COLLEGE GIVEN GRANT TO LINK WITH LIBRARIES.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Calling it a ``grant for the future,'' Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. officials announced that they will receive $100,000 to create a ``model distance library'' service with three other colleges and the Los Angeles County library system. AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C will receive the grant from the GTE GTE General Telephone & Electronics GTE Génie Thermique et Énergie (French) GTE Gas Turbine Engine GTE Global Tropospheric Experiment GTE Geothermal Energy GTE Gas Turbine Efficiency plc (Sweden & USA) Foundation to link the college by computer with California State University, Northridge CSUN offers a variety of programs leading to bachelor's degrees in 61 fields and master's degrees in 42 fields. The university has over 150,000 alumni. It's also home to a summer musical theater/theater program known as TADW (TeenAge Drama Workshop) that leads teenagers through an ; California State University, Dominguez Hills California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) is a campus of the California State University system. It is located in the Los Angeles suburb of Carson, California. ; College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. in Santa Clarita; and the Los Angeles County Public Library system. The idea is to allow a student at one campus to access information at another college. ``It's a grant for the future,'' said Lancaster Mayor Frank Roberts, who helped write the grant application before retiring as a dean from AVC in August. ``In the next four to five years you'll see library collections totally on disc.'' AVC received a $40,000 check Monday to purchase five computers and hardware for the library, establish Internet links and provide training for users. The rest of the grant will be paid out in 1997. ``We particularly like this project because it ties in the latest technical innovations with education,'' said GTE spokesman John Dokken. A consortium of representatives from each of the institutions will determine what type of links they want to create. The goal is to create the model distance library within two years, said AVC President Linda Spink. The model distance library is the latest in a series of projects to improve the offerings of the $5.9 million AVC library, which opened in 1994. In January the state provided $405,000 for books, and later this month the library will become automated, with its card catalog and other information available by computer. ``In six months it will be a very different library,'' Spink said. |
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