Casorso, 'Apple Computer Equipment Grant', NCSU Libraries Newsletter v18n05 (August 1991)
 
_The NCSU Libraries Newsletter_
Volume 18 no. 5
August 1991
Casorso, Tracy M.
"Apple Computer Equipment Grant"


The Apple Library of Tomorrow Grant Program, sponsored by 
Apple Computer, Inc., has awarded the NCSU Libraries two 
desktop computer systems, complete with color scanners, 
enabling the library to explore the electronic delivery of color 
images of research materials to researchers locally and 
nationwide.  The Apple program supports investigations into 
the innovative use of Apple computers in library settings.

This award will enable the NCSU Libraries to expand a current 
research initiative, the NCSU Digitized Document 
Transmission Project.  The study was begun with funding 
from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and with a Title II-D 
research and demonstration grant from the U.S. Department of 
Education.  Led by the NCSU Libraries in cooperation with the 
National Agricultural Library and twelve other land-grant 
libraries, the two-year project is investigating issues 
involved in the transmission of digitized documents via the 
national Internet computer network.  According to Project 
Manager Tracy Casorso, "Further expanding the project to 
include two of the NCSU campus branch libraries [Natural 
Resources and Textiles] allows us to investigate the 
transmission of images directly to the researcher and to 
experiment in-depth with color scanning, image compression, 
and new technologies."