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This article provides an overview of Volunteer Voices, Tennessee’s statewide digitization program. The authors focus on the three-year Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant that provided the foundation for future growth of the digitization program. In addition to an overview of the content selection, metadata issues, software selection, digital preservation, and K-12 education emphasis of the grant project, the article includes a detailed description of the work done by the digitization and content specialists from across the state who selected and scanned items. The article concludes with a look at post-grant efforts to promote the sustainability of Volunteer Voices.

This article investigates and reports on a citation analysis of self-directed learning literature from 1980-2008. It updates a previous analysis conducted by the University of Tennessee Self-Directed Learning Research Group. Researchers report on the top publications and authors and remark on the influence of self-directed learning scholars over the past three decades. Recommendations for future research in this area also are offered. This research provides another look at the literature and presents information about sources and contributors that have influenced development of the SDL knowledge base. The process that we and our predecessors used to determine which items to consider for analysis necessarily limits the findings. Future research that extends the discussion by looking at SDL literature from other sources, such as proceedings of the International Self-Directed Learning Symposium, the International Journal of Self-Directed Learning, ERIC documents, dissertation abstracts, and other periodicals may provide additional insights