http://www.cis.strath.ac.uk/Contrib/JMC/index.html
February 25 1997
Welcome
Introduction
Welcome to the prototype John Muir Centre
(JMC) WWW server.
Latest News
The John Muir Award is being launched nationally in Scotland on February 26th 1997 by Lord Lindsay, Minister for the Environment in Scotland. Julie Moyes, American Consul in Scotland will be one of over 100 guests of honour who will assemble at the Dunbar Leisure Centre, overlooking the castle crags where John Muir played as a boy.
| The main focus of the event will be exhibitions and presentations by students and school children who have pioneered the Award during 1996-97 and who have already received their Discovery Awards for the work they carried out in conserving wild places.
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East Lothian Council Education & Community Services Department are now
responsible for the operation of the John Muir House Birthplace Museum. Their
Museum Service have kindly provided introductory text, images and logos and permission to
use these in the Virtual John Muir Centre.
Coming Soon: A Report on the Millenniun Fund Bid
In preparation is a report on the status of the Millennium Fund bid. In summary, the bid was not listed for detailed appraisal at this time but it is one of only three bids to be placed on the 'reserve' list.
Two of the newest additions to the John Muir Exhibit on the World Wide Web
are the full texts of two of
Muir's books:
The electronic text for
My First Summer in the Sierra
and
Our National Parks
was acquired from the
Library of Congress
Web server
under the
Evolution of the Conservation Movement
section of their American Memory Web site.
Why?
The general aims of the JMC project are to:
- promote a greater appreciation of John Muir as the Scottish
pioneer of nature conservation;
- spread the global conservation philosophy of John Muir's love of
wild land to a local, national and international audience;
- establish a physical centre in Muir's birthplace of Dunbar to
further the above aims.
How?
To pursue the above aims a new charity - called Dunbar's John Muir Association (DJMA) - was
established in July 1994. It now has over 200 members, many from the local community
but a significant proportion from overseas, especially America. Some 10% have joined
due to the Internet. One of the first uses of this WWW service is to act as an archive
for this initiative. Any suggestions for
inclusion would be gratefully received. Background documentation is also available
for your perusal.
What Now?
If this is your first 'visit' please also 'sign' the
Visitor Book and if you'd like to be kept informed
of developments then either make regular return visits or, perhaps, subscribe to the e-mail listserver
set up for this purpose.
You might like to also check out some recent additions to WWW Sites of Related Interest
Acknowledgements
The 'virtual' John Muir Centre is currently hosted on a server in
the Department of Computer Science at
Strathclyde University. The JMC
project team gratefully acknowledges this form of sponsorship.
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John Muir Centre
National Launch of The John Muir Award