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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: ACLS NEWS

David Green (david@cni.org)
Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:27:21 -0500 

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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:27:21 -0500
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From: david@cni.org (David Green)
Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: ACLS NEWS

NINCH ANNOUNCMENT
January 20, 1996


NEWS FROM THE AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES


1.  ACLS ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT: JOHN H. D'ARMS

The American Council of Learned Societies has announced that John H. D'Arms
will assume the presidency of the ACLS September 1, 1997.

John H. D'Arms is Gerald F. Else Professor of the Humanities, Professor of
Classical Studies, and Professor of History at the University of Michigan.
He succeeds Stanley N. Katz who became President of ACLS in July, 1986.

For full details of the announcement, consult the ACLS press release at
<http://www.acls.org/extra.htm>.  The release quotes Sheldon Hackney,
Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, as commenting: "John
D'Arms is one of those wise figures to whom we all turn instinctively for
advice. His broad experience in the world of scholarship and teaching, and
in the institutional settings that make scholarship and teaching possible,
have prepared him well for the national leadership that we have come to
expect from the president of the ACLS. I am absolutely delighted by the
appointment."

The American Council of Learned Societies, under the leadership of Stan
Katz, was one of the initial creators of NINCH, together with the Coalition
for Networked Information and the Getty Information Institute.


2.  ACLS NEWSLETTER ON INTERNET-ACCESSIBLE SCHOLARLY RESOURCES AVAILABLE ONLINE

ACLS also announced that its latest Newsletter is available in hypertext
form on the its Web site <http://www.acls.org/n44toc.htm>.

The issue, which focuses on a program session on "Internet-Accessible
Scholarly Resources," held at the 1996 ACLS Annual Meeting, includes
articles that address the utility, impact, and implications of digital
text, images, and data for research in the humanities and social sciences.

Contributors include Susan Hockey, Jennifer Trant, Richard Rockwell and
Charles Henry. The Newsletter is introduced by NINCH director, David Green,
moderator of the session, and includes commentary by Willard McCarty of the
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London and editor
of "Humanist" (an electronic discussion group).

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