STAFF NEWS
Chris Haley has been appointed Archivist III, Director of Imaging Services (formerly the Photo Lab), and Ben Szoko has been appointed Computer Network Specialist I, working with Betsy in Computer Network Services.
A former archival intern from the summer of 1988, Josh Civin, who went on to study history at Yale, has won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. Josh has also won the Maryland Historical Society's Education Committee Undergraduate Essay Contest as well as its Eisenberg Essay Prize for his article: "The Cost of Joining: The Maryland Abolition Society, Its Successors, and the Meaning of Voluntary Association."
PRESS RELEASE: Maryland Electronic Capital On-Line at the Maryland State Archives
January 9 -- Maryland Electronic Capital (MEC) is still on-line and has moved to a new home at the Maryland State Archives. MEC can be accessed through home computers or at local libraries and other sites with internet access at: www.mec.state.md.us/mec/ or through the Archives' homepage at www.mdarchives.state.md.us
The Maryland Electronic Capital web site is now maintained by the Archives and MEC computers, available for internet access, are now located in the Archives' public search room. The public can visit the Maryland State Archives' search room to use the MEC computers during the times when the Archives is open to the public. According to Dr. Edward C. Papenfuse, Archivist of Maryland: "We want the public to know that all of the services of Maryland Electronic Capital are still available on-line and that no substantive changes will be made to the site until after the design competition. Although the Guest Book has been suspended, the public is welcome to send in comments by e-mail. We welcome visitors to the MEC web site as well as to the Archives to use the MEC computers."
A contest to redesign the MEC homepage is currently underway and the deadline for entries is January 24. The contest offers a first prize of $5,000 and is open to students enrolled in educational institutions in Maryland. Details are available through the MEC homepage.
Maryland Electronic Capital was set up in December 1995 to provide the public with a single internet site for access to state, county, city and community information. MEC is also a location where the public can go to use computers to access the internet. It was established by the Office of Budget and Management under the direction of Major F. Riddick, Jr., Chief of Staff to Governor Parris N. Glendening and was moved to the Archives on January 7 1997.
The move of Maryland Electronic Capital to the Archives consolidates much of the electronic information available to the public about Maryland state government in one place. The Archives' web site, which includes Government Information Services and the Maryland Manual On-Line, is the most comprehensive source of up-to-date information about Maryland state and local government. MEC is the central source for information from state, county and municipal government services for the public. There are also links to businesses in Maryland, community organizations and libraries.
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