Develops and maintains a WWW site for the AAL project, Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19th-Century America; works on the project development and its future components; encodes selected materials in SGML/TEI; provides qua lity control and consistency of text-encoding; works with members of the Cataloging Department to catalog electronic resources and to provide access to them through the local OPAC and the OCLC; hires, trains, and supervises several graduate assistants fro m the School of Information and Library Science; promotes AAL digitization initiatives; works with librarians, faculty, and members of the UNC Press to identify appropriate materials for digitization.