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Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in partnership with universities in India and China and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is in the midst of a project to digitize 1 million books. To date over 600,000 volumes have been digitized. Approximately 135,000 volumes are in English. The other volumes are in Chinese, languages of the Indian subcontinent, Arabic, French, and other languages.

The UA project team will identify up to 1000 Arizona Ag Experiment Station (and possibly Ag Extension) documents to be digitized (approximately 25,000 pages). The College of Ag will provide the volumes.All items have been scanned but not returned. We are working with the outsourcing company to retrieve the items now through Jeanne Pfander.

Contains correspondence, memos, reports, speeches, interviews, printed materials, floor books, and related materials relating to the creation, lobby, and eventual passage of legislation creating the Central Arizona Project (CAP), a massive irrigation project designed to bring water from the Colorado River into the interior of Arizona via Phoenix and terminating in Tucson. Correspondents and players include members of Arizona's congressional delegation, Central Arizona Project Association, Arizona politicians, Arizona journalists, and congressional colleagues involved in committees relating to the bill's journey through Congress. Selected index follows inventory.

Located in Miami, Florida’s Little Havana neighborhood, Coral Way Bilingual K-8 Center is the first bilingual public school in the United States, and is currently recognized both nationally and internationally as a model for a two-way, dual language bilingual education. All students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through eighth, regardless of their origin, participate in our dual language bilingual program. Sixty percent of the instructional day is presented in English, while forty percent of the day is taught in Spanish. In both the English and Spanish components, students receive instruction in language arts, science and social studies by teachers proficient in the designated language. The Spanish component teacher teaches mathematics bilingually.