As you may recall, Indiana University/ Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI) received a grant this fall to test provision of access to the AMICO Library to schools and public libraries in central Indiana.

The grant runs from the fall of 1998 through summer 2000. They have just started recruiting a Project Director for hire in mid-January, have organized Public Library and School Advisory Committees, and are now beginning to prepare for access to the AMICO testbed library this spring.

Initially, the Library will be provided without any guidance, as a test against which data can be gathered. During this period, a selected group of teachers will develop curriculum materials for use with the Library. Another broader group of teachers will be introduced to these materials and further refine them in a summer workshop (June 1999). In the academic year 1999-2000, the Library and curriculum materials will be made available with guidance and support for use in the schools. This usage will also be measured and users will be surveyed for their views towards the end of the project.

AMICO needs to define a license for use in the schools and public libraries. We've been asked to propose terms for this license so that the two project Advisory Committees can discuss them at their meetings in mid-January. We would expect them to have requests for other provisions and that the final drafts would go to Michael Shapiro before being issued as licenses, so the process could take some time.

Once licenses are in place, a group of museum educators from AMICO institutions will be invited to Indianapolis to work meet with the teachers and librarians to brainstorm about uses they might want to encourage and to review plans for the curriculum materials. Tentatively this meeting was scheduled for sometime in April.

We need your input on the terms and conditions that AMICO would expect to propose to IUPUI for the school and public library licenses. Please post your concerns and questions about these kinds of users to the hypernews discussion (using the URL in this message).

Areas to consider include:

* What kinds of uses are allowed?

* What kinds of restrictions should be placed on uses (local copies, distribution, adaptation, etc.)?

* How would access be allowed?

* Where would users have to be?

* Who could have access? List users by class (e.g. teachers, parent vounteers, students, school staff...)

* What uses are prohibited (commercial use, publication, redistribution, fundraising, marketing, promotion, public relations)?

* What policies are required for enforcement?

Please give us your feedback before the holidays. WE'll summarise and prepare a draft to put before the IUPUI advisory committees in mid January.

Thanks!

jennifer and David