from _Web Beat_ by Bill Zapcic, published in the NJ Home News Tribune 9/05/03:
"When the jetliners smashed into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon almost two years
ago, Americans were paralyzed by the shock. Many spun their wheels, unable to get
traction: Nothing like this had ever happened before.
As the days passed, the Web served as a public square, letting people share their
grief, their fears, their hopes. After a while, the online public square morphed
into a memorial garden. Like physical memorial gardens, this virtual collection
has some maps. Here are a few guides to sites that remember saints, heroes,
victims, fellow travelers on the road of life.
The September 11 Digital Archive was put together by the Center for History and
New Media at George Mason University and the American Social History Project at
the City University of New York Graduate Center. The Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of American History is a partner too, and the Library of Congress
has just accepted the archive as part of its permanent collection. The Digital
Archive is a collection of still and video images, audio clips and text
reminiscences of Sept. 11 and the days after. Even now it's open for contributions;
as recent headlines have pointed out, families are still trying to cope with what
happened. The site says it wants something from everyone who was touched by the
events of the day. Put in your thoughts.
The September 11 Web Archive is a joint project of the Library of Congress, the
Internet Archive and webArchivist.org. The Library of Congress commissioned the
archive; the Internet Archive archived the Web sites; WebArchivist.org developed
the site. The Web Archive's emphasis is on Internet-based outcries posted after
the terrorists' atrocities. Every time you refresh the main page, a new "featured
link" appears. There's an easily navigated directory, too.
[need] help making sense of this... That's where social scientists come in.
Their professional organization assembled essays from across the globe . If you
need to understand how you feel, what perhaps motivated the killers, what
continues to drive the Islamist terrorist movement, how America and Americans fail
to comprehend the Middle East, this is your place.”
posted by:
Alice Yucht, lifelong Teacher-Librarian
aka *Alice in InfoLand,* somewhere in central New Jersey
Information Skills/Library Management consultant, writer, and presenter
Author: FLIP it! info-skills strategy (Linworth, 1997)
ermail: aliceinfo at excite.com
website: http://www.aliceinfo.org
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