VI. DISSEMINATION

The results of the Virginia Heritage Project will be freely disseminated throughout the world on the Internet. The Virginia Heritage Project will be evaluated both as a separate project and as an important component of the emerging digital libraries at each of the participating VIVA institutions. A detailed report will be submitted to the National Endowment for the Humanities and will be made publicly available as part of the project's web site.

The Virginia Heritage Project will be demonstrated at exhibitions and presentations to at least eight major professional conferences and meetings, for example, the American Library Association Annual Conference (ALA); the Association for the Study of African American Life and History; the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL RBMS pre-conference); the Organization of American Historians; the Southern Historical Association; the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting (SAA); the Virginia Library Association Annual Conference (VLA); the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC).
Papers will be submitted to one or more of the following journals: The American Archivist, LITA's Information Technology and Libraries, Academic and Library Computing, the Journal of Southern History, Smithsonian, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, and Southern Cultures. VIVA and the participating VIVA institutions will publicize the results of the project through news releases, campus publications, electronic bulletin board announcements (for example, Archives, Exlibris, Va-Hist, Diglib listservs) and other announcements targeting researchers both inside and outside of Virginia.

VIVA and the participating VIVA institutions have a considerable stake in making sure the research in this project is successfully carried out and that its results are followed up with further research and development. The participating institutions have pledged the equivalent of four fulltime positions to the project and are committed to assuring the project's success. They will actively seek classroom and research uses for the Virginia Heritage Project both within and beyond their individual institutions. VIVA and the participating VIVA institutions will work towards national acceptance of the Virginia Heritage Project as a model for other statewide cooperative efforts by research libraries to make unique materials widely accessible using state-of-the-art library and information technology.