Project Development
While much content was adapted "as is" from Western Michigan's tutorial, Searchpath, (and TILT from the University of Texas), the work of adaptation and modification of graphics, logos, local information, and all original material was a initially a volunteer project of Sharon Griffith, Librarian, of Shafer Library, East Central Region of Ivy Tech Community College
of Indiana. Final development was made possible by a Perkins grant. [Development information for Western Michigan's Searchpath: "A Teaching with Technology grant from Western Michigan University provided funding for release time for the author, assistance with coding, and software. Joe Reish and Bettina Meyer lent the support of the University Libraries, as did Maria Perez-Stable."]

Credits
I would like to acknowledge my debt to the Searchpath development team, from whom I borrowed the "guts" of Searchpath for IvyTILT. My primary inspiration was drawn from TILT, which I have been fascinated with for years, but I chose to work from Searchpath because of the 6-module organization, and because Western Michigan uses a similar online catalog to ours, from Voyager Endeavor. I chose to re-insert some TILT material that Searchpath didn't use, and some that even TILT didn't include in their actual tutorial (the Library Squares Flash game). Some information and graphics from IUPUI's inflite was included in Module 2.

The credits from Western Michigan:
"We would like to acknowledge our debt to Judith Arnold and Patricia VanderMeer as pioneers, as well as to the outstanding example of TILT, from which we drew inspiration. TILT’s Open Publication License opened up new possibilities for interactivity in Searchpath.

The librarians and students who are primarily responsible for Searchpath are:

Media Production at WMU created the the Flash pieces for information literacy in Module 1 and where to find indexes (Module 4), as well as the opening page graphic. Special thanks to Sarah Welshman and Joe Hawver, students extraordinaire, who patiently lent themselves to this endeavor. We would also like to acknowledge Brandon Meissner, as well as Aedin Clements, David Isaacson, Patricia VanderMeer, and Laurel Grotzinger for their editing suggestions.

The "Call Numbers" page, is reproduced with the permission of Seattle Community College District Libraries at http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/libraries. Many of the graphics came from TILT, others were created by Elaine Anderson Jayne, Judith Arnold, or come from free clip art collections such as the Action-Links Clip Art Archive and the Northern Illinois University images. Permission was granted by the New Yorker for the use of the "On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog" cartoon. The photo of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Module 6 is courtesy of WMU Archives & Regional History Collections."

IvyTILT ©2003 is a tutorial developed by Ivy Tech East Central Region Libraries incorporating material from TILT, a tutorial developed by the Digital Information Literacy Office for the University of Texas System Digital Library, ©1998-2002, and from Searchpath, a tutorial developed by Western Michigan Unviersity, ©2001-2002. This material may be reproduced, distributed, or incorporated only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the IvyTILT Open Publication License.