PUBLIC LAW 105-244—OCT. 7, 1998 112 STAT. 1781 "(3) evaluation of the extent to which programs assisted under this title that address national needs would not otherwise be offered; "(4) comparative studies of the effectiveness of strategies to provide international capabilities at institutions of higher education; "(5) research on more effective methods of providing instruction and achieving competency in foreign languages, area studies, or other international fields; "(6) the development and publication of specialized materials for use in foreign language, area studies, and other international fields, or for training foreign language, area, and other international specicdists; "(7) studies and surveys of the uses of technology in foreign language, area studies, and international studies programs; "(8) studies and evaluations of effective practices in the dissemination of international information, materials, research, teaching strategies, and testing techniques throughout the education community, including elementary and secondary schools; and ^(9) the application of performance tests and standards across all areas of foreign language instruction and classroom use. "(b) ANNUAL REPORT. —The Secretary shall prepare, publish. Publication, and announce an annual report listing the books and research materials produced with assistance under this section. "SEC. 606. TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND COOPERATION FOR 20 USC 1126. FOREIGN INFORMATION ACCESS. "(a) AUTHORITY.— The Secretary is authorized to make grants to institutions of higher education, public or nonprofit private libraries, or consortia of such institutions or libraries, to develop innovative techniques or programs using new electronic technologies to collect, organize, preserve, and widely disseminate information on world regions and countries other th8ui the United States that address our Nation's teaching and research needs in international education and foreign languages. "(b) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES.—Grants under this section may be used— "(1) to facilitate access to or preserve foreign information resources in print or electronic forms; "(2) to develop new means of immediate, full-text document delivery for information and scholarship from abroad; "(3) to develop new means of shared electronic access to international data; "(4) to support collaborative projects of indexing, cataloging, and other means of bibliographic access for scholars to important research materials published or distributed outside the United States; "(5) to develop methods for the wide dissemination of resources written in non-Roman language alphabets; "(6) to assist teachers of less commonly taught leinguages in acquiring, via electronic and other means, materials suitable for classroom use; and "(7) to promote collaborative technology based projects in foreign languages, area studies, and international studies among grant recipients under this title. 59-194O-98 -29:QL3Part2
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