Provide an interpretive paragraph or two about the significance of the material that will serve as a guide for the teacher and students. These paragraphs should be focused specifically on the material, rather than vaguely referring to the historical context. Intellectual Access Samples of catalog records and finding aids demonstrate the level and nature of intellectual access to a collection. If not providing full searchable text for textual materials, please discuss how adequate access will be achieved. This is particularily important for long textual works, for which turning through page-images would be inadequate.
Evaluators consider introductory materials a critical component of accessiblity and usability.
Preparing these materials are considered part of the institution's cost-sharing. Technical Matters Collections with great diversity of materials are appealing to all audiences. However diverse formats and genres also present a number of technical difficulties. Explain how users will search across different materials and how you propose to integrate distinctive types of material into the American Memory collections. Such a form may be particularily useful for proposals incorporating a heterogeneous collection of material types.