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About
the Plant Information Center Project
The Plant
Information Center is a partnership of the North Carolina Botanical
Garden, UNC Herbarium, the UNC School of Information and Library Science,
the McDougle Middle School, and the Orange County Public Library. The current
phase is funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services from October
1999 to September 2001 (see grant proposal
for details). Through the project a web based center is being developed
that links digital images of herbarium specimens, associated data, outreach
programs of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the data base and web
site expertise of the School of Information and Library Science, with a
unique library that is a shared facility of Orange County Public Library
and McDougle Middle School. Central to the project is the development and
employment of a series of applications that facilitate resource discovery,
interactive learning, and contributory opportunities within the PIC system.
Initial testing of PIC is through sixth-grade science curriculum activities
involving plant identification and classification. On a larger scale, PIC
promotes the flow of scientific information to researchers, amateur botanists,
students (elementary through higher education), and other communities interested
in botanical science.
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