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October 1995, vol. 27, no. 10
"We're on the computer daily on Internet, talking with them, sometimes via microphones and sometimes via e-mail. And we're having a lot of fun here."
"We're a rural school here in Pictou County, Nova Scotia, and now we have access to libraries around the world. The students now have the ability to work hands on."
"We have access to the Library of Congress in Washington and the National Library of Canada...in Ottawa. And we have access to all the information that is there. We can be looking at photographs, we can be looking at diaries of people during the war period, an unbelievable amount of documents we now have access to."
"They have no problems researching the information, retrieving and then using it."
"People have recognized that this is definitely one alternative way of looking at education and other schools in Nova Scotia are going to be hooked up within the year."
--Jim O'Coyne, East Pictou High School history teacher
The Confederation project received media attention in the Globe and Mail ("Stentor Funds Digital Library" by Geoffrey Rowan, April 6) and the Toronto Sun ("Global Library on the `Net" by Linda A. Fox, April 6), and was the subject of a Canadian Press story ("National Library Getting Digital Face-lift", April 5).
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