintain a digital memorial or cultural archives, and<br \/>\n2) the scholarship committee\u2019s desire to have the widest diversity of participants.<\/p>\n<p>Applications are submitted to the following committee for consideration:<\/p>\n<p>VOICES Scholarship Committee @ ILS<br \/>\nSouthern Connecticut State University<br \/>\n501 Crescent Street, Buley 401T<br \/>\nNew Haven, CT 06515<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ILS652 Digital Memorials and Cultural Archives is offered through a joint venture between VOICES of September 11th and Southern Connecticut State University. Funded through a U.S. Department of Education\/FIPSE grant in support of the 9\/11 Living Memorial digital archive to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/?page_id=2\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ils652.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}