PACific DATA AWARDED UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES CONVERSION

PACific DATA AWARDED UNIVERSITY OF IOWA LIBRARIES CONVERSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 12, 1998

Contact:  Iris L. Hanney, 717-646-5302; ihanney-kj3SAyJu6V4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Harold Way, 913-327-7557; haroldway-YDxpq3io04c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Pocono Pines, PA - PACific DATA Conversion Corp. (PDCC) has been awarded a
data conversion contract by the University of Iowa Libraries.  The collection
to be converted, "Traveling Culture:  Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth
Century", will become a part of the Library of Congress/Ameritech National
Digital Library Program.

The "Traveling Culture" collection is comprised of 9,600 fliers and
promotional pamphlets as well as business records illuminating the commercial
and financial side of cultural movements.  The collection documents late
nineteenth and early twentieth century American entertainment and education
reflecting changes in popular, commercial, and political culture.

The University of Iowa Libraries will provide the scanned images of this
collection and PDCC will convert the material to machine-readable SGML
following the DTD provided by the Library.

Regarding this conversion, Iris L. Hanney, PDCC Vice-President, Sales &
Marketing said:  "This is an excellent example of the alliance between the
library and outsourcing.  The delicate imaging portion of the conversion will
remain on property, while the data conversion will be shipped to a more cost-
effective location.  It is this teaming in the Library community that will
make many more collections available."

PDCC provides large scale data conversion services to clients in a wide
variety of industries supporting electronic publishing, technical
documentation, litigation support, SGML, XML and HTML formats, including TEI
Lite, EAD and E-Bind DTD's.  PDCC's production facilities in China and the
Philippines provide highly qualified labor resources at competitive rates and
are augmented by project management and telecommunications links in the U.S.
Projects are custom developed for each specific client.  PDCC is a subsidiary
of SPI Technologies, Inc.

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