Resent-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 17:17:47 -0800 (PST)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 20:14:08 -0500
From: William N Oliver
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Though the National Coordinator has yet to acknowledge this, nor
set a discussion period, a motion of magnitude has been made and
seconded, which will probably be numbered #99-5. As Secretary
for the Advisory Board I request this be posted to the widest
possible range to the members of the USGWP, to include the
following lists: USGENWEB-ALL, USGENWEB- DISCUSS, STATE-COORD-L,
and the four Regional Lists. Thank you,

Bill Oliver
Secretary
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I Move the adoption of the following Resolution:

Whereas, the USGenWeb Project has amassed huge amounts of
data, with the
purpose of making it available to all researchers free of
charge, and

Whereas that purpose remains unchanged, and this collection
of data has become
large enough that diversification has become necessary, and

Whereas the Bylaws of The USGenWeb Project addressed this
in Article XIII by
separating the digital library commonly referred to as "the
Archives" into
separate entities, naming them The USGenWeb Archives
Project, The USGenWeb
Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project, and
provided for the
creation of future Special Projects, appointment of
Coordinators for them, and
specified how these things must be accomplished, and

Whereas common sense indicates that each Special Project
should have its own
directory and its own infrastructure for file creation, uploading

and file
maintenance and not have their files co-mingled with those of
any other
Special Project, therefore be it

RESOLVED:

That the Special Projects of the USGenWeb Project be known
collectively as the
USGenWeb Project Digital Library and a page be placed on
the national website
at www.usgenweb.org/library.html and at
www.usgenweb.net/library.html as a
main entrance to the Digital Library, with all Special Projects
of the
USGenWeb Project being listed, a brief history of each
Special Project, as
well as a link provided there to each Special Project, and

That each Special Project will maintain their own directory
and
infrastructure, separate from any other Special Project, and
further

That duplication of the efforts of any Special Project by any
other Special
Project is counterproductive and not to be done; whenever
possible, volunteer
submissions will be referred to the appropriate Special
Project, and

That the National Coordinator of the USGenWeb Project will
instruct the
Webmaster for The USGenWeb Project to place this
Resolution on the Special
Projects page of the national website within 48 hours of its
adoption by the
Advisory Board, and

That the Secretary of the USGenWeb Advisory Board be
required to distribute
this Resolution to all the Regional Mailing Lists, the State
Coordinators
List, and the unofficial USGenWeb -Discuss and
USGenWeb-ALL lists within the
same 48 hour period.

Respectfully submitted,

Ginger Cisewski
Northwest-Plains CC Representative

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I'll second this, if a second is appropriate.

Bridgett Smith