EMC Heritage Trust Project Helps Organizations Preserve and Protect Information

HOPKINTON, MA, Mar 18 (MARKET WIRE) --
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure
solutions, today announced that seven organizations will receive EMC Heritage
Trust Project awards totaling $100,000 to protect and improve access to
information in communities around the world. EMC received 325 applications
from 34 countries since announcing the inaugural awards program last May.

"Over the last decade, we've donated more than $20 million to information
heritage
preservation across the globe, including large-scale projects with the
Smithsonian Institution and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum,"
said Joe Tucci, EMC's Chairman, President and CEO. "The EMC Heritage Trust
Project extends this initiative to local communities around the world."

The EMC Information Heritage Initiative was formalized in 2007 to help
preserve and
protect humanity's information heritage and make important historical
documents and cultural artifacts readily accessible via the Internet for
research
and education purposes. In conjunction with this initiative, the EMC
Heritage Trust Project was created to recognize and support any public or
private local organization, institution or individual projects around the world
that
are designed to protect and improve access to invaluable information.

The EMC Heritage Trust Project's distinguished judging committee reviewed
the 325
applications and narrowed them down to 48 finalists. Award recipients were
chosen based on the potential size of the audience that would benefit from
access to this information; the at-risk status of the information and why it
is so urgent to digitize the information; and how beneficial EMC's grant
would be for the overall success of the project. This year's seven winners
include:

-- The Music Library of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra - The EMC
grantwill pay for the hardware and software required for the preservation and
cataloging of one of the oldest and significant music collections in Russia,
making it widely available globally via the Web.

-- Flimmer Film AS - The EMC grant will allow the Norwegian organization to
translate and share over the Web "My Days," an oral history project in which
senior citizens share short, personal narratives from their everyday lives.

-- Center for the Study of Peace and Reconciliation (CsPR) - The EMC grant
will allow the CsPR at Hitotsubashi University's Graduate School of Social
Sciences in Japan to digitize its research materials on peace and
reconciliation and the related issues of conflict, violence, memory and
representation, including audio and video interview tapes, films, research
cards and manuscripts.

-- Chiang Mai University Library - The EMC grant will help Chiang Mai
UniversityLibrary in Thailand to digitize traditional temple manuscripts dating
back to
the 16th century, many on palm-leaf material, tree bark paper and mulberry
paper, as well as 350 microfilms from the 1980s containing the collections of
100 Buddhist temples.

-- Villa Ocampo - The EMC grant will restore, protect and digitize Victoria
Ocampo'sextensive library collection in Argentina, which includes more than
12,000 books
and 1,000 periodicals, as well as letters, photographs and other personal
papers. Victoria Ocampo was a well-known 20th century Latin American cultural
figure who founded and published Sur, the most important literary magazine of
its
time in Latin America.

-- U'mista Cultural Society - The EMC grant will be used for staff and
expenses
necessaryto digitize, document and archive the largest and oldest collection of
Kwakwaka'wakw culture in Europe, held by the Ethnological Museum in
Berlin.The Kwakwaka'wakw (also Kwakiutl) is an indigenous nation of 5,500
people who
live in British Columbia on Vancouver Island.

-- The Edgar Allan Poe Museum - The EMC grant will fund staffing, equipment
and
post-digitization, acid-free storage of materials, to preserve the Richmond,
Virginia, museum's collections of Poe artifacts, manuscripts, family ephemera
and
memorabilia.

"Although Poe always identified himself as a Virginian, his life and works
truly belong to the world," says Katarina Spears, Executive Director at
TheEdgar Allan Poe Museum. "The EMC Heritage Trust Project has given the Poe
Museum the opportunity to make this extremely rare and valuable historic
collection available for research and enjoyment on a global scale while
preserving it for the generations to come. We are thrilled by this
opportunity."

Below is a complete list of EMC Heritage Trust Project finalists. The EMC
Heritage Trust Project will begin accepting nominations for next year's awards
on July 1, 2008. Winners will be announced in May 2009. Program details are
available at www.EMC.com/heritage_trust.

EMC Heritage Trust Project Finalists 2007
Argentina
School of Natural Sciences, State University of Tucuman

Australia
Australian Country Hospitals Heritage Association Inc.
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)/Ballet Russes Digitisation
Project
Sydney Maritime Museum Ltd (Trading as Sydney Heritage Fleet)

Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso National Museum

Canada
AlouetteCanada
Calgary Public Library
Glenbow Museum
Joggins Fossil Institute
King Township Public Library
The Bertrand Russell Archives, William Ready Division of Archives
and Research Collections, McMaster University Library
The Celtic Music Interpretive Centre Society
The University of Prince Edward Island project "A Living Archives"
The Wolfville Historical Society
Trinity Historical Society Inc.

China
Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Denmark
Karlebo Lokalhistoriske Arkiv (Karlebo Archives for Local History)
Kulturhistorisk Museum Randers (Cultural History Museum in
Randers)

Germany
Universitaetsbibliothek (University Library) Johann Christian
Senckenberg

Greece
Foundation of the Hellenic World

India
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

Israel
Yad Tabenkin Archives

Norway
Blaker and Sorum historical society
Halden Public Library
Timbuktu Manuscripts Project: Catalogue Database

Peru
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos/Biblioteca
Central Pedro Zulen

Poland
KARTA Center Foundation/Archival Emergency Service

Spain
Kutxa

United Kingdom
The Freud Museum London

United States
Brigham Young University Library
Framingham Historical Society and Museum
Georgetown University, Joseph Mark Lauinger Library
Gunn Memorial Library
Hopkinton Public Library
Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Rochester Museum & Science Center
Simon Wiesenthal Center Library and Archives
The Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands, NY
The Institute for Arts and Media, Journalism Department, The
Mike Curb College of Arts, Media, and Communication,
California State University
Virginia Historical Society
Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University

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