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The Digital Library of Appalachia (DLA) operates as a
department within the Central Library that is a division of
the Appalachian College Association.
The DLA Committee develops and revises policy and
procedures for the DLA repository and sees to the maintenance
and appearance of the site itself. In addition, the Committee
recruits and trains new contributors to the
collection, while assisting in any way possible both new and
ongoing contributors. Finally, the Committee participates in
activities peripheral to the DLA repository that promote
better preservation and understanding of the Appalachian
culture. Ways these peripheral activities have been carried
out have been through research, workshops, grant development
and implementation in the preservation of materials. Also, a
popular workshop series has featured authors and institutions
who speak to the Appalachian experience.
The Mission,
Membership,
and Reports
of the Committee are provided at this site. The Committee
works not only with ACA member libraries, but also with
museums, heritage centers, and other Appalachian centers both
on the campuses of ACA members and in the region. Sometimes
the committee includes representatives from these
constituencies.
The DLA Committee functions largely through its
listserv and through the activities of individual committee
members working with individuals at ACA member sites. In this
way, Committee resources are more directly applied to the
development of the site than to maintaining a more
conventional meeting schedule. Meetings are called when an
issue cannot easily be resolved across the listserv.
The DLA Committee is commissioned by, and holds itself
accountable to, the ACA Library Council.
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